Sentences with phrase «of a civil war as»

The story of Black Panther takes place a week after the events of Civil War as T'Challa / Black Panther (played by Chadwick Boseman) takes his place as the new king of Wakanda.

I am not sure that the book changed or added to my understanding of the events of the Civil War as I have read many historical books (fiction and non fiction on the Civil War and have visited many of the Civil War battle sites in the Mid-Atlantic area.

Kara Walker, Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b «tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, 1994, paper, 3.9 x 15 m. Courtesy: the artist and MoMA, New York

Kara Walker talks about her interpretation of Gone with the Wind, and how it inspired her first silhouette piece, Gone, An Historical Romance of Civil War As it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of Young Negress and Her Heart.

Kara Walker's 50 - foot - long wall installation Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b» tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart (1994) is on view in the Marron Atrium through November 29, 2010.

So it's thrilling to see, say, Kara Walker's 50 - foot - long installation with a title nearly as unwieldy: «Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b» tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart,» a slyly subversive take on Victorian - era silhouettes, suffused with sex and violence.

The same year she obtained a master's degree at the Rhode Island School of Design, Walker debuted a mural at the Drawing Center in New York City titled as Gone: A Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart.

After enjoying what may safely be considered a critical success for her Gone: A Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, Kara Walker was offered a representation with a major gallery, Wooster Gardens — now known by the name of Sikkema Jenkins & Co..

Image: Kara Walker's Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart [detail], 1994.

The piece, a mural titled «Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart,» drew praise and controversy in the art world.

KARA WALKER explains the concept behind «Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred b» tween the Dusty Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart.»

Kara Walker, Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, 1994, Cut paper on wall.

Kara Walker, Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, 1994, cut paper on wall, installation variable dimensions, approx. 396.2 × 1524 cm, 156 x 600 in., installation view: Selections 1994, The Drawing Center, New York, 1994, © photo: Orcutt Photo, Courtesy Kara Walker & Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, © Kara Walker

Kara Walker installs «Gone, An Historical of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart» (1994) at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

After receiving her BFA from Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design three years later, Walker went on to create Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b» tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart (1994), first exhibited at New York's Drawing Center.

Not exact matches

As the Communist Revolution swept over the mainland during the Chinese Civil War, the capitalists fled to Formosa (the island of Taiwan), but neither ceded statehood.

Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.

As Dale Carnegie noted in his biography of the 16th president, «Lincoln the Unknown,» Lincoln once drafted a stern rebuke of General George Meade, who'd disobeyed Lincoln's orders during the Civil War.

The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz are just a few of the incredible deep dives he has done into the eras and moments that define who we are as Americans.

But as troubling as the largest civil defense drills since the height of the Cold War have been, the steps Russia has taken to improve its offensive nuclear capabilities likely overshadow them.

Holland's genuine, giddy emotion while babbling and sometimes whispering to his cellphone camera could just as easily be secret footage Marvel and Sony shot of Holland reacting to meeting the A-list «Civil War» cast for the first time.

We didn't get a lot of time with Vision, as he was introduced in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» and only had a small role in «Captain America: Civil War.»

Eric Brammer, 30, an information technology specialist from Roanoke, Virginia, who describes himself as Democrat, said he expects tensions to continue over Russia's support of the government of President Bashar Assad in civil war - wracked Syria, where the U.S., Britain and France last week launched missile strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

«In the aftermath of «Captain America: Civil War,» Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a Super Hero and a father.

In the comics, Goliath sided with Captain America after the events of «Civil War» and appeared as part of his Secret Avengers team.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

According to Reuters, Putin's role as intermediary between Riyadh and Tehran was pivotal, and is a «testament to the rising influence of Russia in the Middle East since its military intervention in the Syrian civil war just over a year ago.»

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

Four months later, on August 29, just as Kiev began losing its attempt at ethnic cleansing against the eastern Donbas region, the IMF signed off on the first loan ever to a side engaged in a civil war, not to mention rife with insider capital flight and a collapsing balance of payments.

The civil war that has been ravaging the country and the world for the better part of the last decade is largely seen as a proxy war between larger players.

The PC campaign was fraught with controversy, claims of thuggishness on Kenney's part, similar countercharges from him, and powerful emotions from what one delegate described as «a civil war.»

The working group has been urging governments, companies and other stakeholders to increase the role Christian and other faith - based organisations have in tackling humanitarian crises such as lack of food, water or sanitation, as well as civil wars, religious persecution or natural disasters.

Ironically, conflicts such as Mozambique's civil war can retard the spread of the pandemic, because communications are truncated and population movements are inhibited.

Then there was a thing called «the movement» (often capitalized as The Movement), which was a frequently confused mix of agitations coming out of the civil rights movement, joining up with opposition to the war in Vietnam, and linking hands with a «counterculture» that embraced everything from pharmaceutical ecstasies to flirting with revolutionary violence.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquAs they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquas one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquas strong as ever.&raquas ever.»

As Zemmour sees it, France must dramatically cut immigration and restore the policy of assimilation or brace for civil war.

After the devastating losses of the Civil War, people were searching for comfort and found it in a book called «The Gates Ajar,» which depicted Heaven as a place where people led normal lives in their «spiritual bodies,» with houses, families, and regular activities.

James Buchanan (15th President — D - PA) is universally listed as the worst president for his actions leading up to the outbreak of the Civil War.

It's a question I've long had as a Civil War buff and that has new resonance on Tuesday, which marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.

Although he sympathized with the civil rights movement and actively opposed the Vietnam War» he was (with Richard John Neuhaus) a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam» he felt increasingly alarmed at the radicalism of the Movement, which reminded him of the street violence he had witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany.

To many he is known as one of the most courageous opponents of the bloody war in Indo - China, to others he is known as a leader in the civil - rights movement, yet to others he is known as a popular writer and speaker, and to yet others he is an enterprising young politician who will someday hold political office.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

(I wrote more about this in my review of Mark Noll's fascinating book, «The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.»)

Milton's Areopagitica, published as a letter to Parliament in 1644, in the midst of the English Civil War, was an impassioned case against censorship and the oppression of thought.

You would think that someone who had any rationality to them at all would be focusing on real issues, such as stripping away of our civil liberties, or the ongoing wars that actually cost this country billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, or the trillions of dollars in our deficit.

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

But it wasn't until picking up Mark Noll's excellent book, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, that I familiarized myself with the rhetoric and logic of the anti-abolition movement.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.