Sentences with phrase «unprecedented upsurge»

While non-representational art has been around since the stone age, the work here typifies an unprecedented upsurge of abstract art that was often viewed by its practitioners as the culmination of several decades, if not centuries, of aesthetic progress.

The bloodshed which occurred over the weekend in the Old Capital prompted Prime Minister Dean Barrow to assemble his cabinet ministers and devise a plan to combat the unprecedented upsurge in gun violence.