Sentences with phrase «twentieth century industrial»

What distinguishes me from other artists working in fiber is my choice to mainly explore and recycle twentieth century industrial materials that have been primarily designed as tapes or films.

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His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.

Tiverton was the more industrial, heading the lace - making industry in the South - West under the industrialist John Heathcoat and his family who provided several MPs for the seat in the nineteenth and twentieth century (David Heathcoat - Amory, the former minister and MP for Wells, is his great - great - grandson).

Frank Gilbreth, is heralded as an efficiency expert within turn - of - the - twentieth - century industrial circles, and apparently learned much about saving time while dealing with raising his large group of children.

Their father, Frank Gilbreth, was heralded as an efficiency expert within turn - of - the - twentieth - century industrial circles, and was portrayed as having learned much about saving time while dealing with raising his large group of children.

Borne out of early twentieth - century anxieties and uncertainties created by an industrial boom, the Precisionism movement merged European formal styles, like Cubism and Futurism, with distinctly American subject matter.

With NEH grants, CUNY Research Foundation held Landmarks Workshops in American History for one hundred community college faculty in 2010 and 2012 on the topic «Along the Shore: The Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront,» which included the history of Coney Island around the turn of the twentieth century.

The last also doubles here as the entry to a climate - controlled container lined with many older coal works, beginning with etchings from the nineteenth century that depict coal mines in the landscape, through paintings and drawings of the Industrial Revolution's coal quarries, and continuing to the twentieth - century photographs by the Bechers of Ruhr Valley mines.

Influenced by European art movements of the early twentieth century, American Modernists including the Precisionist Charles Sheeler and Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb emphasize the industrial, the international, or the psychological through gesture, texture, surface, geometry, shape, form and color.

Alumni from the twentieth and twenty - first centuries include the sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, painters Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Sir Peter Blake and Charles Tunnicliffe, artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin and R. B. Kitaj, fashion designers Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes, industrial designers James Dyson and David Mellor, film directors Tony and Ridley Scott, the designer Thomas Heatherwick, prominent member of the suffragette movement Sylvia Pankhurst, the musician Ian Dury and the actor Alan Rickman.

• 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

And remember warming temperatures globally swung upward — at least my information tells me this — in the first half of the twentieth century before World War II and the post-war industrial boom — and the second half of the century, with all of the industrial activity, didn't global temperatures remain fairly static?

«[E] ven if there had been no industrial revolution and burning of fossil fuels, there would have still been warming through the twentieth century — to at least 1980, and of almost 1 °C.»

Tobacco, and the textile industry alongside it, turned Durham into a thriving industrial town, until health concerns and foreign competition began cutting into profits in the late twentieth century.