Sentences with phrase «life after the second world war»

We started out in 1948 offering marriage guidance for couples struggling to readjust to married life after the Second World War.

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Soon after this the Europeans gained a stranglehold on the economic life of the area which did not begin to be broken until after the first and second World Wars.

Most young adults today do not have the same kind of life choices available to them that were available in the period of economic expansion after the Second World War.

Martin also asks some telling questions about Rahner's remarkably optimistic vision of human nature — an optimism all the more astonishing since, as Martin notes, he spent almost his entire priestly life (1932 — 84) first under Nazi rule and then, after the Second World War, with half of Germany under Soviet Communism.

Right down until after the Second World War, even city - dwelling cats had to make a living on mice.

The countries in eastern Europe, having already suffered from German occupation, which came under Communist control after the Second World War, experienced the same hostility to religious life.

After the Second World War, pastors like Peter Marshall continued to inculcate a Victorian code and the family ideals associated with it; but the life of men and women in the 1950s bore little resemblance to the lives of Victorian men and women for whom the complementarity of the sexes was a part of daily life experience.

Polanyi's portrait of the nomadic life in science of her émigré father and uncle poignantly highlights the intermeshing of career, family and international politics which affected so many both during and after the Second World War.

These studies lived through a golden age after the end of the Second World War and played, in the shadow of nuclear energy (the physics topic of the time), an important political role.

A rather trite, unnecessarily - complicated wartime romance in which the most cynical drunk in the world is persuaded, after getting a second chance with the love of his life, to sacrifice his happiness (and hers, but that's not really relevant) for the war effort, by tricking her into returning to her anti-Nazi activist husband and continuing her loveless sham of a marriage.

A significant and arresting section in the second half of Life After Life occurs during the period of the German bombings of London during World War II known as «The Blitz.»

His life and work were greatly affected by the political and social upheavals in France and Germany during the Second World War; after fleeing his native Germany (he was considered a «degenerate» artist by the Gestapo) he fought with the French Foreign Legion and lost his right leg on the Alsatian front.

This exhibition brings together works by artists living in Britain after the Second World War who were working in the field of constructivism, an international movement which emerged almost exactly a century ago in Continental Europe.

Born in Belgrade just after the end of the Second World War, Marina Abramovic (born 1946) was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Church (her great uncle was a Patriarch and a canonized saint in the Church) and left Yugoslavia in 1976, having already established herself as a performance artist, living in Amsterdam and eventually New York, where she presently lives.

After the second world war, as the US became a superpower, a new generation of artists made New York the centre of modern art, with a strange yet authoritative form of abstraction that was free from the influence of the still - living European modern masters.

Her connections with and contributions to the Surrealist movement were wide - ranging; she exhibited alongside artists including Eileen Agar and Henry Moore and has been credited as central to the development and prolonged life of the movement after the Second World War.

The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 at Barbican Art Gallery is the first major UK exhibition to focus on Japanese domestic architecture from the end of the Second World War to today, a field which has consistently produced some of the most influential and extraordinary examples of modern and contemporary design.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

Beginning on the 2nd of June, one of the most important living contemporary artists, Georg Baselitz — who almost singlehandedly showed a generation of German artists how to engage with national identity and issues of art after the Second World War — has a new exhibition at Dachau Castle entitled «Mit Richard unterwegs» (On the way with Richard).

The artist is present not only in the exhibition but also in the experience of the book.Born in Belgrade just after the end of the Second World War, Marina Abramovic was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Church (her great uncle was a Patriarch and a canonized saint in the Church) and left Yugoslavia in 1976, having already established herself as a performance artist, living in Amsterdam and eventually New York, where she presently lives.

In Britain after the second world war, life was grey and consumer products that were routine in the US looked like science fiction dreams.

She founded three of the most important avant - garde galleries of the 20th century: Guggenheim Jeune, in London's Cork Street, which brought surrealism to London before the second world war; Art of This Century, which opened in New York in 1942 after Peggy's return to the US; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice - which still houses her personal collection in the palazzo where she ended her life.

As a result, it became increasingly difficult for Denesuline to support themselves by their traditional hunting and trapping economies, especially after the Second World War, when government policies encouraged Aboriginal peoples to resettle in permanent administrative settlements, where most live today.

After the Second World War, emerging researchers avoided explanations of their research based on race, just as determinedly as earlier researchers had avoided explanations that undermined notions of biological race.7 Culture replaced race, with researchers now collecting data about a vanishing way of life, and similarities rather than differences were emphasised.

After the Second World War, Delaunay joined Groupe Espace, a collective of artists and architects who aimed to integrate art with every element of daily life.