Sentences with phrase «confronting twentieth»

Only when we get it into our collective head that the basic problem confronting twentieth - century man is an ecological problem will our politics improve.

Not exact matches

Newly confronted with this issue in the second half of the twentieth century liberals have responded affirmatively.

Begun in the mid-1990s, these works confront the viewer with some of the most powerful and tragic images of twentieth - century history, capturing events including the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, the horrors of the Vietnam War, the Oklahoma City bombing, and environmental destruction in contemporary England.

Proclaimed as one of the most interesting artists to emerge in the twentieth century, and recently as Calvin Klein's latest muse, Ruby's work examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.

According to the gallery, the assemblage «addresses the darker sides of twentieth - century Western society, confronting issues of religion, politics, war, sex, and death.»