Sentences with phrase «political vicissitudes»

In his forthcoming essay on Mario Merz's Igloo (1971), Matt Jolly explicates the political vicissitudes of the Arte Povera artist's porous, hemispherical structure that hovers somewhere between sculpture and habitable architecture within the white cube, pointing toward more strident forms of institutional critique following the social upheaval of the late 1960s.

It has long been subject to political vicissitudes: James I dramatically increased the rate of duty from 2d per pound under the late Tudors to 6s 8d, on account of his dislike of the «obnoxious weed».

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The longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend the vicissitudes of political life in favor of a more perfect world permeates Western culture from ancient times to our own, though the responses to it have taken many forms.