Sentences with phrase «tradition of nineteenth century»

Well aware of all the developments from Post-Impressionism through Cubism, Soutine absorbed their lessons but rejected the language of abstract signs, and chose to develop his art out of the sensually rich tradition of nineteenth century naturalism: Corot, Courbet and their forerunners Rembrandt, Chardin and Goya.
This corresponds to the general principle, made popular in the tradition of nineteenth century German idealism, that self - consciousness occurs in and through other - consciousness.
The varied sources of inspiration in Geleynse's work trace back to the traditions of nineteenth century photography, the mechanical processes behind early discoveries in photography and his own childhood recollections of growing up.

Not exact matches

In the nineteenth - century movement for German unification, the inhabitants of the left bank of the Rhine tended to favor the so - called «Greater German Solution» that called for a de-centralized, subsidiary German nation, which would include Austria and Bohemia, and be under Habsburg leadership, thus continuing the traditions of the Holy Roman Empire.
Thus, to invoke the Russian Church's traditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries requires us to engage in historical reconstruction rather than to nurture beliefs and practices that are ongoing.
It is very difficult to try to understand how an eighteenth - century figure would have reacted to the later struggles of the nineteenth century and how the tradition should be interpreted with integrity in a new age.
Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.
Perhaps it is necessary to admit that the narrative, at least in the grand nineteenth - century tradition of Tolstoy, Austen, and Melville, is not the form for our time.
There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.
The situation changed in the nineteenth century, when Jews tossed God, tradition, and halakhah into the dustbins of history.
After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.
McCoy suggests that Whitehead, too, may have been shaped by biblical ways of thinking: «Indeed, it is highly probable that the process philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries emerged from contexts influenced by the covenantal or federal tradition and thus are in part intellectual progeny of covenantal theology and ethics» (CCE 360).
I will use the generic term «sign» from the semiotic tradition revived by Charles Peirce at the end of the nineteenth century to stand for any object of interpretation.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several waves of Orthodox immigration arrived nearly simultaneously in America, and they brought with them their own traditions, customs and clergy.
Concerns in this vein have of course appeared many times in our own nation's history, from Jefferson's idealized republic of yeoman farmers to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries» southern agrarian tradition.
Rather, her point is that the twentieth century might have been more humane if the ideologues of the nineteenth century had their sledgehammer theories softened, perhaps even overturned, by the twisting, evasive, allusive verbal ambiance of Yiddish, a folk tradition of language that testifies to the uncertainties and fragilities of life.
The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).
I believe the best starting point in the tradition is Catholic thought of the late nineteenth century.
From time to time, poets have taken up this challenge; in the English tradition one thinks especially of the sixteenth - century Sidney and the nineteenth - century Shelley.
In a well - told sketch of our economic and political history, Levin outlines the ways in which our progressive tradition responded to the fragmentation brought on by rapid industrialization and mass immigration in the late nineteenth century.
Furthermore, Christian teaching in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and especially among liberal Protestant theologians, accentuated the anthropocentric tendencies of the Western tradition.
Most Orthodox thinkers operating in a modern framework — a tradition stretching from Samson Raphael Hirsch in the early nineteenth century to David Hartman in the late twentieth century — have engaged in one form or another of cognitive bargaining.
The nineteenth - century Anglican bishop, J. J. Stewart Perowne, who knew this tradition well, wrote about the importance of the Psalter in the life and liturgy of the church through the ages:
Nevertheless, the weight of Christian tradition remained strong through the nineteenth century.
Although the United States by tradition was prevailingly Protestant, at the beginning of the nineteenth century only a small proportion, said to have been about seven in a hundred, were members of churches.
A review of the revivalist tradition in America, however, reveals the similarities of modern television preachers and the earlier manifestations of revivalist preaching during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Throughout the nineteenth century, religiously the United States was prevailingly Protestant in ethos, and of the British tradition.
