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retrospective

[re-truh-spek-tiv] / ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
backward-looking
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ADJECTIVE
concerned with past
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The San Diego Museum of Art presents a revelatory retrospective on the Spanish artist, whose work pulses with the power of the natural world and his own heritage.

From The Wall Street Journal

These are just a few of the labels that could be applied to Graciela Iturbide, the Mexican photographer who is currently receiving her first New York retrospective at the International Center of Photography.

From The Wall Street Journal

The pictures are perfectly readable in spite of their small size; the selections are retrospective, so readers get bits of each artist’s entire career.

From The Wall Street Journal

Because this was a retrospective observational study, the research cannot conclusively prove that the lower dose directly caused the improved outcomes.

From Science Daily

The nearly 70-year retrospective of portrait drawings in pencil and paint by Los Angeles artist Don Bachardy revealed the works to be like performances: Both artist and sitter participated in putting on a pictorial show.

From Los Angeles Times