Sentence examples for as a forerunner of current from inspiring English sources

Both Varèse and Cage had anticipated the electronic medium; Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939) for RCA test records and percussion can well be regarded as a forerunner of current live electronic music.

Ideological interpretations of Pomponazzi (§ 6, "Influence") have led to a misguided view of him as a forerunner of modern currents of thought, a sort of empiricist avant la lettre, whose explanations remain entirely within natural boundaries.

Even I. M. Pei's famous 1978 East Building of the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C., arguably a forerunner of the current trend, succeeds mainly as a spectacular atrium; it does not provide convincing spaces for art, and its taut marble façade is even less relaxed than that of the sumptuous classical gallery beside it.

It was designed to be cooked on a forerunner of the current batch broiler.

He is sometimes cited as a forerunner of the renowned philosopher Benedict de Spinoza.

Art critics and historians regard him as a forerunner of the American modern art movement.

By the mid-20th century, he had become recognized as a forerunner of modern architecture.

He is also regarded by Christians as a forerunner of Christian theology.

A year later, Pfeiffer chased cheap hoods in the cop show "B.A.D. Cats," as a forerunner of action bimbos like Heather Thomas and Heather Locklear.

It is as a rawly expressive misfit that he has been recognised as a forerunner of modern art.

Based on these studies, EADS Astrium proposes a superspectral optical sensor on-board a microsatellite as a forerunner of the further GMES system.