The Decemberists slip into historical mode, singing about a long-dead barrow boy.
Sweerts's most ambitious painting in the historical mode is "Plague in an Ancient City" (circa 1650), a corpse-strewn scene that, like Nicolas Poussin's "Plague at Ashdod" (1630-31) whinspiredited it, appears to take place in a Roman setting.
It is never tough for John Galliano to find some rarefied new muse from his favorite 1920s period — a free spirit who allows him to riff on an edgy prettiness, topped by Stephen Jones hats and with a walk-on part for himself, in full historical mode.
This historical mode of practice is under threat.
I was in a historical mode at the time, always looking at old monuments and clocks for the book but I also wanted to write something for my kids.
While rarely studied, Sonia's narrative, I argue, is crucial to Tolstoi's overall design in War and Peace: in a novel that explicitly attacks historians as liars, Sonia's fate illustrates Tolstoi's intolerance of the historical mode of thought, what Morson terms "semiotic totalitarianism".
Whatever historical modes stirred him — Expressionism, "primitivism," art brut, Pop — lived anew, for a spell, at his hands, as did the influence of paragons including Picasso, Dubuffet, Pollock, and Twombly.
Ever the bookworm, Ms. Prada took two historical modes — 1960s minimalism and traditional Japanese dress —and collapsed them into shapes that looked completely new.
It is rare for a designer to think in historical modes and, at the same time, in new media, much less to be able to express the dynamic in clothes you can wear.
November 9, 1880 London, England February 8 , 1960London, England Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, (born Nov. 9, 1880, London, Eng. died Feb. 8, 1960, London), English architect who designed numerous public buildings in the eclectic style of simplified historical modes often termed 20th-century traditionalism.
For Mike Hussey, director of Land Securities' London, who was managing the development at the time, that meant an architect working in traditional or classical styles, such as Quinlan Terry, one of the princes' favourite architects, who specialises in building grand houses in historical modes: Ionic, Gothick, Corinthian, Regency, but definitely not "ultra-modern" as Nouvel proposed.
