Jean Baptiste Lemoyne
Jean Baptiste Lemoyne , 1704-78, French sculptor. Much of his work, including three equestrian statues of Louis XV, was destroyed in the French Revolution. His picturesque portrait busts of Voltaire, Fontenelle, and Mme de Pompadour are considered his best work. He was the teacher of Houdon, Pigalle, Falconet, and Pajou.
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August Wilson: A Research and Production Sourcebook.(Review)
Magazine article from: African American Review; 12/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Yvonne Shafer. August Wilson: A Research and Production...curtains to rise on Act III of August Wilson's ongoing crusade...unchartered dimensions of Wilson's career as a dramatist...one-time reference to August Wilson as "a child of...
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Commentary: August Wilson
Transcript from: NPR Special; 9/15/2005; ; 549 words
; ...15-2005 Commentary: August Wilson Host: ED GORDON Time...the Los Angeles run of August Wilson's "Radio Gulf...seeing four of August Wilson's plays, one critic...best. Like most people, August Wilson probably would...
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A Tribute to August Wilson
Magazine article from: Black Masks; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The untimely death of August Wilson at the age of sixty is a tragic loss...that the death of a loved one brings, August Wilson is sorely missed by Black artists...met death pridefully and manfully. August Wilson burst into the American theatre...
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Theater community reflects on August Wilson
Newspaper article from: New York Amsterdam News; 10/12/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...winning playwright August Wilson died this past Sunday...has seen an August Wilson play knows that they...underway to honor Wilson for his works and...will be renamed the August Wilson Theatre...doing a reading of August Wilson's work...
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August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; Kim Pereira. August Wilson and the African-American...Critical discourse on August Wilson's dramatic agenda...critical perspectives on Wilson in their recently published...s best known plays. August Wilson and the African...
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August Wilson: A Blues-Driven Journey to Broadway
Magazine article from: Black Masks; 6/30/1996; ; 700+ words
; August Wilson: A Blues-Driven Journey to Broadway...pecked out his name, "Frederick August Kittel." Then, he added his mother's maiden name, "Wilson." By the time he had selected August Wilson from the array of names...
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Framing African American cultural identity: The Bookends Plays in August Wilson's 10-Play Cycle.(Essay)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Cultural Identity: The Bookends Plays in August Wilson's 10-Play Cycle In various interviews, August Wilson admitted that a" special relationship...2005, 4-5) Understandably, then, August Wilson may be regarded as the consummate cultural...
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`August Wilson's 20th Century' puts his plays in perspective
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/29/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...drama. Ten plays by August Wilson opened here (nine...who shepherded Wilson's last two plays...Kreidler says. All of August's criteria for...of the unofficial Wilson acting company such...dealing with veteran August Wilson actors, Kreidler...
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Profile: August Wilson's one-man show "How I Learned What I Learned"
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 5/23/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...00-0000 Profile: August Wilson's one-man show How...greatest living playwrights, August Wilson, is stepping in...shall return.' SILLMAN: Wilson says he's got hours...for the one-man show, August Wilson turned to his assistant...
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Profile: Playwright August Wilson dies
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 10/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...2005 Profile: Playwright August Wilson dies Host: RENEE MONTAGNE...RENEE MONTAGNE, host: August Wilson died yesterday...playwrights festival. So Wilson wrote "Ma Rainey's...of the 20th century. August Wilson lived long enough...
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August Wilson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
August Wilson Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright August Wilson (Frederick August Kittell; born 1945) embarked upon a mission to write a cycle of ten plays addressing central issues that have impacted African Americans in...
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Wilson, August 1945–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
August Wilson 1945 – Playwright...Struggling Playwright ” August Wilson is one of America...2001. his mother, Daisy Wilson, managed to keep her children clothed and fed. August ’ s father, Frederick...
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Wilson, August 1945–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
August Wilson 1945 – Playwright...Rothstein in the New York Times , August Wilson has written a string...read at the age of four, Wilson consumed books voraciously...interest in the written word, August Wilson was an unexceptional...
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Wilson, August 1945-
Book article from: American Decades
WILSON, AUGUST 1945- Playwright Pittsburgh Growing up in "The Hill," an African American slum community in Pittsburgh, August Wilson was a voracious reader who was fascinated with words — with...
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Wilson, August
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Wilson, August (1945– ), major...is a run-down house in Pittsburgh (Wilson's home town), the action covering 1957...Blacks in transit from the South. In 1990 Wilson won a second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano...
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