Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...isolate. The City has grown so rapidly in the past 60 years that changes in the local habitat could account for many shifts in animal? populations. For example, only 40 years ago, toads, raccoons and foxes ran around some of the city's vacant lots. Undergraduates in the nineteenth century reportedly shot woodcock-a small woodland gamebird-in the area between Harvard Square and the River...
...vireos. Except for the unsprayed area around Fresh Pond Reservoir, none of these warblers and vireos regularly nest here now. Only half a dozen native species next here in any numbers today. The commonest birds-the starlings, English sparrows, and pigeons-were all imported from Europe during the nineteenth century. Insecticides may account for some of this lack of variety...
...country scene on their wall than a stark unacceptable abstract work. Satisfying, but unimaginative representations of American life are bought every day from dimly lit galleries all over the country. And painters like Andrew Wveth continue to see the world with knife-like clarity in a modernizing of the nineteenth century American method. Though many realist painters exist and taste for nineteenth century art prevails over much of the country, today's realism of the traditional sort seems to have run itself out by not recognizing the inevitability of abstract...
...best paintings hang at the end of the exhibition in the last work of the nineteenth century when artists like Eakins, Whistler. Homer and Sargent work with full new techniques of realism. In one haunting canvas by Eakins, surgeons in business suits cut into a man's leg. Scarcely visible in the dark background, a hall of students observe the operation. The quiet bloody hands makes it difficult to stare at this intense description. Sargent has an equally striking work of four girls arranged on a wide space of a dark room. The smallest sits, paused in playing with...
Quite soon after these painters, some American artists reckoned with European art and brought a revolution. Nineteenth century America was too young to worry about more than the facts that could be put on the canvas. Transformation of all parts of American life had to occur before art could break from copying. Once American tradition established itself, visions of an art that would achieve the mastery of Europe twirled in the eyes of Americans. The best recent art in this country goes beyond the cubism of Europe and its abstract inventions...