Sentences with phrase «post war period»

@Sebastian and Seabastian wonders whether «the apparent success of Keynesianism in the post war period was not completely a result of, say, dirt cheap fossil fuels, or the utilisation of the considerable technological advances that occurred during the war.»

It was a big problem because during that post war period human production of CO2 increased the most.

The Contemporary Art Day sale held in London on 30 June includes classical pieces from the notable movements of the Post War period, along with paintings and sculptures by the leading names of the contemporary art world.

is presenting the first museum exhibition in the UK devoted to the artist Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992)- one of the most important and singular American painters of the post war period, whose work is gaining increasing recognition today.

This fantasy of a direct projection of thought not only had a decisive impact on the birth of abstraction but also influenced surrealism and its obsession with the collective sharing of creation and, in the post war period, it gave rise to numerous visual and sound installations inspired by the revolution in information technology, leading to the declaration of «the dematerialisation of art» in conceptual practices...

One such moment was that doom - laden post war period when the specter of nuclear holocaust haunted a world still reeling from a devastating world war.

Its primary concern in the immediate post war period was providing affordable housing for returning soldiers by providing low cost NHA mortgages.

The types of school buildings that can be described as «historic» are similarly wide - ranging — from several hundred year old buildings that remain in use as schools to modernist architecture built in the post war period.

Not exact matches

In the waning decades of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which coincided with the post — World War II period, Catholics in the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culture.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

Dictatorship that deny human rights such as to life and security have been more pronounced in the poor countries during the post World War II period.

Each service of the U.S. military posted the lowest number of deaths from motor vehicle accidents in 2012 — although motorcycle - related fatalities continues to be a leading cause of death among service members unrelated to war, according to a new study of a15 - year surveillance period.

Post World War II British Cinema was one of the richest periods in film history.

The quality of American life improved substantially in the post World War II period for many Americans not only because of hard work but also because unions and other progressive forces placed limits on the working day.

If we must make comparison to Le Carré, and when reviewing spy novels it seems de rigueur to do so, it would not be to the early Smiley novels but to Le Carré's more recent works such as Absolute Friends, set in the post Cold - War period when the lines between state - sponsored and private sector intelligence have blurred.

«I had done a very detailed analysis of the cotton market throughout the entire post - World War П period.

Visit some of our many seacoast defense sites: Fort Point National Historic Site; a brick Civil War era fort at the edge of the Golden Gate Fort Baker and Fort Barry; Endicott - period (1905 - 1908) historic army posts Marin Headlands Nike Missile site; a Cold - War era nike site

As soon as your heart sinks at the sight of bullet marks still visible in some buildings or at the concrete walls of housing estates marking the war and post war - period, Bosnia and Herzegovina surprises you with a sight so stunning that it makes you look twice, wishing that you wouldn't have to leave.

Sega Sammy said this on the matter: «We conducted detailed reviews of earnings projections for titles targeted toward the US and European markets and decided to narrow down sales titles from the following period and after to strong IPs, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Football Manager, Total War and Aliens, which are expected to continue posting solid earnings.

It features key examples of the technique by artists from various periods and regions, from historical figures like the Czech surrealists Jindřich Štýrský and Toyen, to post — World War II artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Roy Lichtenstein, to contemporary artists of different generations, including Anna Barriball, Jennifer Bornstein, Morgan Fisher, Simryn Gill, Matt Mullican, Ruben Ochoa, Gabriel Orozco, and Jack Whitten.

[16] Baudrillard himself, since 1984, was fairly consistent in his view contemporary art, and postmodern art in particular, was inferior to the modernist art of the post World War II period, [16] while Jean - François Lyotard praised Contemporary painting and remarked on its evolution from Modern art.

The film covers the post World War II period, characterized by prosperity and innocent consumerism, as well as institutionalized fear, through the beginning of the 1960s featuring Sputnik, Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon.

With booming prices for the Post War and Contemporary art it is not surprising at all that more and more under appreciated artists from that period surface on the market.

The earliest works, taken by photographers such as George Bradford Brainerd and Irving Underhill, document the resort from the post — Civil War period through the turn of the twentieth century.

-- John Loughery, The Washington Post «After Modern Art, in only 245 pages, covers that amazing creative period following the Second World War.

«One need only consider Abstract Expressionism, for just a moment, as just another style to see with a great deal of clarity that, in the Post World War II period, geometric abstraction, or op art, or hard edge painting, or whatever you want to call it was, in fact, the dominant global idiom of that era, the true cosmopolitan language of art.

Anthropogenic warming in the post — war period was 0.4 degrees K. 1944 to 1998 including both the mid century cool and the late century warm Pacific Ocean regimes — as seen in surface temperature records.

Anthropogenic warming in the post — war period was some 0.4 degrees K. 1944 and 1998 being the peaks of 2 successive 20 to 30 year warm Pacific Ocean regimes — as seen in both sea surface and surface temperature records.

Anthropogenic warming in the post — war period was some 0.4 degrees K — 1944 and 1998 being the peaks of 2 successive 20 to 30 year Pacific Ocean regimes — as seen in surface temperature records.

Basically it would be useful if we split the record into pre1939 and post 1945 i.e a historic and modern record leaving aside the war years, and stop pretending we can create a data base that males any sort of sense for that period.