Sentences with phrase «such pivotal figures»

The dependence on such a pivotal figure, has been one of the downfalls of Louis van Gaal's roller coaster of a season.

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Where previous Total War games span the rise and fall of an empire, or the triumphs and failures of a pivotal historical figure, games in the Saga series — such as Thrones of Britannia — will be drawing on specific moments in our history and allowing the player to ask: what if?

Featuring pivotal figures of 20th - and 21st - century art such as Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Bruce Nauman, Alighiero Boetti, Gilbert & George and Maurizio Cattelan, the publication documents a variety of disciplines, exploring the multitude of ways in which artists can feature in — or, indeed, become — the art.

Born in the Ukraine to aristocratic parents, Graham seemed an unlikely figure to be such a pivotal force in American art in the 1920s and 1930s.

Robert and Sonia Delaunay were pivotal figures in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism, challenging the silvered palette of the Cubists with prismatic color that spawned an independent contemporary group of American painters, such as Stanton MacDonald - Wright and Morgan Russell.

A pioneer of photomontage, whose images of women presaged the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Second Wave Feminism half a century later, Hoch was a pivotal figure in Dada, the anti-art movement that outraged conventional opinion in the final years of World War One, working alongside iconic male artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann.

It has grown to include works by many international artists of earlier generations: not only postwar masters like Bacon and Giacometti, but also pivotal figures in the history of twentieth - century art, such as Richard Hamilton, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince and Kurt Schwitters.

Following in the footsteps of pivotal figures of the Harlem renaissance, such as Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, her work is imbedded within the cultural tradition of storytelling that has been central to the survival of African American histories.

The bold sculptures and inventive canvases of this pivotal figure of Post-War Italian Art helped to shape the course of Abstract Art, alongside artists such as Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani who sought to blur the boundaries between the two and three dimensional.

Meanwhile, one of his most recognized bodies of work is his Black Monolith series, which honors friends and pivotal figures with whom he shares an intellectual connection, such as Lawrence, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Barbara Jordan and Amiri Baraka.