Sentences with phrase «on manifest destiny»

In Pieceable Kingdom, MAD's Spring 2017 Van Lier Fellow Camille Hoffman presents new mixed - media artworks that offer meditations on Manifest Destiny and its latent representation in the romantic American landscape.

Wars are the subject of such works as Destiny Manifesto (2006) and Triumph of the Wild (2009), whose titles pun, respectively, on Manifest Destiny and on Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will.

Camille Hoffman's current work is a mixed - media meditation on Manifest Destiny and its representation in the romantic American landscape.

Some found their way across the lengthy Oregon Trail only to rest at the coastline, the last stop on the Manifest Destiny highway.

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First they lose faith in the 6 - day creationist god, then in the bible - dictation god, then in the male - supremacy god, then in the european - supremacy / western - civilization / colonialist god, then in the anti-gay god, then in the pro-war god, then in the American - exceptionalism / manifest - destiny god, then in the anti-palestinian god, then in the controller - of - everything - that - happens god, then in the design - engineer god, then in the penal - substitutionary - atonement god, and so on.

American dominance and isolation and perfect security ended with the launching of Sputnik and the rise of a third world with its commitment to neutrality rather than to either communist or capitalist ideologies, and it challenged your notion and mine of this country's manifest destiny to be the city on the hill, the new Eden, the covenanted people — as never before in U.S. history.

Subsequent generations have voiced similar themes to propel America's narrative: their country was thought to have a «manifest destiny;» to represent «an empire of liberty;» to offer the «last best hope on earth;» and above all, to embody «American exceptionalism.»

How did notion of «Manifest Destiny» in particular wreak havoc on creation and indigenous people?

The GOP is following the Whigs (whose brilliant beginnings are now forgotten since they sold out against their conscience on the issues of slavery and manifest destiny) into the dilapidated dustbin of history, and will be commemorated in future history textbooks as the party whose decline began when they sold out to ignorance and religious extremism.

Manifest Destiny is still an important influence on how Americans think about their country and the world.

Beginning on the cusp of the 20th century and spanning 30 years, There Will Be Blood is a genuine epic about manifest destiny, good old - fashioned American ambition, the obsessive pursuit of money, and the equally feverish pursuit of God.

While Meek's Cutoff works well as a pensive musing on homesteader survival and as an impeachment of Manifest Destiny and imperial expansion, it also contains attenuated matriarchal temperament, which is pretty commonplace for a seer such as Reichardt.

Grateful parents swoon, while bright, cheerful students meet their academic manifest destinies as their awesome teachers reject the discredited orthodoxies of industrial - age schooling in favor of hands - on projects and authentic, real - world tasks.

We reaffirm the belief that the «potentialities inherent in the station of man, the full measure of his destiny on earth, the innate excellence of his reality, must all be manifested in this promised Day of God.»

On the inevitability side, it is true there were voices back then urging prospective patriots to regard American independence as an early version of manifest destiny.

This entry in the Story of America series focuses on the concept of manifest destiny.

It can help provide participants with valuable information in all areas of their lives and can offer practical remedial measures to help alleviate areas of difficulty, giving the confidence to manifest our true destiny and create success, happiness and harmony on all levels.

Current projects include paintings that explore artifacts of Manifest Destiny, a drawing and installation project based on fire history and a current forest thinning models in the Sagehen Experimental Forest, and a series of paintings and site - specific works that address the concept of wilderness today.

The 53 pieces of discarded waste paper comprising Jimmy Durham's A Street - level Treatise on Money and Work are brought to the center of a dialogue on the destruction of native cultures and Dario Robleto addresses American notions of manifest destiny in Deep Down I Don't Believe in Hymns by taking a military - issued blanket and «infesting» it with hand - ground dust made from vinyl recordings of Neil Young's «Cortez the Killer» and Soft Cell's «Tainted Love.»

Dana Younger focuses his artwork on the cost of Western expansion — what is sacrificed in the pursuit of Manifest Destiny?

From the early imperial advocates of Manifest Destiny adopting the great pictures of the Hudson River School to today's «true» American advertising of beer and truck ads with a snowy cap on every beer can or a rugged terrain in every commercial, landscape and the American brand go hand and hand.

Carl Andre's «Manifest Destiny,» 1986, on the first floor of 101 Spring.

THE MANIFEST DESTINY OF BORROWED SCENERY By Andrew Maerkle Installation view of «Sam Durant: Borrowed Scenery» at Blum & Poe, Tokyo, 2015, with 1905, Japan Defeats Russia, Empire (2015) in foreground, graphite and colored pencil on paper, two components, 46View More >

In theaters and on the street, Manifest Destiny has shed its rosy - cheeked utopianism for a grizzled dystopian pallor.

Erika Wanenmacher Manifest Destiny, 2004 Fimo, wood, rocks, acrylic on paper, steel 2 parts: 13 x 10 x 10/10 x 12 x 1 1/2 inches EWs 1

Yet what we both discovered was the two paintings shared striking similarities in the terms of how the images and the compositions were deployed, particularly with the identifiable use of the monumental black triangular, pyramidal, monolithic structures at the center, which undoubtedly referred to the pyramid on the back of the U.S one dollar bill, while the flying images perhaps obliquely evoked Manifest Destiny's Goddess Columbia floating in mid air, the symbol of America — in any case, the two pictures were covered with smoke and fire.

Most recently, Vitale has engaged with America's railways — a transportation system identified with frontier passage, Manifest Destiny, and nostalgia — breathing new life into discarded railroad crossings by installing them on floors or standing them upright as architectural interventions.

But even though Day for Night has its share of politically charged works — with American artists like Nari Ward, Dash Snow, Matthew Day Jackson, Jamal Cyrus, Robert A. Pruitt, and Dawolu Jabari Anderson offering overt criticism of nationalism, the war on terror, manifest destiny, and racism — a general preoccupation with art history undermines the exhibition's transgressive potential, rendering it a series of academic exercises.

My next job for Don was guarding the Carl Andre stacked brick work, Manifest Destiny, at Spring Street, that was permanently installed on the first floor there.

It's basically the manifest destiny for lawyers on the Internet.