Sentence examples for an art devoted from inspiring English sources

Until de Valois, ballet in the West was chiefly an art devoted to the new.

The very phrase "classical music," implying an art devoted exclusively to the past, banishes it into limbo.

From the beginning, the silent cinema was an art devoted to physical risk and to primitive passions, to rage, lust, ambition, and obsession (silence made emotions more extreme in many ways), and it produced obsession in its huge audience.

An art devoted to appetite has as much right to screen immortality as the most austere formal invention.

There is even a genre of art devoted to this often uncharitable impulse of human nature: caricature.

Her statue adds to a small collection of art devoted to prominent black women in the Capitol that includes a bust of Sojourner Truth and a painting of Shirley Chisholm.

In 1995 the Pompidou Centre in Paris staged a show entitled Feminine-Masculine, the Sex of Art, devoted to artistic interpretations of heterosexuality in the 20th century.

She worked with director Klaus Biesenbach to engineer the latest version for Rockaway!, MoMA PS1's annual summer celebration of photogenic, monumental art devoted to rejuvenating the area.

Under the Qing, three types of painting flourished more or less side by side, and the Met show, organized by Maxwell K. Hearn, a curator in the department of Asian art, devotes a section to each.

ALL-IN The Whitney Museum, celebrating the seventy-fifth year of its efforts to cage a chimera called "American art," devotes its five exhibition floors to "Full House," a themed selection of works from its permanent holdings.

By Peter Schjeldahl The Whitney Museum, celebrating the seventy-fifth year of its efforts to cage a chimera called "American art," devotes its five exhibition floors to "Full House," a themed selection of works from its permanent holdings.