Sentences with phrase «wrought by the civil war»

In the second part — on our history's major constitutional disputes — the book reaches its dramatic climax: an expertly told story of the constitutional transformations wrought by the Civil War.

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Some arrived with Otto and may have wanted to work at a startup, but Recode reports what one source calls a «mini civil war» between engineers who arrived with Otto and those who were hired by Uber.

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China by chen guangcheng henry holt, 352 pages, $ 30 A nnihilating a civilization that has withstood more famines, invasions, peasant revolts, civil wars, and tyrants than historians can keep straight takes work.

In recent work, Caroline Hartzell, Matthew Hoddie and Molly Bauer find that the programmes increase the likelihood of civil wars by creating «loser» and «winner» groups.

The character was also informed by then - 2000AD editor Pat Mills, whose work reflects a radical, angry view of England, one heavily informed by the English Civil War and the trenches.

Qubric does not appear to have done any significant work, though Paisley has made repeated trips to Sri Lanka, another country divided by a recent civil war.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

Colombia, rich in biodiversity, has been gripped by a multidecade civil war that made many areas unsafe for scientific work.

Today, many Iraqi and Syrian archaeologists evoke this infamous chapter in medieval history to convey some sense of the devastation wrought by the so - called Islamic State (ISIL), along with the continued brutality of more than four years of civil war in Syria.

As the nasty old piece of work who runs Panem quickly intervening realizes (as played with terrific levels of sour venom by a terrifying Donald Sutherland), simply killing our heroes would the make martyrs of them, and possibly kick off a full - blown civil war he «s trying to avoid.

Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.

With a focus on the trials of three young women as they work to maintain their lives and their home during the final days of the American Civil War, The Keeping Room shines by focusing not on the war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to enduWar, The Keeping Room shines by focusing not on the war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to enduwar or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to endure.

«Our movie is really about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition... [The film begins with] Lincoln's realization that the Emancipation Proclamation, the thing he is most known for, was simply a war powers act that would easily be struck down by any number of lawyers after the cessation of hostilities after the Civil Wwar powers act that would easily be struck down by any number of lawyers after the cessation of hostilities after the Civil WarWar.

Their 13th production, Captain America: Civil War, takes a slightly different tack, suggesting that the world has become worn down by the deadly side effects often wrought by the superheroes, and wants them to bow their knees to a new law that will limit their activity greatly.

Captain America: Civil War is directed by the Russo Brothers, Anthony and Joe, who previously directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier and are working on The Avengers coming up.

While the works are inspired by Willem de Kooning's Woman series from the 1950s, they also take into account the turmoil of the time — the atmosphere of struggle and protest of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, as well as the four political assassinations of Dr. King, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. Jack Whitten (b. 1939, Bessemer, Alabama) has been exhibiting his work for over 40 years.

His early work, through its emphasis on broken and torn surfaces, responds to the destruction experienced in his youth during the Spanish Civil War, followed by that of the Second World War and the era of the atomic bomb.

One of the most important artists from the Middle East, Raad says his work «was in some ways made possible by the civil wars in Lebanon».

An introspective masterpiece by a rare British painter of the English civil war era, this work deserves a public home where it can speak to our own troubles

A timely addition to the 2017 exhibition calendar, the British Museum's print - centric show brings together works by Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Louise Bourgeois and Kara Walker to reveal how artists have responded to key events in US history over the last 50 years — from the assassination of JFK to the Vietnam War, the campaign for civil rights to the AIDS crisis.

The Guatemalan Civil War (1960 - 96) is a recurring subject in his work, which — although often softened by an absurd and humorous approach — fails to conceal the force of history that precedes it.

Opening 3rd October, the new gallery will be inaugurated by Civil War, a major new body of work by the American artist Josh Kline.

The exhibition include «Amerika the Stoker» (1993), «The Red Badge of Courage» (1990) and «The River (after Duke Ellington)» (2012) works, responding to Franz Kafka's Amerika, which recounts the tale of a young immigrant shipped off to America by his parents; the American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane; and American composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington, respectively.

An exhibition of new works by the Los Angeles - based artist takes inspiration from the character of Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic Civil War - era novel «Uncle Tom's Cabin.»

Spanning 155 years, Gun Country brings together more than 40 works, ranging from an albumen print by Timothy H. O'Sullivan taken during the Civil War; photographs documenting pivotal scenes of 1968, including the assassination of Bobby Kennedy; to modern and contemporary works by artists Andy Warhol, Carroll Dunham, and others.

Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883 cyclorama by French painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present sociopolitical climate in the US.

New work by Gonçalo Mabunda whose sculptures are fashioned out of deactivated weapons from the 1977 - 1992 Mozambican civil war.

While the works are inspired by Willem de Kooning's «Woman» series from the 1950s, they also take into account the turmoil of the time — the atmosphere of struggle and protest of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, as well as the four political assassinations of Dr. King, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X.

Although they were inspired by the Spanish Civil War, these works are by no means intended as illustrations of the conflict.

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.

He is best known for his Elegy to the Spanish Republic series, over 140 career - spanning works inspired by the 1930s Spanish Civil War.

Frith Street Gallery, London, until 31 October 2014 New Dehli - born collaborators Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta — known collectively as Raqs Media Collective — are artist - historians, the works on view in their show at London's Frith Street (titled Corrections to the First Draft of History) comprised of material such as archived newspapers and a video re-enactment of a run on a Shanghai bank, which took place during the Chinese Civil War and was captured by Cartier - Bresson.

The exhibition Emancipating the Past presents three narrative portfolio series, executed in print — The Emancipation Approximation (1999 — 2000), Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters (2010)-- accompanied by single works that underline Walker's employment of Antebellum and Reconstruction - era imagery and themes.

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester A new show of UK artists» responses to the Spanish civil war is dominated by Picasso's emotive works, but British artists also realised Spain was an ominous testing ground for future conflict

The exhibition Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery & Power presents three narrative portfolio series, executed in print — The Emancipation Approximation (1999 — 2000), Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters (2010)-- accompanied by single works that underline Walker's employment of Antebellum and Reconstruction - era imagery and themes.

Gun Country is compiled of more than 40 works ranging from an albumen print by Timothy H. O'Sullivan taken during the Civil War; photographs documenting pivotal scenes of 1968, including the assassination of Bobby Kennedy; to contemporary works by artists Andy Warhol, Carroll Dunham, and others.

Extending a body of work Perret developed for her solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the figurative sculpture is a direct reference to Wittig's text and inspired by soldiers in the YPJ, a female - only Kurdish militia currently fighting in the Syrian civil war.

Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video documents in the public realm, the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad's work is informed by his upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975 — 91), and by the socioeconomic and military policies that have shaped the Middle East in the past few decades.

While discussions of Nauman's video works from this period have focused on issues of performativity, endurance, and the body, Ligon was interested in how Nauman's discordant note can be heard as a soundtrack to the war in Vietnam or the brutal violence faced by civil rights workers.

Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid's cotton.com, 2002 is a major work which celebrates an important but little - known act of solidarity by Manchester mill workers at the time of the American Civil War.

A Huffington Post blog notes, «Jarvis also worked for universal access to medicine for the poor [and was] a pacifist who served both sides in the Civil War by working for camp sanitation and medical care for soldiers of the North and the South.»

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