A slate of art-historical and 21st-century greats round off the year. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new exhibitions] Reference
Cliché as it must seem, it was the start of another art-historical career. From Wordnik.com. [What are academics for?] Reference
Nobody uses it - it sounds a little uncool, self-conscious and art-historical. From Wordnik.com. [Kris Wilton: Brainly And Statuesque: Interview With Choreography Legend Bill T. Jones] Reference
Ariès argued mainly from art-historical sources rather than medical materials. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
When he took up the challenge there was little art-historical scholarship to consult. From Wordnik.com. [Old Masters, New World] Reference
I also criticize their "conceptual bombast and overwrought art-historical allusions" (p. 84). From Wordnik.com. [Forger's Justice] Reference
Città Nascosta (396-321-6059), which generally take a more historical or art-historical approach. From Wordnik.com. [Underground Rome] Reference
It's fun to be reminded that the best artists often throw at us suggestions of art-historical precedents. From Wordnik.com. [Ordinary Made Extraordinary:] Reference
I do not have an art-historical training, but that has not dulled my success rate, which is considerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
Literary, historical, and art-historical studies of post-Grand Tour travels and responses to primarily Italy. From Wordnik.com. [This Week's Acquisitions] Reference
It cuts sharply against the grain of one of the most widely accepted -- and mistaken -- art-historical narratives. From Wordnik.com. [Make Room for Surprise] Reference
But my favorite item for both utility and art-historical chops is Andres Amaya's 1999 "Chacmuelas" dental-floss holder. From Wordnik.com. [Honfleur Gallery and Mexican Cultural Institute exhibits pit art against design] Reference
The painting's most notable qualities are its large scale and bright colors -- decorator values, not art-historical ones. From Wordnik.com. [Record $106.5 million price bought something besides a Picasso] Reference
Images of ancient art for readers who want to locate Plato's theories of imitation and beauty in an art-historical context. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Aesthetics] Reference
Lesgourges recognized some of the names, but his art-historical knowledge stemmed from only periodic bouts of autodidacticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
As the art-historical world matured, it developed a phobia of the commercial, and Berenson's career certainly had its commercial aspects. From Wordnik.com. [Old Masters, New World] Reference
By any normal art-historical standard, he's a pretty minor figure, especially when compared with most artists given solos at the National Gallery. From Wordnik.com. [Blake Gopnik on the Arcimboldo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art] Reference
Historical conventionalism, a diachronic view, holds that artworks necessarily stand in an art-historical relation to some set of earlier artworks. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Art] Reference
Richter is the oldest artist to make this list (he's 78) and the most established in the art-historical firmament, but he's not content to rest on his laurels. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Top 10 Artist Web Sites] Reference
Maybe, in fact, adopting this alternative terminology would also have helped her to diagnose the roots of her dissatisfaction with current art-historical practice. From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Dutch Painting] Reference
What started in 1999 as a one-man crusade to convince the art world that this is art-historical fact is now a full-blown controversy showing no signs of going away. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
She has also brought to this enterprise the ravening appetite for 'new approaches' that has now become a characteristic feature of professional art-historical writing. From Wordnik.com. [Titian: The Sacred and Profane] Reference
The images from St. Walburg are far less conventional than Sauerländer, with his narrow notion of orthodoxy (religious as well as art-historical), seems willing to allow. From Wordnik.com. ['Nuns As Artists'] Reference
But his idea of acquiring only works of the highest quality and art-historical significance has its drawbacks — perhaps more serious drawbacks than Hirshhorn's prodigality. From Wordnik.com. [Taken for a Ride] Reference
That's part of what makes this show, a serious, art-historical correction, so great. From Wordnik.com. [theartblog] Reference
My earliest performances were parodies of art-historical lectures using the overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Vue Weekly] Reference
Even before his ordination he concerned himself with historical and art-historical matters. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
The Singing Sculpture became an art-historical landmark and bound the two together for life. From Wordnik.com. [Flavorpill New York Events] Reference
SW: Do you see yourself as working within an art-historical tradition of architectural painting?. From Wordnik.com. [Personism] Reference
Photography and Egypt:. .does not even try to jam its subject into an elegant or orderly art-historical narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Feed for Arabist.net] Reference
The show is too small for any kind of comprehensive overview of American watercolors or grand art-historical statement. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local]
"This has immense art-historical importance, reflecting a synthesis of Hellenistic-Roman cultural influences," he added. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Science] Reference
While Olivier surprises with this hybrid form, he also puts a sly spin on art-historical themes through his handling of subjects. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
An overlooked art-historical era gets clearer focus in "Breathless Days 1959-1960," an exhibition and program currently on in Vancouver. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Art - Online] Reference
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