Sentences with phrase «twentieth century class»

The first is that the old, twentieth century class divide has largely disappeared.

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Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity led him to paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.

The first half of Grand New Party is a retelling of twentieth - century American political history, all from the perspective of middle - class families.

The essays gathered in The Twilight of the Intellectuals, most of which were first published in the New Criterion, constitute a mordant retrospective on what Julien Benda early in the twentieth century called la trahison des clercs — the treason committed by modern intellectuals (who were mostly middle - class writers, scholars, and artists) against the principles and institutions that had nurtured them.

As scholar Georg Bassmann (in German Art of the Twentieth Century) persuasively contends, had Hitler and Goebbels looked favorably on modern art, their support of it could have provided Nazism a bridge to the «liberal educated middle class.»

Set in the Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church at the dawn of the twentieth century, Altman's film centers on the relationship between wayward gambler John McCabe (Beatty) and cockney brothel madam Constance Miller (Christie), who partner up to provide the town with a high - class whorehouse.

When Twentieth Century Fox and producer Lauren Shuler Donner brought director Bryan Singer back into the X-Men film universe with X-Men: First Class - a movie Singer was originally set to direct - little did we know that the man behind the first two X-Men films would end up working on an entire new trilogy of series installments.

Twentieth Century Fox has debuted a new image of Michael Fassbender and Jams McAvoy in X-Men: First Class, courtesy of the movie's Facebook page.

X-Men 1 & 2 director Bryan Singer had the opportunity to return to the series» director's chair and re-team with Twentieth Century Fox and X-Men franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner a few years ago when development first began on a prequel titled X-Men: First Class.

Ethan, a tenth grader at Jenkins High School who is in the production, says that since he began playing Marcus Garvey — an early - twentieth - century activist who inspired many U.S. civil rights leaders — he has started to see the civil rights movement pop up everywhere: on television, in conversations, even in class.

The little - known story of a self - taught prodigy and world - class trombone player, composer, and arranger whose music mirrors the black musical sounds of the twentieth century.

This son of Italian middle - class immigrants was a child, too, of turbulent twentieth - century Argentina, the story of which Ivereigh makes the vital and complicated backdrop to his subject's career.

It is at once a vivid portrait of an alluring, late - nineteenth / early - twentieth - century world; a front - row seat to a world - class magic show; and an unexpected love story.

«In the early twentieth century the general public often linked portraiture to flattering transcription and middle - class values; the genre provided strict, longstanding conventions that some modernist artists chose to bend or break,» said Walz.

: Catalogue of the Exhibition, provides a thorough representation of Russian art from the twelfth century to today — including pieces from the world - class collections amassed by Russian tsars and merchants from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Tradition and Transformation: Twentieth Century Inuit Art from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Gene Y. Kin Class of 1985 Gallery, Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 22, 2014 - December 6, 2015.

This exhibition presents a collaborative effort between artists and the School of the Art Institute's Defining Twentieth Century Dress class.

«Hopper's paintings reflect a changing society: they depict the quality of life and the existence of the middle class growing in the first half of the twentieth century.

Tate Modern will also present the work of a central figure in twentieth - century Indian painting, Bhupen Khakhar, who combines popular and painterly aesthetics to address issues of class, gender and sexuality with sensitivity and humour.

The class was exposed to the vast richness of Dutch art history, from seventeenth - century Golden Age to the development of twentieth - century modernism.

Once that scale of measure has been established, the elite classes of society can no longer deny the populist cultural impact, refined intellectual value, and large economic rewards created by the influence of Graffiti and Street Art, which finally can be classified as the two most prevalent styles and art movements of the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuries.