Sentences with phrase «after the second world war ended»

After the Second World War ended in 1945, the center of the art world shifted from the School of Paris to the New York School.

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Shortly after the end of World War II, Zolli and his second wife (his first wife had died years before) converted to the Roman Catholic Church.

Sir Winston Churchill first used the term «special relationship» in 1946 a year after the end of the Second World War.

In a political system organised around the dominance of the Conservatives, Labour's periods in office served primarily to head off and demoralise the waves of working class discontent which shook British society in the 1920s, after the Second World War and at the end of the post-war boom in the 1970s.

He looks at the period, two decades after the end of the Second World War, in a divided Germany, still struggling to come to terms with its place in the wWorld War, in a divided Germany, still struggling to come to terms with its place in the worldworld.

After the end of the Second World War, Shepherd, together with his wife Allison, went to Singapore as an employee of a British trading company.

FOR about thirty years after the end of the Second World War, the American government, through the Department of Defense, the CIA and various nongovernment research institutions, conducted medical research on several thousand of its citizens, often without their knowledge.

These studies lived through a golden age after the end of the Second World War and played, in the shadow of nuclear energy (the physics topic of the time), an important political role.

It says a great deal for the skill of the British secret services (not a phrase one gets to use too often) that the very existence of one of the most important operations of the Second World War managed to be kept from the general public until the best part of 40 years after the conflict ended.

Born only a few months after the end of the Second World War, Wim Wenders is a product of post-war (West) Germany.

The presentation introduces students to the idea of a possible second World War so soon after the first, then takes them back to the end of WW1 thinking about how they might punish Germany then finding out what actually happens.

After the second world war's end, baseball players left the trenches for the baseball field and the modern era of baseball began.

In the summer of 1961, sixteen years after the end of the Second World War, the world was faced for the first time with the realistic threat of nuclear annihilaWorld War, the world was faced for the first time with the realistic threat of nuclear annihilaworld was faced for the first time with the realistic threat of nuclear annihilation.

That changed after William Lyon Mackenzie King created the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. at the end of the Second World War to backstop the construction of new homes for returning soldiers.

Born in Belgrade just after the end of the Second World War, Marina Abramovic (born 1946) was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Church (her great uncle was a Patriarch and a canonized saint in the Church) and left Yugoslavia in 1976, having already established herself as a performance artist, living in Amsterdam and eventually New York, where she presently lives.

This is just seven years after the end of the Second World War, so much of the country was still devastated.

Nothing seemed to suggest the major change in direction Pasmore's work was to take two years after the end of the Second World War.

After fleeing Silesia at the end of the Second World War, he studied under Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he fiercely criticised the consumerism of West Berlin.

In 1962 Auerbach, who has been painting London for 60 years, depicted the rebuilding of this West End cinema after its ruin in the second world war.

The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 at Barbican Art Gallery is the first major UK exhibition to focus on Japanese domestic architecture from the end of the Second World War to today, a field which has consistently produced some of the most influential and extraordinary examples of modern and contemporary design.

Such longing is rooted in our collective memories, the values that Richard Wagner and Karl May idealized remain, even after the end of the Second World War, inseparable from German cultural history.

The artist is present not only in the exhibition but also in the experience of the book.Born in Belgrade just after the end of the Second World War, Marina Abramovic was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Church (her great uncle was a Patriarch and a canonized saint in the Church) and left Yugoslavia in 1976, having already established herself as a performance artist, living in Amsterdam and eventually New York, where she presently lives.

She founded three of the most important avant - garde galleries of the 20th century: Guggenheim Jeune, in London's Cork Street, which brought surrealism to London before the second world war; Art of This Century, which opened in New York in 1942 after Peggy's return to the US; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice - which still houses her personal collection in the palazzo where she ended her life.

From the seconds after a bomb is detonated to a former scene of battle years after a war has ended, this exhibition focuses on the passing of time, tracing a diverse and poignant journey through over 150 years of conflict around the world including the first to be documented by a camera.

It suggests that he has missed the fundamental point — the fundamental point — about the new epoch: that the functioning of the Earth system has changed, and that it changed at the end of the 18th century; or, if we want to be absolutely certain, in the decades after the Second World War.

Peter says that bearing in mind the aircraft, in concept, was on the drawing board in the early 1930's, only 12 years after the end of the 1st World War, the pace of industrial evolution with respect to aviation is second to none.

If aliens had been looking out for us with the help of a radio telescope, they would have probably ended up finding nothing during the period of the first 4.5 billion years; of course Earth had dinosaurs and microbes, but we became detectable only by the time of Second World War, after the invention of radar.