Meanings of first exponent in English

To return: We find that Beethoven was the first exponent of our modern art.

Confucius was the first exponent of political conservatism.

Thus Enmeduranki, the prototype of the seventh Antediluvian patriarch of Berossus, was traditionally revered as the first exponent of divination.

For while in treasonable loyalty he had a thousand rivals, on the road he was the first exponent of the grand manner.

In a way, therefore, Hughes was the first exponent of pay-per-view, 40 years before it became an option for the rest of us.

Nelson is the first exponent of installation to take it on and he's set himself the exacting job of "making it disappear".

Co Adriaanse seems to have been the first exponent of the 4-3-2-1 at Den Haag in the late 80s.

Da Vinci and Veranzio appear to have been the first exponents, the first in the theory and the latter in the practice of parachuting.

Many of the more conservative persisted in this method, and, as a compensation, became the first exponents of the popular art of "board-sliding."