Sentences with phrase «of preceding generations»

Indeed all but Hofmann objected to the term «abstract expressionism,» which, they felt, linked them to the expressionist and abstract artists of preceding generations; by contrast they saw their work as arising out of unique acts of individual introspection.

Jonathan Monk's work often references or employs the strategies of preceding generations of conceptual artists such as John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, Sol Lewitt and Ed Ruscha, and re-contextualises their work with his own personal, often humorous, twist.

Artists have long appropriated the strategies, images, and forms of preceding generations or movements, rephotographing, collaging, upending, adding, or erasing to refresh the old with a new proposition or perspective.

Despite all of that, their attitudes towards abortion are if anything less permissive than those of preceding generations.

Scholarship of a preceding generation commonly characterized classical Old Testament prophetism as strongly anti-cultic.

With characteristic British understatement and with admirable humor (intentional or not), the ghost of the argument for objectivity was firmly laid in the clipped accents of Professor A. S. Peake of the preceding generation of Old Testament scholars, in address to the tale of the flood:

.11 Price urged modernized societies to remember that «the preparation for the next generation should begin early in the life of the preceding generation.»

The 40 Year - Old Virgin is a celebration of abstinence and monogamy and a rejection of sex without love (a favorite activity of the preceding generation).

In 2002, the greater polygon - pushing power of the GameCube allowed Mario to appear on screen in a form more closely resembling the promotional art which had adorned many a box and manual over the course of the preceding generation.

The abstract, geometric objects made by these artists are the antithesis of the extravagantly emotional paintings and sculptures of the abstract expressionist artists of the preceding generation.

Since the earliest times - from the cave artists to the modern painters - artists have enriched the plastic vocabulary and each generation of man has seen through the eyes of the artists of the preceding generation.

Roe Ethridge belongs to a generation which, in both photography and painting, has been able to profit from the achievements of the preceding generation even while liberating itself from the codes against which its predecessors had to struggle.

Not exact matches

By contrast, the generations that preceded them had the attitude that some degree of paying your dues was necessary in order to get ahead.

From one perspective Isabella McCann may exemplify the desires of a new generation: idealistic and committed to changing the world perhaps more so than any generation that preceded it since the late 1960s.

This advice may befuddle generations of guidance counselors with their insistence that love should precede career choices rather than follow them, but Newport isn't the only person challenging the passion orthodoxy.

Even though the current Millennials ages 25 to 32 are better educated than the generations of young adults who preceded them, 14 the survey found only one significant generational difference in the overall perceived value of their education in preparing them for a job and career — some 41 % of Millennials ages 25 to 32, 45 % of Gen Xers and 47 % of Baby Boomers say their schooling was «very useful» in getting them ready to enter the labor force.

In «Slouching Toward Bethlehem,» her famous critique of the Summer of Love, Didion observes the rootless youth of the Haight - Ashbury and attributes their plight to the breakdown of «the game we were playing,» which the preceding generation failed to pass on.

After all it seems to me that Generation Y has, through world travel, through mass education and through sheer amount of leisure time actually faced a greater degree of natural and artistic beauty than any other that has preceded it.

It was a man of my time, writing not about your generation but about the one preceding yours, who said, «The ideal of Independence requires resistance to the herd spirit now so widespread.»

Each generation emerges out of the preceding one.

After a generation or two in which paid quartets, in the better - heeled parishes, praised God weekly as surrogates for the congregation, and professional organizations raised the money for «plant expansion» (all, of course, with a well - oiled unction that would have glazed the eyeballs of St. Paul) it is not surprising that the counsel to stewardship should be preceded, according to some church programs, by an inquisatorial scrutiny of the share of each of the sheep in the gross national product.

It reaches beyond it to 1:18 - 25 which explains the origin of Jesus and his relationship to the preceding generations.

Each conscious occasion prehends the 100 immediately preceding generations of neural occasions as a single nexus.

In this respect every generation begins primitively, has no different task from that of every previous generation, nor does it get further, except in so far as the preceding generation shirked its task and deluded itself.

