Sentences with phrase «kinetic wars with»

These types of monetary competitions are built around the very real understanding that nuclear armed nations can not afford to fight old - fashioned, kinetic wars with each other.

Not exact matches

«Following the 1994 Shoemaker - Levy 9 comet impacts with Jupiter, Edward Teller proposed to a collective of U.S. and Russian ex-Cold War weapons designers in a 1995 planetary defense workshop meeting at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), that they collaborate to design a 1 gigaton nuclear explosive device, which would be equivalent to the kinetic energy of a 1 km diameter asteroid.

Sticking with modern art, Bailly Gallery's exhibition «Post War» (11 May — 11 June) looks at the disparate forms of art that emerged in the wake of the Second World War — from abstraction to kinetic and concrete art.

Famous modern installation artists include: Joseph Beuys (1921 - 86) the war - scarred ex-Professor of Monumental Sculpture at the Dusseldorf Academy, whose lard and felt installations, extensive use of found objects, bold lectures on art and creativity and career long dedication earned him a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Italian Arte Povera artists Mario Merz (1925 - 2003), Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933), Jannis Kounellis (b. 1936), and Gilberto Zorio (b. 1944); the German multi-media artist Rebecca Horn (b. 1944), noted for her performance films, her kinetic installations, and her Guggenheim retrospective which toured Europe in 1994; Judy Chicago (b. 1939), noted for her installation of feminist art - The Dinner Party (1979, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York); Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), noted for his neon light sculpture and video installations; and the Frenchman Christian Boltanski (b. 1944), famous for his installations of photographs, sometimes with lights.

The mood swing, however, could be attributed to a growing international interest in the elegant forms emerging in the new and popular kinetic art and the effect of technologies developed during World War II that had been taken up by designers such Charles and Ray Eames, who had experimented with fibreglass, plastic resin and wire, to produce new types of furniture and home accessories that were stronger, but lighter in feel than anything that had existed before.