Example sentences of "from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Opposite : In April 1985 groups all over Britain get together to take part in a sponsored jailbreak from the Tower of London . |
| 32 | From Germany there is The End of the History of Art ; from Britain a group of essays describe The New Art History ; from the United States has recently come Rethinking Art History : meditations on a coy science ; and from Canada there is a forthright title Art History : its use and abuse . |
| 33 | An example of an artist acting directly as a critic is Bridget Riley , who selected a show of pictures from the collection at the National Gallery in London , in a series called ‘ The Artist 's Eye ’ . |
| 34 | Connections with her own practice as a painter were evident , even though her abstract compositions were very different in subject from the works of her chosen artists , who included Veronese and Poussin . |
| 35 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
| 36 | The internal politics of Surrealism were complicated by rivalries and ideological disputes ; in the case of André Breton 's association with Dali , his earlier support gave way to a denunciation of the artist , who was expelled from the group . |
| 37 | A traditional critic has the advantage of being able to turn to standards and values inherited from the past . |
| 38 | For some art historians , the Renaissance is a new beginning , though medievalists can point out convincingly that no one event divides the Middle Ages from the Renaissance . |
| 39 | In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century . |
| 40 | Vision I call not only optical , but also spiritual realization ; for instance , historical vision issuing from the old sources . ’ |
| 41 | A single-volume history has recently been courageously and skilfully attempted by Hugh Honour and John Fleming , which inevitably suffers from the problem of compression . |
| 42 | Lee makes firm judgements , as in this comment on a cave painting from the seventh century : ‘ The most famous figure at Ajanta is in Cave 1 and has been often described as the ‘ Beautiful Bodhisattva ’ . |
| 43 | the figure is much destroyed from the waist down ; but the noble torso , and especially the head , express that compassion and humility which is the great achievement of Buddhist art . ’ |
| 44 | Does an English liking for watercolour spring from the country 's climate ? |
| 45 | Let us walk with a visitor through the city , a veteran of the Second World War who values it as one which was almost unscathed from the bombing which devastated so many European cities . |
| 46 | He first published a short history at the beginning of the century , but the passage quoted comes from the enlarged edition of 1923 . |
| 47 | European studio practice from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century included the master 's employment of assistants , and the use of specialists for parts of pictures , such as drapery or landscape . |
| 48 | This observation has direct bearing on questions of authenticity , since a detail may be the way that the true can be separated from the false . |
| 49 | One may remove the words ‘ next slide please ’ from the text , but not from the sequences of thought . |
| 50 | One may remove the words ‘ next slide please ’ from the text , but not from the sequences of thought . |
| 51 | Such a frank exclusion from the domain of art is not a solitary instance . |
| 52 | For example , Chadwick states : ‘ There can be no simple category defined as ‘ feminist art history ’ , since the effect of new ideas is that ‘ much recent scholarly writing has shifted attention from the categories ‘ art ’ and ‘ artist ’ to broader issues concerning ideologies of gender , sexuality , and power ’ . |
| 53 | Considerations of illustrations aside , the reader will be hoping for enlightenment from the text . |
| 54 | It is less removed from the ordinary conception of a portrait arrangement . |
| 55 | The equilibrium so consummately achieved results from the counterpoise of a great number of directions . |
| 56 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |
| 57 | The sober intentions of his book were very different from the novels , plays and films which have created a mythical figure in modern culture of the artist as isolated and neglected , recognised only after his death , and whom the phrase ‘ genius and madness are near aligned ’ seems to fit . |
| 58 | From the distance of a century , some of Van Gogh 's enthusiastic appraisals of the art of his time look curious ; but then , this artist acting as a critic was especially vulnerable to admiring art with a moral purpose , or work from which he was able to draw inspiration . |
| 59 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 60 | There was a healthy demand for prints and postcards , which added to his income from the arrangements he had with photographers and agencies . |