Sentences with phrase «from social upheaval»

But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war.

Quite apart from the social upheaval this caused, it prepared a favourable base for the potential political dissolution of the country, following on from that of the ex-USSR.

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The economic and social upheaval stemming from both the Great Depression and World War II forced the United States to seek out a source of inexpensive labor to meet its manpower needs in both agriculture and railway maintenance.

This not to say that the Western world doesn't have its own history of social upheaval, but at least we have learned from our past mistakes and learned (for the most part) that killing anyone who goes to a different church is not the way to solve our problems.

Now, as Childs points out, most of the elements in this consensus have been questioned from within and have been made to appear irrelevant by the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s.

In a tale that is ripped from the headlines, a group of powerful New Yorkers suddenly encounter social upheaval, deception, and scandal.

The possibilities here, it seems, vastly outweigh the good, with the worst case probably involving the displacement of several billion people from the poorest coastal regions of the world, with concomitant social, economic and political upheaval, possible starvation from regional losses in agriculture, and rises in international tensions, terrorism and political instability.

Near biblical in scope and legendary in significance, it comes from Victor Hugo's sweeping tale of romance and redemption set in 19th century France, a country only a few years beyond its radical social and political upheaval that would have a lasting impact on the country and the world.

A fella from Lockheed and a guy from General Electric must have been sitting around in a bar in the early sixties, both high on peyote and social upheaval.

Aside from the incredible influence of social upheaval, there are also clear functional dynamics within the Academy that one must consider going forward.

The big headline here is that Danish director Lone Scherfig has at last achieved a worthy femme - forward follow - up to her sly coming - of - age tale from 2009, the Oscar - nominated «An Education,» with another portrait of a London - based young woman adapting to a period of social upheaval.

If there's a dealbreaker for audiences or commercially minded critics, it's the fact that the narrative tends to grow unwieldy and wanders non-linearly from a coming - of - age story to something much more complex and wider (and no doubt autobiographical) about how the post-war generation's social upheaval and radical thinking damaged the children of this era (of which Potter was clearly one).

His narrative voice is consistent, as is his fierce attention to life, from sensuous nuance to the spinning roulette wheel of city life to war and profound social upheavals.

The light tones are different from the darker ones often chosen by the artist during the previous decade, torn by the social and political upheaval of the War which left a strong impression on him.

It focuses on works by primarily African - American artists often omitted from mainstream gallery and museum historical exhibitions who were working during the civil rights movement, the 1965 Watts riots and the era's general social and cultural upheaval: Ed Bereal, Wallace Berman, Nathaniel Bustion, Alonzo Davis, Dale Brockman Davis, Charles Dickson, Mel Edwards, David Hammons, Daniel La Rue Johnson, Ed Kienholz, Ron Miyashiro, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, Joe Ray, Betye Saar, Kenzi Shiokava and Timothy Washington.

Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, artists from Latin America have embraced photography as a means of capturing their surroundings, documenting episodes of social injustice and political upheaval, and constructing images of national identity.

Engagement with Political and Social Issues: Following a year of upheaval and conflicts around the world, many galleries will showcase artists that grapple with pressing social and political issues of our time, ranging from legacies of colonialism, to the politics of feminism, to the dynamics of power and the dissemination of information in an increasingly digital Social Issues: Following a year of upheaval and conflicts around the world, many galleries will showcase artists that grapple with pressing social and political issues of our time, ranging from legacies of colonialism, to the politics of feminism, to the dynamics of power and the dissemination of information in an increasingly digital social and political issues of our time, ranging from legacies of colonialism, to the politics of feminism, to the dynamics of power and the dissemination of information in an increasingly digital world.

On view from September 13 through December 23, 2017, Speech / Acts brings together recent work and new commissions by six artists: Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms, who reflect upon experiences growing up through the social upheavals of the 1990s and draw on the current sociopolitical climate and the preceding Black Arts Movement in their work.

Lee Bul was born in the 1960s in South Korea, a period of social and economic upheaval marked by the transition from military dictatorship to a democratic state.

Using traditional Song Dynasty landscape painting techniques, with mineral - based inks and watercolors on handmade paper, his paintings and scrolls often explore the effects of environmental engineering and the resulting social upheaval, as well as the repercussions of natural disasters: from the U.S. government's ineffectual response to Hurricane Katrina to the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River.

«Reference points for this work come from my interest in the historic changes brought about in art by the social and cultural upheavals and rapid developments in science and technology in the 1960's and 70's.

Subtitled Abstract Art and Society 1915 - 2015, it can not possibly hope to do full justice to a century of art - making and social upheaval, from Europe and Russia to the Middle East and the Americas.

Onditi's recent paintings focus on current political, social and economic upheavals and interrogate the current shift from liberal values.

Art museums on Long Island present a varied group of exhibitions in January 2017 ranging from politics to social upheaval to student...

Taking its title from LeWitt's statement «Irrational judgments lead to new experience,» this book examines the breakthroughs of the artists» intertwined careers, offering a new understanding of minimal, post-minimal, and conceptual art amid the era's political and social upheavals.

They began the break from the reigning concerns of the established New York City art world and presaged the social upheavals of the late»60s.

He takes opinion at Ground Zero and from those on the receiving end of the War on Terror — all but a war zone, in fact, where there is massive social and political upheaval — as representative of of what is «ubiquitous».

The report acknowledges the social upheaval that must accompany the shift away from routine labour to... [more]

The report acknowledges the social upheaval that must accompany the shift away from routine labour to creative work and attempts to inspire us to face up to the challenge now, in a conscious — and creative — fashion, because the shift is underway whether we wish it or not.