Sentences with phrase «decade after the second world war»

Americans who came of age in the decade after the Second World War are deeply imbued with the values and moral commitments of the American Dream.

Two complementary archetypes dominate the story of New York's ascent to art world supremacy in the decades after the second world war: the inscrutable artist, from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons, and the savvy dealer.

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.

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All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

Still, to put things in perspective, the U.S. dollar didn't become a global reserve currency until after the Second World War, 150 years after it was created and three decades after the Federal Reserve was formed.

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.

SIX decades after their pregnant mothers were starved during the second world war, the genes of Dutch men and women retain chemical changes that may put them at risk of diabetes and cancer.

After nearly a decade of mostly alternating between the Black Ops and Modern Warfare storylines, Call of Duty is returning to its World War II roots with developer Sledgehammer Games» second full - fledged release, Call of Duty: WWII.

We think of artistic modernism as having had two great expansive phases: the first leading from Cézanne through Cubism to the birth of abstraction in the Netherlands and Russia but soon eclipsed — in the West by the postwar «return to order,» in Russia by the political changes wrought by Lenin's death in 1924 (though the complete triumph of socialist realism would only come a decade later)-- and the second, very different phase, commencing after World War II with the Abstract Expressionists

This exhibition — the grand finale in a three - part series showcasing some of the 1,200 artworks that have come to the Mead since 2007 — features an extraordinary array of art made after the Second World War, more than half of which dates to the past decade alone, and most of which has never before been presented at the Mead.

After the [second world] war, even in Pittsburgh, abstraction replaced everything else for at least the next two decades.

This was certainly a popular notion in the decades just before and after the Second World War.