Sentences with phrase «vast middle passage»
The exhibition then shifts gear to consider «East Coast Abstraction», where we find Bowling's vast Middle Passage alongside canvases by Sam Gilliam, Jack Whitten and William T. Williams.
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For example, since they all thought the Middle Ages believed the universe was small and cozy, we read the passage in Ptolemy's Almagest where he concludes that the universe is unimaginably vast, and calls the whole earth (which Eratosthenes had accurately measured as about 8,000 miles in diameter) a needle prick compared with the universe; and we read Boethius» Consolation of Philosophy, which popularized this idea; and even a typical sermon that used the idea to show how great God was to have created such an enormous universe.