This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im del walters. The university of missouri president has resigned about two hours ago. They called in emergency session to address the grows protest against recent acts of racism on campus. Im resigning as president of the university of missouri. The motivation for this decision comes from a love. I love mu, columbia, where i grew up, and the state of missouri. I thought and prayed about this decision. Its the right thing to do. Al jazeeras andy rosen is live for us. How much pressure was on the University Board to do something . Enormous pressure, del. You can see a lot of students here are winding down from the celebration theyve been having all morning long in response to president tim wolfs resignation. There have been a number of racial incidents that have occurred over the last few years including the use of the n. Word on campus. Members of the University Football team said that they would not practice or play unless tim wolf res
The first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable theyve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. Theres no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. Although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. But it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself plancks quantum theory, einsteins theory of relativity, freuds work on psychoanalysis. It was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic work in view of the tragedies of modern western history. Freud wrote and publis
Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project the first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable theyve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. Theres no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. Although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. But it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself plancks quantum theory, einsteins theory of relativity, freuds work on psychoanalysis. It was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic work in view of the trage
Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project the first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable theyve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. Theres no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. Although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. But it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself plancks quantum theory, einsteins theory of relativity, freuds work on psychoanalysis. It was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic work in view of the trage
Narrator Paul Gauguins life was the stuff of romantic fiction a tale as exotic and astonishing as his paintings. Born in france, he was raised in peru. A sailor in his teens, a stockbroker in his twenties, by the age of 35 he was a married father of four and a colltor of paintings he bought wo from Edouard Manet and the impressionists Camille Pissarro and edgar degas. And then, a plot twist. In 1882, seid by the desire to create rather than collect art, he cast it all away. Rejecting the fetters of bourgeois society, he began a search for artistic purity that would last r the rest of his life. He scoured the most remote areas of france and its colonies for subjects, restlessly scraping away the veneer of civilization to search for deeper truths and redefine the course of painting. And he died in poverty only to be widely recognized as a genius later generatis. But gauguiwas more than a character in his story. He was the creator of paul gauguin, the visionary artist and mythmaker. From