Sentences with phrase «aftermath of world»

The one exception is New York, as the federal government helps the city clean up in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks.

Among the most inspiring stories that came in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks were those of emergency personnel who risked their lives to aid victims, often at a tragic cost.

The aftermath of World War I and the need for the productive investment of capital led to an increased demand for accounting, consulting, and legal advisers.

The aftermath of World War II brought a wide range of ideas for the peaceful application of nuclear power, including nuclear - powered aircraft, rockets, and even cars (the Ford Nucleon).

Its sprawling operation — the largest single mountaintop - removal mine, covering more than 25 square miles — evokes the smoky, cratered, lifeless aftermath of a World War I battlefield.

Originality: Science is the discovery of the unknown... Skepticism: Scientists take nothing on trust...» Merton's original work was done in the aftermath of World War II and is understood as making the argument for the necessity of these norms to scientific advancement in a democratic society.

With texts in English, Chinese and French, Willem de Kooning / Zao Wou - Ki charts an East - West dialogue in the immediate aftermath of World War II, tracing the thread of nonfigurative abstraction in Chinese, European and American modernism.

Materially reflecting the complexities of individual and collective identity, Les guérillères XII also evokes the uncanny formal ruptures employed by Dadaist artists in the aftermath of World War I. Perret's figure in repose occupies the time and space between action and inaction; whilst guns pose a key threat to societies of our time, here this cast resin gun is candy - like, fetishised, temporarily immobilised yet still harbouring potential.

Hannah Hoch, Richard Huelsenbeck, John Heartfield, and others pioneered the technique of photomontage, using preexisting photographs, often drawn from mass - media sources, to create composite images that sharply critiqued German society and culture in the aftermath of World War I. Drawing on the foundations of Dada, neo-avant-garde artists of the 1950s like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns created assemblages that brought collage techniques into three dimensions — laying the groundwork for much contemporary sculpture — as well as works on paper that incorporated found elements drawn from the mass media and everyday life.

Rejecting established modes of representation, the works featured in the exhibition exemplify the artists» shared quest for a new beginning in art, as in life; one that could respond to a social reality filled with potential and new technological advances in the aftermath of World War II.

Courtesy 303 Gallery] In a way, Williams's reaction to 9/11 is reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists» resort to emotion and the joy (or struggle) of process in the painful aftermath of World War II, as the nuclear age dawned and the Cold War emerged.

(1784), and Martin Heidegger, who in the aftermath of World War II set to ask, «What is Philosophy?»

It was a way to experiment and confront the aftermath of World War II.

Spirit of Cobra highlights the unique meeting of young artists who came together from several European countries in the aftermath of World War II to create a living art, based on spontaneity, experimentation, socialist politics, and exuberant optimism.

At the Vatican Museum, an armless plaster figure made by Marino Marini in the immediate aftermath of World War II is rife with ambiguity — did the artist mean it to be a circus performer, as the title claims, or a disguised, desacralized Christ for a godless world?

In the aftermath of World War II, they put new emphasis on the process of art creation.

A driving force in modernism, the Bauhaus sought to change society in the aftermath of World War I and find a new way of living.

In the visual arts, late modernism encompasses the overall production of most recent art made between the aftermath of World War II and the early years of the 21st century.

The Bauhaus had been established by Walter Gropius in 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I, with the hope that its innovative curriculum would foster connections between architecture, art, and traditional crafts.

ZERO was established in the aftermath of World War II; seeking new beginnings, with idealistic and utopian ambition, the group strove to produce a radical and optimistic global art that dissolved boundaries and embraced elemental forces of nature.

The group emerged in the aftermath of World War II, when the industrial, financial, and cultural sectors of Fort Worth grew rapidly.

This Group was an international network of like - minded artists from Europe, Japan, and North and South America, including Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Manzoni, Almir Mavignier, Jan Schoonhoven, and Jesús Rafael Soto, who shared the group's aspiration to transform and redefine art in the aftermath of World War II.

The advent of the Magnum photo agency, in the aftermath of World War II, marked the «decisive moment» in which a new vision of photojournalism was born.

Castellani's work was centrally featured in ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s - 60s, a 2014 - 15 exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, that focused on Group Zero, an international network of artists who pioneered new approaches to light, movement, and space in the aftermath of World War II.

This was a time when American artists faced existential dilemmas in the aftermath of World War II and the escalating Cold War arms race.

Abstraction dominated artistic practice during these years, as many artists working in the aftermath of World War II sought an international language that might transcend national and regional narratives — and for women artists, additionally, those relating to gender.»

Dadaism was an artistic movement born out of the mood of defeatism enshrouding Europe in the aftermath of World War I.

SO: The Last Hope is a prequel to all of the other Star Ocean games which begins as all of humanity has been forced to come together, following the aftermath of World War III, to work towards venturing out into space and finding new habitable planets for the people of Earth to relocate too.

Deal with the disintegration of the European Union, the expansion of Islamic State, the aftermath of World War III and many other real and fictional scenarios.

Lomaland dissolved in the aftermath of World War I and was used for bootlegging during the Prohibition period.

You may try to find primary sources on depression in the aftermath of the World War II and describe the life of people in the peaceful time.

In her latest novel, The Alice Network, Kate Quinn deftly captures two distinct periods of 20th - century history: World War I and the aftermath of World War II.

The readings in the Judgment, Memory, Legacy section explore the aftermath of World War II in China and Japan and the challenges of rebuilding after the devastation of war.

In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.

Vienna 1956: Though the microcosm of one family's joys and sorrows, first time filmmaker Sandra Wollner tells a haunting tale of daily life in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

The latest collaboration between German writer - director Christian Petzold and star Nina Hoss (their last film together, «Barbara,» was a knockout) is set in Berlin in 1945, in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

The story is set in the aftermath of World War II and follows a journalist Juliet Ashton (James) who decides to write about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club formed on Guernsey Island during wartime.

1945 is a small and intense microcosm of that dichotomy demonstrated over the course of one fateful day in the aftermath of World War II.

At the kitchen table, the three of them sit uncomfortably as the man quizzes the boy on the history of their country following the aftermath of World War II.

We may similarly fall for the big screen adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows» book, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society about a female writer in the aftermath of World War II, starring Lily James and released on April 20.

With 1945, director Ferenc Török touches on the infrequently considered aftermath of World War II from an unvarnished human perspective, examining the guilt, fear and complacent complicity of a small village full of people who profited from the persecution of its Jewish residents — some more willingly than others.

Their simple meeting, set against the onset and aftermath of world war, becomes an emotional and complex relationship which slowly molds the rest of their lives.

Set in the aftermath of World War Two, Jerusalem examines Britain's attempts to define itself following a seismic change in the world order.

Cannes 2018: Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski returns to Europe in the aftermath of World War II in his first film since the 2013 Oscar winner «Ida»

But its marrying of a location and a sense of time and space seems more predictive of his later masterpiece The River (1951), a reflective drama following an isolated British family living on the banks of the Ganges in India, than it does anything that came out of Italy in the aftermath of World War Two.

Fortunately, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society mainly lives up to its name, if you enjoy pastoral scenes set in the aftermath of World War II.

It is better, perhaps, to think of «The Uninvited» as a precursor of the many supernatural love stories — like «The Ghost and Mrs. Muir» (1947) and «Portrait of Jennie» (1948)-- that appeared in the grim aftermath of World War II, when American had again become, in Drew Gilpin Faust's phrase, a republic of suffering.

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