Sentence examples for influential movements from inspiring English sources

Also offering advice were veterans Haile Gerima and Julie Dash, who cut their teeth during the 1970s "LA Rebellion", one of the most important and influential movements in black cinema history.

THE election of a new leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world's most influential movements, has aroused an oddly muted response, not just from the group's critics but from fellow-travelling Islamists as well.

Young said the homogenisation of culture in the last four to five years had led to the dissipation of subcultures which in the past had pioneered some of the most interesting and influential movements that had affected British culture in recent decades.

By the time of his 1948 one-man show at the Leicester Galleries in London, Scott stood apart from two influential movements in the British art scene – the neo-Romanticism of Graham Sutherland and the "rather drab and provincial" Euston Road school.

Despite the resurgence of "traditional" image-based work in the 1980s, conceptual art has been described as one of the most influential movements of the late 20th century, a logical extension of the work begun by the French artist Marcel Duchamp in 1914 to break the primacy of the perceptual in art.

It grew to become one of the most influential movements worldwide.

In practice, permaculture is a growing and influential movement that runs deep beneath sustainable farming and urban food gardening.

Thane Rosenbaum is a member of the small but influential movement of second-generation Holocaust writers, the children of survivors.

The formalistic devices of Hermeticism were partly an outgrowth of Futurism, a short-lived but influential movement that encouraged innovation in literary language and content.

Harlem Renaissance, a blossoming (c. 1918 37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history.

Ms. Rainer is now a filmmaker, and Mr. Paxton went on to develop contact improvisation, a highly influential movement technique used widely by dancers today.