Example sentences of "at the " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ Begin at the beginning , ’ the King said gravely , ‘ and go on till you come to the end : then stop . ’ ? |
| 62 | One of the best was made out of lectures at the École du Louvre by the French historian Salomon Reinach , first published in English in 1904 ( with 600 illustrations ) . |
| 63 | The Story of Art highlights change and development , sadly at the expense of art which is less varied , of however high a quality . |
| 64 | Wölflinn was trying to isolate a visual denominator which , he claimed , was common to all works produced at the same time . |
| 65 | It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’ |
| 66 | He starts at a medieval Gothic window , a remnant of the first university in central Europe ( founded 1348 ) ; he pauses at the rebuilt Bethlehem Chapel , the site of where the Mass was first allowed in Czech , and Jan Hus preached before being burnt for heresy in 1413 ; he pays respects to the relics of the Jewish quarter with its ancient and crowded graveyard ; to cross the river he uses the Charles Bridge , lined with Baroque statues ( many between 1700 and 1720 ) , and climbs the hill to the Castle where art and architecture of all periods again further embellish the golden city of central Europe . |
| 67 | In the evening our friend has supper in the art nouveau interior of the Hotel Europe , before going to a performance at the National Theatre , built in the 1880s as a monument to the Czech national spirit , pinioned under the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 68 | He first published a short history at the beginning of the century , but the passage quoted comes from the enlarged edition of 1923 . |
| 69 | First the hard heartwood was removed , making the intended figure hollow at the back ; the sculptor avoided solid masses , unstable in wood ( though preferred by sculptors in a material like sandstone ) ; finally in the carving , forms were decided partly to avoid the hazards of the sapwood shrinking and splitting . |
| 70 | William J. Ivins was curator of prints at the Metropolitan Museum from 1916 to 1946 . |
| 71 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 72 | The reader with a love of art is not always at the front of a publisher 's attention . |
| 73 | At the end of the twentieth century , at least some colour illustrations are likely to find places in a monograph . |
| 74 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 75 | Another point is also made explicitly. : his difficulty is assessing Cézanne 's work at the end of the century . |
| 76 | This not an invariable pattern for monographs , but readers can usually expect that the central figure of a book will receive prominence at the expense of any other artists . |
| 77 | What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise . |
| 78 | Here is an American artist writing about his dismay at the work he saw at Paris in 1831 : |
| 79 | The catalogue as a whole is thus a document in the history of taste , a historical account , and at the same time contains some art criticism , not always explicit in evaluating the works shown . |
| 80 | In 1904 Sidney Colvin was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum . |
| 81 | Giacometti was an artist with very different artistic aims , clearly expounded by Valerie J. Fletcher in a catalogue for an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington , in 1988 . |
| 82 | Difficulties can be many , at the top of the list being the number of items to be catalogued . |
| 83 | To look at the work of an art critic in this way we have to turn to historians of taste for the past and to journalists for the present . |
| 84 | Let us look at the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 85 | In 1971 he was asked to organise , at the Tate Gallery , an exhibition which he called The Essential Cubism . |
| 86 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 87 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
| 88 | At the end of the twentieth century group exhibitions perhaps do not have the importance that they have had earlier in the century . |
| 89 | Forty-three works by fourteen painters were shown in 1911 at the ‘ First Exhibition by the Editorial Board of The Blue Rider ’ , the publication concerned being an almanac which appeared in 1912 with a drawing of a horseman by Kandinsky on the cover . |
| 90 | What was perhaps most crucial to the success of Impressionism in financial terms was its modern stance , as closely identified with contemporary life at the turn of the century as Romanticism had been fifty years before . |