For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.

The image to the right was discovered in Sudan, which is the contemporary name for the territory of Nubia during the period in which the artifact was made, during the 4th century BC.

Image: Aegis of Isis-Sudan 300s bc-British Museum-83d40m. JPG | Aegis on an image of Isis from the Nubian culture of the 4th century BC found in contemporary Sudan-British Museum

The Eastern Orthodox view of the origin of icons is generally quite different from that of most secular scholars and from some in contemporary Roman Catholic circles: " The Orthodox Church maintains and teaches that the sacred image has existed from the beginning of Christianity ", Léonid Ouspensky has written.

Basquiat's art utilized a synergy of appropriation, poetry, drawing and painting, which married text and image, abstraction and figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.

The quality of the genuine Salò DVD is inferior by contemporary standards ; most notably, the image has a green tinge.

: knowingly ( A ) uses an interactive computer service to send to a specific person or persons under 18 years of age, or ( B ) uses any interactive computer service to display in a manner available to a person under 18 years of age, any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs.

The only contemporary image of Yaroslav I the Wise, on his seal.

The image of Patrice Lumumba continues to serve as an inspiration in contemporary Congolese politics.

A contemporary image of the battle from the Arch of Constantine, Rome.

Trieste in the 17th century, in a contemporary image by the Carniola n historian Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

The image was praised by contemporary critics and would found Turner's reputation, both as an oil painter and as a painter of maritime scenes.

The image of Theophilos on a contemporary gold solidus ( coin ) | solidus.

No contemporary text or myth survives to attest the original character and nature of Cybele's Phrygian cult but the ubiquity of her Phrygian name, Matar (" Mother "), image and iconography in funerary contexts suggests her as mediator between the " boundaries of the known and unknown ".

Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin throughout the 1970s and developed a compelling image as the charismatic rock-and-roll front man, similar to his contemporary in The Who, singer Roger Daltrey ( who adopted the look in the late 1960s ), Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, and his other fellow contemporary, Jim Morrison of The Doors.

The focus on the " thing " as " thing " ( an attempt at isolating a single image to reveal its essence ) also mirrors contemporary developments in avant-garde art, especially Cubism.

The technology takes advantage of the interlaced video output of contemporary CRT televisions, displaying the left image in the top field and the right image in the bottom field.

She began her career in the contemporary Christian music industry but uncomfortable with that image and industry, she left it behind and rebranded herself as " Sam ", thus transitioning into the mainstream market after meeting producer T-Bone Burnett.

Yet many contemporary psychologists are concerned that the current image is far from acceptable and that the science and profession of psychology continues to suffer because of that image.

Eliade's image in contemporary culture also has political implications.

Probably Delacroix's best known painting, it is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty, equality, and fraternity ; Delacroix was inspired by contemporary events to invoke the romantic image of the spirit of liberty.

The composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ) ( Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1853 – 70 ) and playwright Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) were prominent in their critiques of contemporary civilization and for warnings that accelerating " progress " would lead to the creation of individuals detached from social values and isolated from their fellow men.

Four contemporary critics praise Oxford as a poet and a playwright, three of them within his lifetime:

British playwright Howard Barker has argued strenuously for the rebirth of tragedy in the contemporary theatre, most notably in his volume Arguments for a Theatre.

Puerto Rican playwright, Luis Rafael Sánchez published in 1968 La Pasión según Antígona Pérez, taking the basic premise of the play into a contemporary world, where Creon is the dictator of a fictional Latin American nation, and Antígona and her ' brothers ' are dissident freedom fighters.

Gaius Asinius Pollio ( sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo ) ( Teate Marrucinorum-currently Chieti in Abruzzi 75 BC – AD 4 ) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch.

* Pietro Aretino, author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.

In contemporary theatre, after the playwright, the director is generally the primary visionary, making decisions on the artistic concept and interpretation of the play and its staging.

Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, a poet, playwright, essayist, translator and contemporary to Antiokh Kantemir, also found himself deeply entrenched in Enlightenment conventions in his work with the Russian Academy of Sciences and his groundbreaking translations of French and classical works to the Russian language.

Critics are almost unanimous in saying he was not a good playwright, but his work in bringing Shakespeare to contemporary audiences is notable.

Luckily, as opposed to more than a few contemporary heiresses in search of her particular prince charming, Consuelo Vanderbilt was a great beauty, with a face compelling enough to cause the playwright Sir James Barrie, author of Peter Pan, to write, " I would stand all day in the street to see Consuelo Marlborough get into her carriage.

* Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, contemporary playwright, Shakespeare in Love

John Fletcher ( playwright ) | John Fletcher, influential playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare, attended Corpus Christi College in 1591.

* Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and playwright Charles L. Mee collaborated on a contemporary re-imagining of Cardenio.

D. in polymer chemistry )-famous contemporary Bengali fictionist and playwright, film-maker and former professor of Chemistry at the University of Dhaka

* Roy Williams ( playwright ) ( born 1968 ), contemporary British playwright

* Giuseppe Schirò Di Maggio ( 1944 ), poet, journalist, essayist, playwright and writer, among the most influential and prolific exponents of contemporary Arbëreshë literature.

Williamson's work as a playwright focuses on themes of politics, loyalty and family in contemporary urban Australia, particularly in two of its major cities, Melbourne and Sydney.

* David Ives ( born 1950 ), contemporary American playwright

The playwright August Strindberg, a contemporary of Montelius, held his work in low regard and satirized archaeology and Montelius ' typological work in particular, in his De lycksaliges ö ( published in Svenska öden och äfventyr 1882 ) Montelius and his colleagues are compared to button collectors who typologize buttons in accordance to uses, number of holes, etcetera, founding the science of buttonology ( knappologi ).

Pietro Aretino ( 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556 ) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.

In this role she commissioned and oversaw a range of dramas made or co-produced by the BBC's own drama department, from playwright Arthur Smith's football-based comedy-drama My Summer With Des ( 1998 ) to gritty contemporary dramas such as Warriors ( 1999, starring Matthew Macfadyen ) and traditional BBC literary adaptations in the vein of David Copperfield ( also 1999 ).

David Ives ( Chicago, July 11, 1950 – ) is a contemporary American playwright.