Such a concept is characteristic of the academic tradition of Western Europe; one might be bold enough to add, characteristic particularly of nineteenth - century Western Europe.
The tradition of the scientific handbook as a concise, accessible source of validated information emerged in the late nineteenth century when the factual burden of scientific and medical subjects began to overwhelm students.
Heritage Park's First Nations» Encampment is where visitors can learn about the culture and traditions of the Plains First Nations during the last half of the nineteenth century.
Nor is that to say anything of the Francophone or German republican traditions through the eighteenth and nineteenth century, in which theorists as different as Fichte and Tocqueville can be located, or of the forms (anti--RRB- colonial republicanism took outside the eastern seaboard of North America.
Morgan sees continuity between the reformed Liberal Party of the late - nineteenth century and Labour — the relationship between those two traditions has been fruitful and supportive but also bitter and destructive, particularly in relation to politics and power.
Warsaw University of Technology WUT is a technical research institution with traditions in education dating back to the nineteenth century.
In the tradition of Cod by Mark Kurlansky, a remarkable book about a long - forgotten historical phenomenon that changed our world — the rise and fall of the natural ice industry in nineteenth - century North America.
Wall has created a unique, seductive and complex pictorial universe by drawing upon philosophy, literature, nineteenth - century painting, Neo-Realist cinema and the traditions of both Conceptual art and documentary photography.
The piece also reflects Bernhardt's interest in the history of textiles and the American tradition of quilt making, more specifically the quilts that have been produced in the African - American hamlet of Gees Bend, Alabama, since the early nineteenth century, and to which her work shares a formal and emotional affinity.
Banewl recalls the work of seventeenth — century Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp, known for his moody, open scenes of cows, as well as that of John Constable and the eighteenth — and nineteenthcentury British pastoral landscape tradition.
The series of prints Tales of Genji I — VI (1998) was created in the nineteenth - century tradition of Japanese ukiyo - e (scenes of the floating world), in which the artist creates the initial painting, and woodcarvers and printers make the final print.
Where an early generation of artists had portrayed the romantic lure of the American Southwest during the nineteenth - century using European Academic painting traditions to represent the environment and inhabitants of the region as exotic, Modern artists took a very different approach.
Taking on the artistic traditions of Western nineteenth century painting, Monkman's appropriations of «New World» painting are meticulous recreations of large - scale, sublime landscapes.
Conscious of the nineteenth - century German tradition of romantic landscape painting, Hütte depends upon compositional and structural devices, whilst refuting its tradition of emotional excess and self - conscious pathos.
Recognized for restoring Carnival celebrations to the classical traditions of the nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries, Schindler has received numerous awards and his work has been included in exhibitions on the history of Mardi Gras.
Consciously locating her work in the tradition of nineteenth - century painters of society and celebrity such as Manet, Peyton uses a loose, sensuous figuration to portray the young, the famous and the glamorous of our times.
Kurland's work draws upon the nineteenth - century landscape tradition of depicting a perfect place.
Susan Vecsey is an artist working in the tradition of Color Field painting and nineteenth - century American Tonalism.
Phillips was also keenly interested in the continuous tradition of documenting land use in the West, from the nineteenth century to the present.
They reflect an interest in nineteenth century romantic painting, in abstract expressionism, in Chinese landscape painting, and in the Chinese tradition of so - called «flung ink painting.»
Katie Haw, director of the Archives of American Art, said in a statement how invaluable these artist talks are: «Artists Talk on Art continues a venerable tradition, extending back to the nineteenth century, of artists gathering in studios and clubs to talk about issues of common concern.»
Drawing from the lushness of nineteenth - century European painting traditions and imbuing them with local specificity, ethereal qualities, and distinctly Iranian elements, these paintings reinvigorate representational art while simultaneously ushering beauty back into contemporary painting.
Saturday Lecture Series: Anarchists at the Beach: The Neo-Impressionists in Normandy 2:00 p.m., C3 Theater Join Dr. Heather MacDonald, The DMA Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, for a discussion of the neo-impressionists» seascapes within the tradition of coastal landscape painting in France during the nineteenth century.
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