noun
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An exhibition of works from an extended period of an artist's activity.
adjective
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Of, relating to, or contemplating the past.
definition
Looking backwards.
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Affecting or influencing past things; retroactive.
Examples of retrospective in a Sentence
The retrospective exhibition of means of transport was interesting in view of the recent opening of the Simplon tunnel, the occasion of the exhibition.
The prose works touch on retrospective topics or deal with subjects of deep meditation.
This retrospective tendency was favourably regarded by the government.
He published Something of Men I have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical and Retrospective (1909).
The process of retrospective review has produced positive results.
The Council will receive a retrospective rebate of 5% payable on the expenditure made with effect from 1 January, 2006.
In 1985, the National Portrait Gallery staged a major retrospective.
No records are too old to be affected it is fully retrospective.
A 10-year retrospective study of patients who underwent initial thyroidectomy for PTC from 1986 to 1996 was completed.
To explain his Mahratta policy, it will be necessary to give a short retrospective sketch of the history of that people.
In spring, a CD retrospective of his music, Six Of Hearts, was released.
After more than a decade I encountered the work again, in a retrospective of the late artist 's work.
A retrospective of works by Leonard McComb RA runs from 27th September to 20th October.
Next time you 're reading a retrospective look at it with the opinion of smug superiority.
In 2004, a 90-minute retrospective aired on CBS featuring a return of many original cast members to Southfork Ranch (a real place), located in Parker, Texas.
Mortality among rats is said to precede the appearance of human plague, but the evidence of this is always retrospective and of a very loose character.
However, please note that any offer of additional or retrospective ERDF grant is strictly conditional.
The Barbican, London will be holding the first retrospective of her work in September 2005.
These warnings received minimal, and in some cases only retrospective, coverage from the media.
She has exhibited at numerous places including a retrospective of her photography at the North East 's prestigious Zone Gallery.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of Stuart 's work.
The festival will also show a complete retrospective of fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber 's work.
Retrospective approval was granted for the advertisement at a reduced cost of £ 250.
A portion of each monthly sample is stored frozen, should retrospective analysis be required.
Now, with one brilliant exception - the story of the swimming-match, which is felicitously introduced and finely told - these retrospective passages are brought in more or less awkwardly, interrupt inconveniently the course of the narrative, and are too condensed and allusive in style to make any strong poetic impression.
They are also preparing a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for funding for retrospective conversion of the existing card catalogs.
A retrospective exhibition of his work was held in 1981 at the Malone Gallery in Belfast.
Using both retrospective and prospective data we then explore the relationship between human isolates and those identified from cattle and retail poultry.
In 1989, the Wiener Secession presented a retrospective of his works on paper.
It is this intention that links their works across the decades and which in turn transforms this exhibition into a museum quality retrospective.
Next time you're reading a retrospective look at it with the opinion of smug superiority.
Sometimes, too, when a great dramatic climax has given place to a lyrical anticlimax, retrospective moods, subtleties of emotion and crowning musical thoughts press in upon Wagner's mind with a closeness that determines every word; and thus not only is the whole third act of Tristan, as Wagner said when he was working at it, of " overwhelming tragic power," but Isolde's dying utterances (which occupy the last five minutes and are, of course, totally without action or dramatic tension) were not unlike fine poetry even before the music was written.
Apart from the two functions of discerning between right and wrong, and actively predisposing the agent to moral action, conscience has further a retrospective action whereby remorse falls upon the man who recognizes that he has broken a moral law.
In 1886 the Left, having no constitutional means of dismissing the Estrup ministry, resorted for the first time to negotiations; but it was not till the 1st of April 1894 that the majority of the Folketing could arrive at an agreement with the government and the Landsting as to a budget which should be retrospective and sanction the employment of the funds so irregularly obtained for military expenditure.
Their interest on the formal side is retrospective, but it is possible to find even in the persistent reiteration of medieval sentiment and methods, a fresh feeling for nature, and a lyrical quality of later timbre.
Such was the formula of the Eternal Gospel, which, as an unconscious forecast of the Renaissance, has attracted retrospective students by its felicity of adaptation to their historical method.
He organized the famous Exposition Retrospective held at the Petit Palais in 1900, and published a number of expert volumes on enamels, ceramics and furniture.
Some retrospective conversion of data generated on the older version of the database may also have occurred.
Now, with the release of a terrific retrospective, she is ripe for rediscovery.
In the Eighties he won the ' turner prize, represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and had a retrospective at the Hayward.
Nearing their ten-year anniversary, the band presently has a DVD in the works that will act as a career retrospective.
The show is essentially a retrospective of the video game industry, in music -performed by a classical orchestra -- and video clips.
We will be featuring a retrospective exhibit with Macy's Herald Square and Vogue highlighting our heritage and evolution of the brand.
It features an engraved black and brown dial with a retrospective crown design.
The track can also be found on Vega's two greatest hits collections, Tried and True (1988), and Retrospective (2003).
She has exhibited at numerous places including a retrospective of her photography at the North East's prestigious Zone Gallery.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of Stuart's work.
The festival will also show a complete retrospective of fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber's work.
In 1886 a large retrospective of his work was held at the Grosvenor Gallery.
In spring, a cd retrospective of his music, Six Of Hearts, was released.