Brent Stirton, a South African photographer who roams the globe for Reportage for Getty Images, has often borne witness to elemental conflicts between humans and nature, including violence against wildlife.
From Errol Flynn's swashbucklers through George Lucas's light-saber duels, mass entertainment probably still has no better frame for the elemental mano-a-mano conflict than a sword fight.
In its first three movements this work too appears to be a comparatively calm and serene composition until the finale, which presents a gigantic conflict of elemental forces.
But the conflict is as elemental as anything can be in American political culture; it isn't ever going away.
But the conflict is as elemental as anything can be in American political culture; it isn't ever going away. Bill Clinton the necktie-eschewing, more loosely hinged 2016 edition went to New Hampshire last month to attack Bernie Sanders on behalf of his wife's Presidential campaign.
National identity remains elemental, but in almost every conflict across the globe, we are witnessing the influence of transnational linkages and networks that put a claim on community identity.
The 'most potent mixture' for 'political upheaval' is not, according to The Hawke Ascendancy, economic or social dislocation but a force apparently more elemental: 'power rivalry' fed on 'personality conflict'.
But in embracing, however lukewarmly, the possibility of renewed peace talks, he immediately alienated the right, which has grown stronger during this conflict that has raised Israelis' elemental fears about survival in the region.
Conflicting powers of opposites, including those of elemental bodies, make possible the world and all its variety; without that conflict we would have only lifeless uniformity.
From works like the epic, elemental Polaris to The Statement – the study of conflict, which I'm watching her create for Nederlands Dans Theater – Pite's instinct is always to reach through the steps for some direct connection with her audience.
Many Israelis, especially the doves, are staggered by this swift tumble from what seemed to be the brink of a resolution back down into the depths of the elemental ethnic hatred at the root of their blood-soaked conflict.
