Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book, Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Rosen skillfully refutes these arguments. First, he places atonality and serialism in the context of the anti-naturalist tendencies which pervaded all the arts during the early part of the century. In the visual arts, the cubists and the Expressionists took bold steps toward the liberation of painting from the constraints of perspective and the desire to reproduce nature on canvas. In literature there was a similar movement away from naturalistic fiction to more introspective and fragmented modes. Composers were also motivated by this desire to free their art from natural as well as conventional constraints...
...Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine and chemistry, for instance, was transmitted to it through Arabic versions of Greek texts, which often required drawings of the human body. The Freer show contains several scientific manuscripts. One is a splendidly decorated version of a herbal by the Greek naturalist Dioscorides. Another is a fascinating 14th century manuscript on water clocks, paddle wheels and the like, al-Jazari's Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices...
Matthiessen is a noted explorer and naturalist as well as a novelist. Back in 1967, he sailed on a turtle boat out of Grand Cayman. As thoroughly as possible with words on paper, he has duplicated that experience, creating along the way an uncommonly successful mixture of fact and fiction. Far Tortuga is a treatise on turtling, an account of the dying days of sailing ships on unspoiled waters, and a history of a locale that winter tourists tripping through the Caribbean rarely see. Most memorably, it is a spare adventure tale about simple men driven to the extremities...
...great English naturalist Charles Darwin made "survival of the fittest" part of the language. He also gave his name to the remote capital of Australia's tropical Northern Territory, and all too often the city of Darwin has been subjected to the harsh and literal testing of that phrase. In 1897, a cyclone leveled the cliff-perched port town, killing 28 of its residents. In 1937, it was flattened by another tropical storm. Five years later, Japanese Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, blasted the city with 188 bombers, killing 243 people and wounding...
...Sierras, his close-up studies of wood, rock and plants and sometimes people have been repeatedly and justly praised. The purity, directness and technical excellence of his pictures attest to Adams' belief that "a photograph is made, not taken." Yet there is also a touch of the mystic naturalist in Adams when he notes, "Sometimes, I think, I do get to places just when God is ready to have somebody click the shutter...