But as we saw in the preceding chapter, recent science itself has taught us, in a way that earlier generations of theologians were not in a position to see, that nature itself is historical.

The first creation of a national community in America it is now widely recognized, preceded the revolution by a generation or two.

This saying is itself an explication of the preceding verse: «This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Jonah» (Luke 11.29 = Matt.

Furthermore, stars in the most distant galaxies contain heavy chemical elements.53 Therefore, according to the big bang theory, several generations of stars must have preceded those stars.

What Jean - Luc Godard did for «the generation of Marx and Coca - Cola» in the mid-1960s, Wong Kar - wai did for restless Hong Kong youth during the anxious decade that preceded the handoff to China.

Stressing that The Killing was superior to The Asphalt Jungle and that Kubrick was a better director than John Huston, Welles added, «What I see in him is a talent not possessed by the great directors of the generation immediately preceding his, I mean [Nicholas] Ray, [Robert] Aldrich, etc..

We share our basic humanity with a multitude of generations who have preceded us in an array of cultures.

I drove my first - generation Mazda Miata for about 850 miles the three days immediately preceding my time in the SLK250 and also spent some time behind the wheel of an SLK55 AMG on a closed course a few days before that.

Preceding the introduction of the fifth - generation Z33 in 2002, Nissan bought and restored a handful of classic 1970s Z cars, giving them full restorations, and re-selling them through selected dealerships in the late 1990s.

Several concept models preceded the launch of the third - generation IS.

Critical Knowledge: Completely redesigned for 2011New 8 - speed automatic transmissionSupercharged 3.0 - liter V - 6 engineLonger wheelbase increases interior roomNew all - wheel - drive systemNew electric power steeringGreen Facts: Lighter and more fuel efficientGasoline - electric hybrid powerplantAuxiliary 47 - horsepower electric motorAll - electric speeds up to 40 mphUnique hybrid «sailing» technologyIntroduction Originally launched in 2003, the Cayenne sport utility vehicle was a marked departure from the generations of Porsche sports cars that preceded it.

The 2009 Porsche Cayenne continues this tradition of excellence, as the truck has become quicker and more capable than generation which preceded it.

The model's current third generation debuted in 2012, and given the widespread circulation of spy shots that preceded the update announcement, there was little question as to what Hyundai had planned for Chicago.

Due to launch in 2017, the 1 - series sedan will precede the third - generation 1 - series hatchback, boycotting rear - wheel drive in favor of front - wheel drive.

The wind noise level, which was already very low in the preceding generation of the C - Class, has been lowered still further.

Because the MQB platform makes extensive use of ultra lightweight steel, the 2015 Volkswagen Golf is some 30 kg lighter than the preceding generation, while its torsional stiffness has increased by 10 percent — not bad, eh?

The E3 preceded the first - generation 7 Series, which would later build BMW into one of the most important premium automakers in the world.

Changeover at MINI Plant Oxford: while worldwide demand for the new MINI 3 door and the new MINI 5 door launched a few months ago increases continuously, production of two model variants from the preceding generation of the original in the premium small car segment is about to come to an end.

Also of note is the different look and feel of the Sierra inside and out compared to the Silverado, providing better separation between the two models for this generation as compared to the one that preceded it.

Gaskell wrote Cranford to capture the foibles and customs of the generation preceding hers, since social mores and structures were rapidly changing.

The two previous times it printed a three handle, not only were future returns lower, but they preceded major market tops that would define a generation of investors.

-- This type of pedigree is prepared and signed by the breeder and shows the preceding five generations from which the puppy / dog evolved.

These dogs in turn were the result of intensive inbreeding in the preceding 7 generations.

They are no stranger when it comes to reintroducing gems of PlayStation's past for new generations of gamers to experience; their reputation for faithful, beautiful restorations precedes them.

Ultimately, this would become the very first entry in what is known as the «sixth generation» of video game consoles, preceding its rivals, Sony's PlayStation 2 (which was first released on March 4, 2000), Microsoft's original Xbox (first made available on November 15, 2001) and Nintendo's GameCube (first presented for sale on September 14, 2001).

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, known as Adolphe Monticelli, was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists.