Example sentences of "[is] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hers is the head upon which all ‘ ends of the world are come ’ , and the eyelids are a little weary . |
| 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 | There is the theory of art , and there is aesthetics ; there is writing about artefacts which may or may not be categorised as art , but are in the hands of the archaeologist or the anthropologist ; and there is art appreciation . |
| 34 | Interpretation is the heading which is the most wide-ranging of the three elements , including questions of form or style , but perhaps additionally considering the work 's historical background , and technical , thematic or other questions , including the artist 's biography . |
| 35 | Interpretation is the heading which is the most wide-ranging of the three elements , including questions of form or style , but perhaps additionally considering the work 's historical background , and technical , thematic or other questions , including the artist 's biography . |
| 36 | By ‘ modernity ’ I mean the ephemeral , the fugitive , the contingent , the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable . |
| 37 | The real benefit of reading Baudelaire himself on the art of his contemporaries is the chance of recovering some of the excitement the poet felt . |
| 38 | Which is the greatest of these great men who differ so much from one another ? |
| 39 | He was a successful lecturer , much in demand , and put lectures together to make up books ; certainly a book is the ideal medium for a critic 's extended advocacy of an artist . |
| 40 | He wants to escape to the world of memory-residues , of disconnected images , for that is the world of fantasy , the world of fairy-tales and myths … |
| 41 | The compiler 's main critical medium is the catalogue , and rather less often articles or a book . |
| 42 | To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first . |
| 43 | The medium of an art critic as theoretician is the magazine or journal article , not necessarily in a publication specialising in art . |
| 44 | Deciding where is the beginning can be a trouble for an art historian . |
| 45 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 46 | 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 . ’ |
| 47 | The subject of this study is the disintegration of the Renaissance . |
| 48 | Among recent successes is the notable pelican series , whose titles are varied between civilisations ( say , Japan ) , countries ( say , France , 1500 — 1700 ) , and international themes ( Ars Sacra , about medieval Christendom ) . |
| 49 | The author is the English scholar Arthur Hind . |
| 50 | Another book about the age of Dürer , but on a different topic , is The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany , by Michael Baxandall , published in 1980 . |
| 51 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 52 | A theme where personal psychology is necessarily absent is the Christian subject of the Madonna and Child . |
| 53 | ‘ Saturn is the planet of melancholics , and Renaissance philosophers discovered that the emancipated artists of their time should have the characteristics of the Saturnine temperament ; they were contemplative , meditating , brooding , solitary , creative . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Mercury is the patron of cheerful , lively men of action . |
| 55 | The novel Lust for Life by Irving Stone , published in 1934 , is the most famous of these productions , popularising a vein of interpretation established early in the century by some of Van Gogh 's first advocates , such as the taste-maker Julius Meier-Graefe , who defended Van Gogh in 1906 , and went on to write a book in his praise in 1921 called Vincent . |
| 56 | Another aspect of the matter is the question of scale . |
| 57 | There is the possibility of misinterpretation by the reader . |
| 58 | Is this a king who is the shepherd of his people ? |
| 59 | The ancient , weathered oak is the main motif , a theme as much used and loved by the Romantic poets and painters as the old willow tree . |
| 60 | But one feature of a catalogue of an exhibition for a living artist which is different is the likely inclusion of reminiscences from colleagues and members of the artist 's family , who may make enlightening comments . |