Sentences with phrase «twentieth century french»

In 1938, Bourgeois opened an art gallery, specializing in works on paper by nineteenth and twentieth century French masters.

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• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

The late French historian François Furet's magisterial 1995 book on communism and the drama of the twentieth century, The Passing of an Illusion, devoted a long footnote to German historian Ernst Nolte's controversial interpretation of European fascism.

While some of this is fair comment, such de haut en bas defense would convince more if Dinshaw showed a firmer grasp on the historiographical context of Runciman's work, not least his reliance on French scholarship of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The importance of the medieval thinkers Buridan and Oresme for science had been rediscovered by the great twentieth - century French physicist Pierre Duhem, whose own work Jaki has done so much to restore to the prominence it deserves.

The twentieth century experienced the lethal consequences of the political madnesses set loose in the world by the French Revolution.

From the French Huguenots of the seventeenth century to the African - Caribbean and Asian migrants of the twentieth, to the Poles and New Yorkers of today, Britain is a country whose economy and society have benefitted enormously from immigration.

Twentieth Century Fox has premiered a U.K. banner and French poster for the Matthew Vaughn - directed film that's an improvement on anything it's released previously.

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French artist Caroline Achaintre's visually striking, witty ceramic sculptures and hand - tufted wall hangings bring together a whole host of references such as catwalk fashion, carnival, and death - metal iconography, as well as Primitivism and Expressionism — early twentieth - century Western art movements that borrowed heavily from non-Western and prehistoric imagery to find new ways of representing the modern world.

with text by Yve - Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, in French) Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Joshua Dechter) Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House: Exhibition IV, The Jaqueline Kennedy Garden, The White House, Washington D.C., USA (curated by Marcia Tucker and Hillary Rodham Clinton) Bringing It All Back Home, Gracie Mansion / Fred Dorfman Projects, New York, USA Small Truths: Repetition and the Obsessional in Contemporary Art, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, England (cat.

Traveled to Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (February 12 — May 11, 2008) Be — Bomb: The Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz in the 1950s, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain (October 5, 2007 — January 7, 2008) Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (September 29, 2007 — January 6, 2008) Twentieth - Century American Women Artists from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Gallery at the Park Avenue Bank, New York, New York (September 17 — November 2) Americans in Paris: Abstract Painting in the Fifties, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (July 16 — September 29) French Kiss, JGM Galerie, Paris, France (May 25 — July 13) When Art Worlds Collide: The 60s, Woodward Gallery, New York (May 17 — July 14) An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (April 20 — July 29) Gestes, Signes, Traces, Espaces: Figures de la peinture moderne française dans les collections publiques normandes, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France (February 17 — April 30).

On view are more than eighty sheets by French, British, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and German draftsmen from the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries.

A French - American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work has been associated with Dadaism and many other avant - garde movements, Marcel Duchamp is commonly considered as one of the artists who helped define the revolutionary developments in plastic arts in the begining of the twentieth century.

Etta and Claribel Cone were ardent and early patrons of the French avant - garde, meeting Matisse, Pablo Picasso and other artists during their trips to Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century.

The early part of the collection features French and Russian art from the beginning of the twentieth century, cubist paintings and superb holdings of expressionist and modern British art.

Our modern notion of collaging, or papier - collé (French for glued or stuck paper), was ignited in the early twentieth century by artists such as Pablo Picasso (1881 — 1973) and Georges Braque (1882 — 1963), who incorporated various text, photographs, found objects, and paper into works of art, resulting in an entirely new medium.

His work helped shape the aesthetics of French art at the turn of the twentieth century and formed the cornerstone of the international Art Nouveau movement.

Phil Space: Shelley Horton - Trippe, in her recent exhibition High Brow Low Ride, references the great twentieth - century French writer Colette, and she does this by way of a large painting titled The Pure and the Impure (Colette).

Highlights of the European art collection include English genre painting of the nineteenth - century as well as examples of French post-Impressionistic painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Henri Matisse was a legendary French painter, sculptor, and printmaker - all in all, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

Richard Saltoun Gallery presents one of the most influential experimental sound and performance artists of the twentieth century, Anglo - French artist...

One of the most innovative and radical French artists of the second half of the twentieth century, Robert Filliou has opened up endless possibilities for the medium of sculpture through his performative approaches and use of chance, wit and play.

A controversial figure on the Anglo - French art scene at the turn of the twentieth century, Wynford Dewhurst is most famous for his 1908 work The Picnic, in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.

This course surveys Western art from the French Revolution to the turn of the twentieth century.

• For biographies of other French abstract artists, see: Twentieth Century Painters.

Frédéric Brenner (b. 1959) is a French photographer best known for his opus Diaspora, the result of a twenty - five year search in over forty countries to create a visual record of the Jewish Diaspora at the end of the twentieth century.

Gillo Pontecorvo's ground - breaking documentary style film The Battle of Algiers (1965) is shown alongside the work of lesser known twentieth - century figures, such as French psychiatrist and photographer Gaëtan de Clérambault and the French military photographer of the Algerian War, Marc Garanger.

From Edvard Munch to Chris Ofili, French painter Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) has exerted a profound influence on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Richard Saltoun Gallery presents one of the most influential experimental sound and performance artists of the twentieth century, Anglo - French artist Henri Chopin.

One of the most influential experimental sound and performance artists of the twentieth century, Anglo - French artist Henri Chopin launched his...

One of the most influential experimental sound and performance artists of the twentieth century, Anglo - French artist Henri Chopin launched his career in Paris at the close of the second world war.

Modern Masters: Corot to Monet — French Landscape Painting In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Date: 1910 Size: 30 x 43 inches About The Poster: Chanabier and Sons was a French company who, in the early twentieth century, produced French liqueur such as the digestif advertized in this poster.

• Introduction • Advent of Realism • 1848 Revolution - Industrial Developments - Rise in Expectations • Classicism • Romanticism • Transition towards Realism via Landscape Painting • Decline of Individualism • Facts versus Imagination • Origins of Objectivity and Realist Aesthetics • French Impressionism - the Ultimate Form of Realism • Variants of Impressionism • Different Meanings of Realism • Twentieth Century Developments in Realism

His canvases are populated with dramatic images lifted from sources as various as Salle's own black - and - white photographs, eighteenth - through twentieth - century French and American painting, 1950s print advertising and how - to - draw manuals.

One of the great innovators in twentieth - century painting, Robert Delaunay was a French artist who successfully anticipated many of the current trends in art.