Sentences with phrase «pioneering figures like»
Historically, he contends that a truly scientific study of religion first emerged, with great intellectual promise, in the closing years of the 19th century It was shaped by pioneering figures like F. Max Muller in England, C. P. Tiele and P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye in the Netherlands, and Morris Jastrow in the United States.
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But a body of newer work on the apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement of Jesus Christ.
There is some competition from Old Hollywood Glam and Classic Pinup, from Ethereal Futuro - Avant Garde and Effortlessly Chic Parisienne... but the Golden Goddess, healthy and glowing, aligned with other personally powerful figures like the Amazon and the Pioneer, has a voice that speaks to me with purity and directness, nothing lost in translation and everything just as I would have put it myself.
The city provided these artists new platforms for expression and provocation — for example, pioneering artists like Yoko Ono, Shigeko Kubota, and Ay - O were able to contribute further to the burgeoning Fluxus movement, and Shusaku Arakawa and Ushio Shinohara to Neo-Dada, working with and around New York figures like John Cage, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns.
The figures» caricature - like outlines and the works» pastel and candy colours belie the bleakness of their content: burial mounds, swamps full of wine bottles, stumps instead of trees, a lone cottage and isolated, skeletal humans, both Native Americans and white pioneers, seemingly wracked by melancholy, hunger and substance abuse.
Elizabeth Peyton works mostly with small - scale portraits, inspired by the traditional approach to depicting a human figure and personality pioneered by photographers like Felix Nadar and Alfred Stieglitz.
She is regarded as a key figure in postmodern dance and pioneer of Minimal art — she personally likes to describe herself as a «movement artist.»
One of the figures that appears in the play is Jan van der Marck, the founding director of the MCA, and Art by Telephone, which is like this pioneering art exhibition from 1968, is the centerpiece really of one scene.
Essays and interviews with figures like JG Ballard, Richard Prince and Tom Waits alongside pioneering fashion made it the first magazine for men that combined intelligence, luxury and a sense of adventure.
Some Turkish superstars at the fair: The booth of ArtSümer, presenting three local artists — Gözde Ilkin, Onur Gülifdan and Serkan Demir, the magic of it being that each artist is shown each day in a solo presentation; a large painting of Yağiz Özgen at Sanatorium, one of Turkey's few truly contemporary painters; the paper works of Devran Murasoğlu selling like hotcakes at PG Art Gallery, and a drawing of Seza Paker, a pioneering figure in conceptual art, showing at Galerist.
Ed van der Elsken's shot street scenes, sensuous nudes, jazz musicians, outsiders and bohemian figures like Vali Myers, his most legendary subject and the pivotal character in his pioneering semi-fictional photobook, Love on the Left Bank.
Cosmic man, Leo Tolstoy, John Ruskin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Calligraphic Figure, Florence Nightingale, Henry Dunant; Bob Gober's gun bent, twisted in legible profile Like a coat hanger on an old Spindle or Side chair From the Pioneer West with two asymmetrical breasts Actually not that far from René Magritte's «The Survivor,» and Mel Chin's «HOME y SEW 9.»
Though they appear so controlled, paintings like Bilte pioneer their own spatial relationship between figure and ground; colors and forms are just beyond familiarity and some electric charge — like the three flashes of orange brightness here — animates each geometric composition.