Sentences with phrase «of cultural historian»

No doubt this is an absurd, insane parallel, but I suggest that it makes a certain unconscious sense — all the more so in view of the cultural historian José Ortega y Gasset's famous essay, «The Dehumanization of Art.»

Next, there is a new interview of cultural historian David J. Skal (13:04).

She cites the work of cultural historian Warren Susma, who has traced a shift over the past two centuries from what he calls a culture of character to a culture of personality.

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The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

In his seminal book on play, Homo Ludens, cultural historian Johan Huizinga states, «Play is a function of the living, but it is not susceptible of exact definition either logically, biologically, or aesthetically.

Historians and anthropologists have made us aware of the historical and cultural conditioning of our thought.

Its ideological presuppositions are difficult to specify: the author takes his theoretical framework from the radical historians Charles Beard and William Appleman Williams, but much of his cultural critique of modern American society carries echoes of Pat Buchanan.

Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point of view.

Of course, the influence of religious ideas, practices, and institutions upon society had always intrigued the historians, but it could be assessed better from the time that the organizations of society, to use Dilthey's terminology, were more clearly distinguished from the systems of cultural objectification (law, art, scienceOf course, the influence of religious ideas, practices, and institutions upon society had always intrigued the historians, but it could be assessed better from the time that the organizations of society, to use Dilthey's terminology, were more clearly distinguished from the systems of cultural objectification (law, art, scienceof religious ideas, practices, and institutions upon society had always intrigued the historians, but it could be assessed better from the time that the organizations of society, to use Dilthey's terminology, were more clearly distinguished from the systems of cultural objectification (law, art, scienceof society, to use Dilthey's terminology, were more clearly distinguished from the systems of cultural objectification (law, art, scienceof cultural objectification (law, art, science).

When social historians look for the time when this originally «antiestablishment» world was finally awarded the robes of cultural dominance, they might do well to look to the premieres of these works at the Met.

Historian Stanley Young of the University of Massachusetts - Amherst argues that the cultural and sectional factors are converging in a way that is reversing the historic roles of the two parties.

This requires the mastery and use of the disciplines of the biblical scholar and the historian and the study of psychological, social, and cultural realities.

But as the late Columbia University cultural historian Jacques Barzun (an immigrant from France) used to say, whoever wants to understand the heart and mind of America had better understand baseball.

The historian of religions finds himself in an analogous situation when he deals with archaic symbols that have been modified by cultural influences and events, for example, the World Tree, which in Central Asia and in Siberia received a new value by assimilating the Mesopotamian idea of the seven planetary heavens.

Historians will surely view post-Christian Europe as an extraordinary cultural mix of social development and demographic death, a culture which can both espouse living life to the full and at the same time deny its value and destroy it.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

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February 1: Join Historian Desiree Taylor as she shares the origins of Black History Month and explores its current cultural relevance (Boston)

The book's intellectual range is, tout court, stunning, if occasionally overwhelming: Fascism and Communism, Zionism and nationalism, identity politics and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, current affairs, the role of the historian and the public intellectual.

Written with the help of a friend and Yale historian Timothy Snyder, the book is a dialogue between the two men on the story Judt hoped to tell in his planned book — the intellectual and cultural history of the Twentieth Century.

A team member and Bhutanese historian, Karma Phuntsho of the Shejun Agency for Bhutan's Cultural Documentation and Research in Thimphu, studied original historical texts — including biographies of monks — written in Classical Tibetan.

The outsourcing of routine maintenance to contractors since the 1980s has had severe effects, with repeated delays to urgent repairs, says Andrew Wallace - Hadrill, a social and cultural historian at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Harpending theorizes that the attitudes and customs that distinguish today's humans from those of the past may be more than just cultural, as historians have widely assumed.

«My name is Pamela Long, and I'm a historian of 15th - and 16th - century Europe, of the history of science and technology and cultural history.

Sadly, there are no extras here save for the film's original theatrical trailer and a booklet featuring an in - depth analysis of the film by cultural historian Audie Bock.

Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver Program: Special Presentations Headline: Annie Ha Noel's Take: Someday when cultural historians look back at this era of cinema and television, they'll wonder why we so obsessively documented the lives of upper - middle - class city - dwelling Americans between the ages of 22 and 28.

