Prior to 1914, Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger ( to a lesser extent ) gained the support of a single committed art dealer in Paris, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who guaranteed them an annual income for the exclusive right to buy their works.

* Prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat, Austrian journalist Georg Stefan Troller ( see German Wikipedia ) interviewed Crumb for a 30-minute documentary entitled Comics und Katerideen on Crumb's life and art, as an episode of Troller's Personenbeschreibung (" Personality account ") documentary format broadcast on German ZDF.

Prior to the outbreak of World War I, Simmel had not been very interested in contemporary history, but rather in looking at the interactions, art and philosophy of his time.

Prior to the 1960s, cartoons were mostly ignored by museums and art galleries.

Prior to her combat with Talbot, he exclaims, " Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee ./ Blood will I draw on thee – thou art a witch –/ And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv ' st " ( 1. 6. 5 – 7 ).

Prior to the establishment of the prize in 2000, Beck's had sponsored several exhibitions of contemporary art in Britain by providing free beer.

Prior to Duccio, Byzantine art was flat, angular, expressionless and lacking three dimensionality.

Prior to iTunes 9. 0, the iTunes Store was delivered using a custom XML format that describes the position of all of the elements, boxes, album art and all of their properties — including whether a reference link can be dragged out of iTunes and into another document.

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Prior to presenting their award, the K Foundation held a private exhibit of a collection of art works entitled Money-A Major Body of Cash.

Prior to 100 there is no surviving art that can be called Christian with absolute certainty.

Prior to 100 Christians may have been constrained by their position as a persecuted group from producing durable works of art.

Prior to this show, there had been no major review of the British glass scene since the 1993 Crafts Council touring exhibition ‘ The Glass Show ’ ( a retrospective of 30 years of studio art glass-see Andrew Brewerton essay in 2004 catalogue ).

Prior art ( also known as state of the art, which also has other meanings, or background art ), in most systems of patent law, constitutes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality.

Prior art must be available in some way to the public, and in many countries, the information needs to be recorded in a fixed form somehow.

Prior art generally does not include unpublished work or mere conversations ( though according to the European Patent Convention, oral disclosures also form prior art — see ).

Prior to the 2006 retransformation, Canada Now was last locally anchored by Susan Pedler with Tony Doucette from a state of the art news studio inside the CBET newsroom.

Prior to the conference, the appearance of the box art on GameStop's product page caused speculation the game would be a launch title.

Prior to the introduction of computers, the state of the art in precision scientific and engineering calculation was the ten-digit, electrically powered, mechanical calculator, such as those manufactured by Friden, Marchant and Monroe.

Illustrations for newspapers and magazines continued a heroic style with perhaps more confidence than painters, and Melton Prior followed British forces around Imperial troublespots for decades, working for the Illustrated London News ; his scenes " helped to establish a style of action draughtsmanship which has left an indelible stamp on the art of the comic strip.

Boggabri is also home to the ' John Prior Multi Purpose Health Service ', a state of the art medical centre named after one of Boggabri's most prominent residents, Order of Australia recipient, Dr John Prior OAM, who served the local community for half a century.

Prior to 1960, in order to provide matching for the minimum ( base ) allotment, State funds had to equal 1954 State funds.

Prior to the featured race, the stewards announced that apprentice James P. Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday.

Prior to the year 1878, all apostolic letters and briefs requiring for their validity the leaden seal were engrossed upon rough parchment and in Gothic characters ( round letters, also called Gallicum and commonly Bollatico, but in Italy today Teutonic ) without lines, or diphthongs, or marks of punctuation.

Prior to the Smartmodem, modems were almost entirely manual in operation, having developed from acoustic couplers that used a traditional telephone for dialling and hanging up.

Prior to that Bernd Kellner computed B < sub > n </ sub > to full precision for n = 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > in December 2002 and Oleksandr Pavlyk for n = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup > with ' Mathematica ' in April 2008.

Prior to 1948, various standards for luminous intensity were in use in a number of countries.

* CPR, in suicide prevention, the three risk signs for suicide: Current plan, Prior Attempts, and Resources

Prior to the standardization of rapid radiosity calculation, some graphic artists used a technique referred to loosely as false radiosity by darkening areas of texture maps corresponding to corners, joints and recesses, and applying them via self-illumination or diffuse mapping for scanline rendering.

Most notably, they traded with the Pittsburgh Pirates for outfielder Kenny Lofton and third baseman Aramis Ramirez, and rode dominant pitching, led by Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, as the Cubs led the division down the stretch.

Prior to 1970, writers only voted for the best pitcher and used a formula of one point per vote.

Prior to Kidd returning to New York City, he learned that he was a wanted pirate, and that several English men-of-war were searching for him.

Prior for it seems quite probable that the shape of the flowers suggested the idea of a glove, and that associated with the name of the botanist Fuchs, who first gave it a botanical name, may have been easily corrupted into foxglove.

Prior to the hiatus, the strip ’ s characters had aged at the tectonically slow rate standard for comic strips.

Prior to World War II, destroyers were light vessels with little endurance for unattended ocean operations ; typically a number of destroyers and a single destroyer tender operated together.

After he completed his studies, Bishop Martin Bazan and Prior Diego d ' Achebes appointed Dominic to the cathedral chapter and he became a regular canon under the Rule of St. Augustine and the Constitutions for the cathedral church of Osma.

In the spring of 1203, Dominic joined Prior Diego on an embassy to Denmark for the monarchy of Spain.

Prior Diego saw immediately one of the paramount reasons for the spread of the unorthodox movement: the representatives of the Holy Church acted and moved with an offensive amount of pomp and ceremony.

As time passed, Prior Diego sanctioned the building of a monastery for girls whose parents had sent them to the care of the Albigensians because their families were too poor to fulfill their basic needs.

Prior to the outbreak of the 1998 – 2000 Eritrean – Ethiopian War, landlocked Ethiopia mainly relied on the seaports of Asseb and Massawa in Eritrea for international trade.

Prior to the modern proliferation of environmental regulation, the doctrines of nuisance ( public or private ), trespass, negligence, and strict liability apportioned harm and assigned liability for activities that today would be considered pollution and likely governed by regulatory regimes.

Prior to the 1996 Australian Grand Prix, an earlier configuration of the current circuit was used for both the 1953 and 1956 Australian Grands Prix.

Prior to his employment with Talleyrand, Carême had become known for his pièces montèes, which were extravagant constructions of pastry and sugar architecture.

Prior to the late 18th century, diners who wished to " dine out " would visit their local guild member's kitchen and have their meal prepared for them.

Prior to the 2002 season, the Marlins traded RHP Matt Clement and RHP Antonio Alfonseca to the Cubs for RHP Julian Tavarez, LHP Dontrelle Willis, RHP Jose Cueto and C Ryan Jorgensen.