Since its inception in 1980, his Houston-based gallery was celebrated for its impressive exhibitions of historical masters as well as contemporary artists.
Instead, they make it clear that Clark was a true innovator, one who might have even more relevance to contemporary artists than the historical masters downstairs.
For this reason, it's been encouraging to see a number of photography shows cropping up that focus on the great historical masters of the photographic still life.
The General's historical spear master Chen Guang is never mentioned.
Starting in earnest in 1970, when Hafez al-Assad grabbed the presidency in a coup, the Alawites, adherents of an offshoot of Shiite Islam, have wrested Syria away from its historical Sunni masters.
Young men and women in I.B. programs are not likely to start on any football or basketball team I can imagine -- they're too busy studying serious historical problems, mastering calculus, working in the lab, or (that scariest prospect for most Americans) learning to speak a foreign language competently.
As the title character in Huo Yuanjia (2006; Fearless), Li portrayed a historical martial arts master of the early 20th century who battles a rival master and foreign fighters.
Although Nietzsche gave a historical genealogy of master and slave morality, he maintained that it was an ahistorical typology of traits present in everyone.
In Tsui's 1991 film Wong Fei-hung (Once Upon a Time in China), Li played his most famous character, the historical martial arts master Wong Fei-hung, who fought against injustice and foreign encroachment at the end of the Qing dynasty.
Only in Hollywood could a tiny, low-budget tale of a little girl named Hushpuppy who lives in the bayou take on a historical epic by master filmmaker Steven Spielberg about the 16th president's struggle to end slavery and the Civil War.
