In the case of the New York School, that self-described Greatest Generation of midcentury artists, newer histories have moved past the singular, heroic-figure narrative to emphasize the era's inherent collectivism and internationalism, and the presence of women — and not just as wives or lovers.
Ms. Sherry has grouped her choices by six general subjects: portraiture, the nude, clothed figures, narrative, landscape and the built environment, each spanning several decades and numerous styles.
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She has not only mixed together work dating from the 14th to the 20th centuries in stimulating ways, but also sorted them in manageable categories -- the figure, landscape, narrative -- linked through an overriding theme of time.
His purpose, he said, is to build narratives by moving figures around, adding and subtracting elements, establishing physical and psychological relationships.
Oval, lozenge, and rectangular forms suggest stability and protection and often surround vulnerable figures in narrative paintings.
Other leading figures include narrative writer Gottfried Keller, poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, and novelist Robert Walser, and many exemplify the literary critic Karl Schmid's remark that the leitmotiv of 20th-century Swiss literature is "the malaise of a small nation".
With a lack of other credible candidates – Martin O'Malley has struggled to even poll single figures – the narrative of the race for the Democratic nomination has been polarised between Ms Clinton and Mr Sanders.
Animation in fact developed in early cinema in a commercial context through the works of such animators as Émile Cohl in France, Winsor McCay in the United States, and Wladyslaw Aleksandrowicz Starewicz in Russia, the latter animating insect figures in narrative fiction tales.
Uneven wall and ceiling surfaces sported enigmatic scratches, smudges, combinations of dots and grids, as well as drawings and painted figures whose narrative meaning had been rendered unfathomable by the passage of time.
Pages of hand-copied sacred texts were often ornamented with illuminated alphabetic characters incorporated figures and narratives of ingenious complexity and beauty.
