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The early history of photography in Italy was characterized by its international flavor, a mixing of local and foreign practitioners, predilections, and points of view that fostered a flourishing experimentation and exchange.
Beth Saunders
April 1, 2017
The rediscovery of Nimrud and its sculptures was one of the great archaeological events of the nineteenth century, and since that time the site has been recognized as one of the most important in Iraq.
Michael Seymour
November 1, 2016
… some twentieth-century artists engaged letterforms and language in the graphic arts in ways that challenged dominant linguistic codes, as well as cultural, social, and political structures.
Jennifer Farrell
July 1, 2016
Among the most influential and best-known American sculptors of the nineteenth century, Hiram Powers enjoyed international recognition for marbles executed in the prevailing Neoclassical style.
Caroline M. Culp and Thayer Tolles
April 1, 2016
Benton’s mural powerfully promotes the idea of “progress,” predicated on modern technology.
Randall Griffey
September 1, 2014
Steichen’s embrace of editorial and commercial photography in his own work—to Stieglitz’s mind, nothing less than apostasy—drove a still greater wedge between the former mentor and protégé.
Malcolm Daniel
November 1, 2010
Daniel Chester French attained prominence as the leading American monumental sculptor of the early twentieth century.
Thayer Tolles
June 1, 2010
The sharpness and clarity of [Sheeler’s] vision associated him with the group of artists working in a style termed Precisionist.
Jessica Murphy
November 1, 2009
Far more than dry scientific records, Burton’s photographs also inspire a sense of wonder because of his ability to tell a story.
Malcolm Daniel and Catharine H. Roehrig
January 1, 2009
No longer experimental or unreliable but not yet industrialized, photography in the 1850s was still very much a handcrafted medium with technical treatises that provided the foundation of knowledge on which individual photographers could build their experience.
Malcolm Daniel
September 1, 2008