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Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett.(Book Review)
The Modern Language Review
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April 1, 2004|
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Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett. By. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xi+201 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-92393-6.
Not only have concepts of the tragic for centuries been central to Western culture, but from Sophocles through Shakespeare to Racine and beyond, the high points of the genre have been seen as the pinnacles of literature. Theories of tragedy, furthermore, have attracted the most distinguished figures in the history of ideas from Aristotle onward. McDonald's study interests itself in the ways in which this ...
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Shaw, Jennifer L. Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; Shaw, Jennifer L. Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France. New Haven...08382-3 At the time of his death in 1898, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was the most broadly accepted of artists in France...
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The lost father of Modernism? The washed-out compositions of Puvis de Chavannes were once a byword for insipid classicism. Now he is being hailed as a precursor of modern art. But does a show at the National Gallery strengthen his claim?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Puvis: if the name doesn't trip off...has been taking another turn, and Pierre- Cecile Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) - Puvis for short...exhibition in Venice - called From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: Toward Modern...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Culture: Reviews: Barber puts its pride on show; Puvis de Chavannes: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Barber Institute.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...Terry Grimley At first sight, Pierre-Cecil Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) looks like a...the Baptist which preoccupied Puvis in the late 1860s. Both are...images of 19th century art: Puvis de Chavannes' The Beheading of Saint John...
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Art: Puvis de chavannes
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Around 150 years ago, Pierre-Cecile Puvis de Chavannes was convalescing in Italy when...and Hotel de Ville in Paris. Chavannes was fascinated by the story...plate. This week, two of Chavannes' versions - one from the National...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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There's a beauty in barbarity; Art.(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; Byline: PHILIP HENSHER Puvis de Chavannes: The Beheading Of Saint John The Baptist National...hear the first stirrings of Hitler's bloodlust. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes' Beheading Of Saint John The Baptist is one of...
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LITERARY LUSTER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...part of a large wall mural by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. The mural, 20 feet high...along with eight others by Puvis de Chavannes, which use classical images...its $16 million goal. The Puvis de Chavannes murals were painted on canvas...
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In Arcadian vision, the seeds of modern art
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; 00-00-0000 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was unusual in the annals of commercially...Grassi' s latest show, ''From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: Toward...scratching their heads and saying ''Puvis de Who?''However, the thesis...
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Infleuncing the course of painting
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...century painting was none other than Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-98). All 36 rooms of...and simplified compositions, Puvis liberated the human figure from...the catalogue does, proposing Puvis as patriarch, an Abraham...
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Margaret Werth. The Joy of Life: the Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...French painters: the symbolist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, the neo-impressionist Paul...multi-figure landscape by each: Puvis's L'ete (Summer) of 1891...what extent the vocabularies of Puvis, Signac, and Matisse, in particular...
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Bloodless but vital Art
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...especially in this country - Pierre-Cecile Puvis de Chavannes. And yet he had a profound...Baptist (until October 27) - Puvis de Chavannes was the hidden factor in...wanted to be modern too. Puvis de Chavannes was the bridge between the...
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