Sentences with phrase «reputation as an art form»

It took decades of work from genre masters to build up horror's reputation as an art form.

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These street actions formed the basis of The Mythic Being, an influential work of performance art that helped establish Piper's reputation as provocateur and philosopher.

The gallery has garnered a reputation for supporting artists working across disciplines and with new and challenging forms of creative expression; as well as artists whose work has had a lasting impact on contemporary art and culture.

Along the way they helped transform ceramics» reputation as a strictly traditional, craft - based medium — often regarded as primitive, or assigned to the realm of folk art — into a sophisticated form capable of complex expression.

He was not only at the forefront of establishing a market for this neglected art form; his reputation as an arbiter of artistic taste also provided an impetus for the collection and study of photography by museums and scholars.

If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.