|
Willem de Kooning, America's Dutch master.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
|
Byline: Jack Fischer
``De Kooning: An American Master'' by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan; Knopf ($35)
___
When a young would-be artist named Willem de Kooning stowed away on a ship from Rotterdam to America in the 1920s, he seemed to be heading the wrong way if his plan was to succeed in the art world. Back then, as any American would tell you, Paris was the place to be.
Of course, there's following art history and then there's making it, and de Kooning was destined to do the latter.
As compellingly recounted in "De Kooning: An ...
|
BRITAIN AD 1.(Britain at the first millennium AD)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...in order to deal with his invasion. He described a King Cassivellaunus at the head of that empire, a high-king commanding lesser...broadly identifiable as Kent. Of course, his depiction of Cassivellaunus served to give him a worthy adversary, whose conquest could...
|
|
Foray into Britain.(Julius Caesar)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...resisted bravely, Caesar quickly captured their leader, Cassivellaunus, but it was a hollow victory. Many British fighters remained...the forests and continued to harass the Romans. Also, Cassivellaunus had little gold, silver, or tin to offer his captors...
|
|
Revealed: our friends the Romans did not invade Britain after all Astonishing new archaeological finds reveal they were already our countrymen 50 years before Claudius spun his way into the history books. Steve Bloomfield reports
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...landed in Dover before marching towards London, defeating Cassivellaunus the King of Catuvellauni in Hertfordshire. News of an impending...the Trinovantes appealed to Caesar to protect them from Cassivellaunus who had run a series of raids into their territory. Dr...
|
|
Inside INFO
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...disclosed form on heavy tracks. Talk Back did not have much luck at Wanganui last start and looks to be coming solid. Cassivellaunus and Walter are both recent placegetters over this trip and must be top chances if they can cop the track. RACE 2: Matamata...
|
|
Albion Ablaze and A View to a Death.(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch
; ...Marcus. However, in this and the next year, in which Caesar carries out a full scale invasion to unseat the tyrant, Cassivellaunus, Marcus plays a role wholly unsuspected by historians (while still remaining credibly within Caesar's version of the...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Willem de Kooning, America's Dutch master.(Knight ..."
