“By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.” ArtCultureStudentsProductsCivilizationContemporarySurprisingEgyptRipeCrudeContemporary ArtNile Author:James Henry Breasted
“Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.” WorldHas BeensAmericaFunInfluenceFashionProductsMajorsMessagesContemporaryFactorsAdvertisingConsumersDiscoRediscovery Author:Neil Bogart
“Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.” TodayProductsTerrorismPartnersContemporaryTraditionalGlobalizationAnarchismFanaticismNihilism Author:Jean Baudrillard
“I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.” ResultsProductsTasteAchievementEternalDiscoveryDrivenContemporaryArtisticAppetiteMomentaryInverted Author:Stephen Bayley
“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.” PlaySchoolDifficultAbilityTalentMissingPositionProductsBearsAchievementEuropeBuiltProgramFingersExtraordinaryTechniqueContemporaryHallsDemonstrationPhenomenalPianistCarnegieChristinaEarly LifeRecitalsChromeJuilliardStockhausen Author:Donal Henahan
“The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.” FirstsMayDoeArtStillsIdeasSelfSeemsCreativeClearGreaterCreationProductsDiscoveryFinalsObviousFoolishSignificantStatementsContemporaryMortalsContributionWorks Of ArtEvidentNoveltyEvaluateEvaluationScientific Discovery Author:Carl Rogers
“Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.” Has BeensEndsArtistProcessChurchPracticeProductsPhotographyPursuitContemporaryMediumsCollectivesBroadsEndeavorConceptionVehicleSolitaryPrompts Author:Charlotte Cotton
“I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of the 60s took subjects from consumer products and people - soup cans, comic books, film stars - and elevated them through art, just like in traditional iconography.” PeopleWayArtBookFilmStarsReligiousSubjectsMovementProductsPopsContemporaryTraditionalComicConsumersComic BookSoupIconsFilm StarsIconography Author:Horace Panter
“I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsKindLeftPartyStepsProductsSourceRepublicanNewsValuableContemporaryMainstreamRepublican PartyAffirmingReassuringInsurgencyContemporary Society Author:Sheldon Whitehouse