One day when the pop cultural historians write the history on the advent of serialised (as opposed to standalone) TV in the 2000s they will be sure to note how DVD box sets played a huge role in popularizing those shows.

In a frank and accessible dialogue, Mark Harris, film historian and Vulture columnist, Eric Hynes, critic, journalist, and Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, talk to FILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca about the writers and larger cultural trends (be it the rise of VHS or social media) that have shaped their own approaches to the medium.

She has written a number of education books that conservatives liked, one of them a scathing critique of leftist historians who attacked the public schools as «an instrument of cultural repression.»

Alewitz's mural was unanimously praised and accepted by the Puffin Foundations» officers and the committee of leading historians and cultural figures that oversaw the construction and installation of the Puffin Gallery.

Fifty years from now, cultural historians trying to understand the twilight years of the gas - guzzling SUV will ask themselves a series of questions: What were auto companies thinking when they created enormous cars with enormous engines that were destined for a life of traffic jams?

Gerson, a cultural historian and professor of French studies at New York University, writes unflinchingly of the accident, its immediate aftermath and its effect on him and his family.

This prizewinning historian adds another entry to his prestigious oeuvre with his interpretation of a continent benefiting from a wealth of cultural groups.

Aby M. Warburg (1866 — 1929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth - century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general.

Additionally, there are two titles - including one exclusively created for this bundle - from Doctor Who cultural historian Philip Sandifer, whose very readable work in his TARDIS Eruditorum book series has been lauded as an «incredibly in - depth analysis of the cultural setting and impact of the whole of Doctor Who».

Guelph is a location for a number of notable cultural events, including the Hillside festival, and Downtown Guelph has become something of a mecca for historians with many Victorian buildings dating back more than a century.

Take an orientation tour and then walk the Berlin Wall with a historian, learning about the political, social, and cultural impacts of the wall from the time of its construction to its eventual demolition.

Panorama and Cultural Tour These tours are only available through one guide in this area; he is a qualified historian with a special interest in the Zulu culture and his trips entail a day of unknown in the surrounding rural areas.

The name is taken from the book «Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play - Element in Culture,» by the Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga, who claimed that the act of playing (ludus) is what makes human beings human — and that it predates culture.

She attended cultural events throughout the city regularly when she was growing up, and she later went to college in upstate New York, at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, from which she graduated with a degree in philosophy, minoring in both Greek and art history, in 1951, according to the Dictionary of Art Historians.

Songsong's art is notable primarily as an example of how the world's largest communist state has embraced avant - gardist art as an international marketing tool — a sociological fillip that cultural historians will have a heyday unraveling.

In a catalog essay describing the broader social, cultural and political context of early - 20th - century New York, the historian Max Page sees the Armory Show as emblematic of a distinctively modern process of «creative destruction» in which the new must always obliterate the old.

AUCTION Swann Auction Galleries Oct. 6 African American Fine Art sale features 60 works from the collection of the late Richard A. Long (1927 - 2013), the storied Atlanta - based, scholar and cultural historian.

An accompanying exhibition catalogue, featuring dynamic color plates of the work and scholarly essays by the curators as well as the legendary art historian Barbara Rose, provides the cultural context for Moses's mutational practice.

Wide - ranging and in - depth essays by over 30 contributors, including many of South Africa's leading art historians, cultural commentators and artists, make it an indispensable resource for curators, historians, students and artists.

The film investigates Pratt's architectural and cultural impact through interviews with art and design luminaries such as Margaret Russell, editor in chief, Architectural Digest; Francis Morrone, architectural historian; and Paola Antonelli, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Kat has won many awards for her art including Gold for Best of the Best East End Artist in 2016 and 2017 and The Award of Excellence by Juror Karen Marks, Director of Manhattan's Howard Greenberg Gallery, one of the world's leading photography galleries as well as Juror Dr. Naomi Rosenblum, eminent photographic historian and Juror Jennifer McGregor, Director of Arts and Senior Curator at Wave Hill Cultural Center.

We have high editorial standards — including a strict conflict of interest policy (below)-- and our team is made up of artists, curators, and art historians who thoughtfully examine contemporary arts and art practices where they overlap with cultural and social issues.

Together with the photo historian and cultural writer Gerry Badger, Parr has produced three heavy volumes of photo - books and undoubtedly contributed to giving the photo - book the important position it has today.