A look at how events in the social and professional life of the writer and his contemporaries mirror the history of the city.
Yet many of the Modern and contemporary standouts mirror the naturalism of the old master works.
This conjoining of traditional and contemporary is mirrored in the restaurant's small, locally sourced dinner menu.
"Horror stories increasingly mirror contemporary ills," says Hideki Sato, the editor of Kadokawa Horror Novels which published the "Ring" series.
"She's a Middle Eastern designer interpreting her cultural past through new material and processes," said Ms. Levent, who singled out a "very contemporary" Arabian Nights mirror that cleverly replaced the traditional mother-of-pearl inlay with resin and brass.
When I started in the industry, there were no contemporary, high end mirror companies in the industry as it was such a specialized category of product.
"The work for teenage audiences," she said, "especially in Scandinavia, mirrors contemporary life.
Together with novelists and short-story writers such as Tegla Davies, T. Rowland Hughes, Kate Roberts, and D.J. Williams, they effectively mirrored contemporary Wales.
Dancers and prostitutes also begin to appear as subjects for sculptures by Carabin, Carpeaux and others, mirroring contemporary paintings and prints by Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas.
Burchill might be able to 'write the backside off her contemporaries' (copyright the Mirror ) journalistically, but this is a bogus and horribly cynical book.
More importantly for our purposes, Lowell managed to turn his madness to account, creating a poetry that looks and feels harshly contemporary because it mirrors our "age of anxiety", as Auden called it.
