Venice is also significant to the market because the government agencies and art councils that help pay for the pavilions tend to pick artists they wager will be one day appear in art-history books decisions that lend credibility to the chosen.
The first five installments of the series are something of an art-history and philosophy course.
Two afternoons a week, he logs into an art-history seminar being taught by a grad student in Paris.
And I thought, 'Well, I'm in Florence and there are all these art-history professors, so I should go around and learn about the subject.
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From the elements of mass pictorial communication employed by newspaper ads, comics and art-history tomes text bubbles, flat colors, outlined figures, Benday dots he could make pictures of pictures that were both illustrative and abstract.
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"In Paris we happen to have the most important museums covering almost all of art history--from its earliest origins through the Modernist movement, " Pinault says grandly.
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This perhaps explains why Siena, Florence's rival in many ways, has been treated as an also-ran of art history.
He channel-hops through art history, picking out the most grotesque moments.
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Bridgette Alexander, a Chicago-based expert in 19th-century French art history and philosophical culture, used to hide her TV habit from her scholarly friends like "a rendezvous with a secret lover, " she says.
If you know a lot of facts about a certain field like taxes, accounting, business start-ups, art collections, history or any topic you can think of then you could possibly become a consultant.
But it also redefines and re-evaluates American art and art history and documents the enormous evolution in its acceptance and understanding since the founding of the Met's American Wing in 1924 as a collection of early American rooms saved from demolition.
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Maybe just the advertising of that or maybe, for example, in the classic example we often use is the history of art survey where you go back and look at things, like some of the great pieces - works of art of over our history which probably sometimes do depict naked children.
Herat province borders Iran and boasts a 5, 000-year history known for art and scholarship.
He withdrew to a house in the south to write art history, dismissed anti-German activists with lectures about realism (not a quality that loomed large during any other period of his life) and maintained friendly relations with a ferocious collaborationist, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle.
It had been a few tough days of not really appreciating the art, architecture and history enough -- no matter how many hours I had devoted to museums.
The site combines art history and intriguing mystery using high-resolution images, essays and videos.
The FBI also searched the Worcester home of an ex-convict who has a history of art theft.
The Homestead may no longer (or not yet) be a state-of-the-art property, but its sense of place and history still renders it one of the more appealing resorts on the East Coast.
That emphasis, in turn, has diverted what was already weak-kneed attention to history, literature, art, etc.
Mr Carter hopes to enter a second century of composition with unlimited horizons, an achievement almost without parallel in the history of 20th and 21st-century art.
Glyn received an A in art and design and a B in history AS-level but Es in Welsh and English because he missed the exams to go on Big Brother.
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Miss de Paula Hanika, 19, an art history student at Magdalene College, said the all-male drinking society event was "clearly sexist, misogynistic and completely inappropriate as entertainment for 2013".
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Frank, who came to the catalogue in 1996 from an art history background, found there were many untranslated or out-of-print titles that should have been available to American readers.
At the time, he was studying history of art in Geneva whilst holding down two jobs - in a pub and a petrol station - "to support the car habit".
The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.
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The history of art is filled with visual hoaxes, such as Arcimboldo's 17th-century paintings of vegetables arranged to look like human faces.
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When describing the late medieval era which was her first academic love Ms Rubin draws on the nuances of social and economic history as well as art scholarship to produce a tableau as rich as any old-master crowd scene.
The museum indeed, which makes a number of striking curatorial innovations such as the use of contemporary art and sculpture as settings for prehistoric artefacts, is anything but a one-sided verdict of Scottish history.
The 1998 traveling exhibit, "Art of the Motorcycle, " offered up a century of biking history, from a 1868 Michaux-Perreaux steam-powered machine to a Massimo Tamburini MV Agusta F4 racer.
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