Braudel

[ broh-del ]

noun

1. Fer·nand [fe, r, -, nahn], 1902–85, French historian.

Example Sentences

Mike told Adam Shatz in 1997 about the idea for “City of Quartz”: “I had this daydream of Walter Benjamin finally coming to L.A. and sitting in a bar with Fernand Braudel and Friedrich Engels. They decide to write a book about LA and divide it into three projects.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Polska wants her sculptures to merge contradictory imagery powered by humor and melancholy,” Nigel Dunkley, the director of Union Pacific, wrote in an email about “Braudel’s Clocks,” a set of six spinning clock-like sculptures that were developed by layering circular prints on laser cut aluminum and acrylglas.

From New York Times

But she has also created moving sculptures for two solo shows this month focused around the French historian Fernand Braudel’s opposition to the idea that history runs on a linear timeline.

From New York Times

Her London-based gallery, Union Pacific, featured her in a solo show “Braudel’s Clocks” at Frieze London, while from the same body of work her Warsaw-based gallery, Dawid Radziszewski, will be presenting her sculptures in a solo show at Paris+ this week.

From New York Times

But, what happens if we look at changes over a really long interval, one lasting centuries or even millennia, what the great historian Fernand Braudel called the longue durée?

From Slate