Sentences with phrase «whose leading theorist»

One of the key modern artists, the influential Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico co-founded the school of Metaphysical Painting («la scuola metafisica») along with Carlo Carra, just after the First World War, and his haunting paintings of deserted Italianate squares had a huge impact on modern art in the 1920s, notably Surrealism - whose leading theorist Andre Breton acknowledged De Chirico's position as the movement's essential pioneer - as well as Magic Realism.

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Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.

An internationally renowned visual artist who has been showing in major museums of modern and contemporary art, and a distinguished thinker, Bracha L. Ettinger is also one of the world's leading theorists in the realm of art and philosophy of aesthetics, ethics, sexual difference and French psychoanalysis and feminism, whose writings have influenced film and literary thinking, queer studies, contemporary aesthetics and ethics, and art history.