The phrase "a key work of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an important or significant piece of art, literature, or other creative work.
Example: "The novel '1984' by George Orwell is considered a key work of dystopian literature."
Alternatives: "a significant piece of" or "an important work of".
Charles Burnett's remarkable first feature, "Killer of Sheep"—a key work of U.C.L.A.'s Black Independent Movement was delayed several times before its release, owing to music-clearance issues, but that didn't prevent the launch of a great career.
Best known for his contributions to the study of the geographical distribution of plants, Alphonse wrote Géographie botanique raisonée, 2 vol. (1855), still a key work of phytogeography.
The first film to utilize surrealistic production design in a major way, Caligari is a key work of the Expressionist movement in post-World War I Germany.
Charles Burnett's remarkable first feature, "Killer of Sheep" — a key work of U.C.L.A.'s Black Independent Movement — was delayed several times before its release, owing to music-clearance issues, but that didn't prevent the launch of a great career.
Alongside its usual roster of arthouse favourites and Hollywood oddities, the platform has had exclusive online premieres for a Paul Thomas Anderson documentary, a key work of the contemporary Canadian avant garde (88.88), and now Arabian Nights, the acclaimed three-volume opus from Portugal's Miguel Gomes.
At the time, the book was not published internationally, and it was only available - though it had acquired a reputation as a key work of contemporary Indian literature - in limited print runs at a couple of bookshops in Bombay and, I was told, Pune.
He lent – anonymously – a key work, a portrait of Auerbach's cousin Gerda, to the major retrospective on the artist in 2001.
If there were aspects of his music that regularly touched on some of the century's trends and "isms" - and in a few key works of the late 1940s, he seemed to point the direction in which Boulez, Stockhausen and their contemporaries would lead the avant garde in the following decade - his own development proceeded in a totally individual and fundamentally inimitable fashion.
Published in 1929, its innovative use of literary montage as well as its panoramic portrayal of a modern metropolis have earned it a place among the key works of literary modernism.
In a single generation most of the key works of ancient astronomy became available.
Why do we have only a fragment of this key work here?
