Although Byzantium had an incalculable effect on art in Italy in earlier centuries, by the time of the Italian Renaissance, the flow of influence had reversed.
But it can achieve something more important, to reverse the flow of influence: instead of government responding to people, the electorate become passive recipients of state decisions.
Spread over both the Chinese painting galleries and the Japanese galleries, it traces the flow of influence from one culture to the other.
I understood the normal flow of influence from a father to his children, the way I had introduced mine to jazz and pro football.
The indifferent response to Gainsbourg's death was typical of pop music international relations between the English-speaking world and France, in which the flow of influence has been almost entirely in one direction.
The flow of influence and literary indebtedness between them gradually reverses itself, and Louis begins to claim a deeper interest in Allen's more spontaneous ways of working, though there is little evidence that he applied them.
Basically a collection reinstallation with a novel mix-and-match approach, this show, spread over both the Chinese painting and Japanese galleries, traces the flow of influence from one culture to the other.
The exhibition includes a number of intriguing pairings that show the flow of influence and inspiration between China and Europe, like two statues of the Daoist immortal Lu Dongbin, one made at Jingdezhen and one at Bristol, both dating to the mid-1700s.
Indeed, once we're gone, I actually think the dominant flow of influence will be from Iraq toward Iran — if (and it is still a big if) — Iraq's democracy holds.
As Fujita points out, the relatively open definition of the Kyoto School as such a scholarly and interpersonal "network" has the advantage of highlighting the mutuality of the flow of influence between its members, as well as the fact that "membership" in the unofficial group did not preclude serious disagreement with the thought of Nishida or Tanabe.
