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Austrian idiosyncrasy.(When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 )(Book review)
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August 1, 2007|
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WHEN BUILDINGS SPEAK: ARCHITECTURE AS LANGUAGE IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1867-1933
By Anthony Alofsin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. $65
When architects think about Austria it will be Vienna in the days of Wagner, the Sezession and Loos that spring to mind, that remnant imperial city torn between waltzes and Volk, schlag and spies, and latterly home to the magical expressionism of Hollein (hugely underestimated), the psychodiagrams of Himmelblau (now part of the academic establishment there) or the cool neo-functionalism of ...
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Lumiere films look back on lost world
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...movies survived because Lumiere, who died in 1948, kept...exemplary of the work of Lumiere. I hope that we will...programs more." Despite Louis Lumiere's enormous contribution...directors) Eric Rohmer and Jean-Luc Godard, no one...
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Now and Then
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...III; 1721 Dr William Wilkie, the "Scottish Homer" (Dalmeny); 1830 Chester Arthur, 21st US President; 1864 Louis Jean Lumiere, French pioneer of photography; 1917 Robert Adams, sculptor and designer; 1919 Robin Bailey, actor (Uncle Mort...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Critic's choice.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...including Spike Lee and Costa-Gavras pay homage to Jean Louis and Auguste Lumiere, the French brothers who invented the first film camera in 1895, on "Lumiere and Company" (IFC, 9:15 p.m. Sunday) Each...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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Team Arrows receives third Beard nomination
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine)
; ...for culinary professionals. Other chefs nominated in the Northeast category are Jean-Louis Gerin of Jean-Louis in Greenwich, Conn.; Michael Leviton of Lumiere in West Newton, Mass.; Frank McClelland of L'Espalier in Boston; and Marc...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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Golden years of the towns collection of silver screens.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
; ...years ago, on December 28, 1895, with the Lumiere brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean, showing films to a paying public at the...a train arriving at Calais station (a Lumiere film) and the running of the Derby wowed...
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Lost films of Lumieres found in biscuit tin
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...It is very rare to discover Lumiere works These were not distributed...completely unknown." Another Lumiere expert, Jean-Christophe Ienne, said the...movies come to be in the attic? Louis Lumiere was on the board of administration...
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Monique C. Cormier et Jean-Claude Boulanger, dir. Les dictionnaires de la langue francaise au Quebec. De la Nouvelle-France a aujaurd'hui.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
; ...Monique C. Cormier et Jean-Claude Boulanger...Monique C. Cormier et Jean-Claude Boulanger...lexicographes quebecois a la lumiere d'une these originale...C'est ce que Louis Mercier met en lumiere dans sa brillante...bibliotheconomie, et Jean Pruvost, linguiste...
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FILM: THE FIVE BEST REVIVALS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; My Night With Maud (Thur 8.45pm NFT1) Jean-Louis Trintignant and Francoise Fabian star in Rohmer...always a problem in LA. The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (Mon 6.30pm Cine Lumiere) In its authoritative portrait of vicious power...
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Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Pendragon Press, 1992] and Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre...the blind Parisian organist Jean Langlais (1907-1991), who...complementing the 1995 French biography Jean Langlais (1907-1991): Ombre et lumiere by his second wife, Marie...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Emperor of Germany, 1797. Deaths: Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer, 1687...Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, 1832; Louis Delluc, film director, screenwriter...Angerstein, 1824; Auguste and Louis Lumiere made the first demonstration of motion...
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