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SIDE LIGHTS.(the day the Soviet Union dissolved)(Brief Article)
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* August 1991, only two months after Boris Yeltsin was elected president of Russia, was a turbulent time. In one short week in August, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union--the party that had once ruled Russia and much of eastern Europe--destroyed itself. The destruction began on Aug. 19, 1991, when an eight-man "emergency committee" replaced Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'etat (KOO day-TAH), an illegal seizure of power. The committee was made up of hard line Communists who feared that Gorbachev's reforms were destroying communism.
* The coup leaders ...
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Culture Minister defers export of a bust of Charles Townley by Joseph Nollekens.
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; ...a bust of Charles Townley by Joseph Nollekens(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...significance for the study of Joseph Nollekens and Charles Townley. The Committee...to keep it in the country. Joseph Nollekens, one of the foremost portrait...
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Personal Finance: MPs rally to political bids Auctioneers find a public fascination for politicians' memorabilia
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Mr Banks was after a bust by Joseph Nollekens of Charles James Fox - a snip...consignment pounds 5,773. He got his Nollekens. "For me, collecting political...itself. I could not afford the Nollekens bust, but I realised I had money...
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Heads on block
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...in the first group, Joseph Nollekens's `Charles James Fox...the old man by Samuel Joseph. All are carefully individualised...19th century - following Nollekens's practice, it was...youth. Another of Samuel Joseph's impressive busts...
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Tate finds the modern in the classical
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...art of sculpture". Artists such as Canova, Joseph Wilton, Thomas Banks and Joseph Nollekens were regarded as the Turner-esque mavericks...Thetis Dipping Achilles into the Styx, and Nollekens' Venus Chiding Cupid and Mercury. the week...
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Heroes and graces: Tate Britain's exhibition of neo-classical sculpture celebrates the return to esteem of the most admired works of their age.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...restored and copied antique sculptures and made new masterpieces. Francesco Cavaceppi and Joseph Nollekens were the two granddaddys of this trade. Nollekens is represented here by his Venus Chiding Cupid, a sinuous Giambologna-like group, made...
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Making faces ...
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...including John Cheere, Sir Frances Chantrey, Samuel Joseph and Joseph Nollekens. These have been culled from three important collections...busts in the history of British art, such as Samuel Joseph's representation of Sir David Wilkie, which dates...
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Picture perfect
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...works by John Cheere, Sir Frances Chantrey, Samuel Joseph and Joseph Nollekens. The primary emphasis here is on busts created during...British art. Examples exhibited here include Samuel Joseph's extraordinary representation of the artist Sir...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...discoverer of Wallis island, 1728; Joseph Mallord William Turner, painter...Ernst Dietrich, painter, 1774; Joseph Nollekens, sculptor, 1823; Erik Gustaf...Chawner Brooke, poet, 1915; Joseph Pennell, artist and author, 1926...
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Arts Guide
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Canova), Danish (Thorwaldsen), British (Joseph Wilton, Joseph Nollekens and Thomas Banks) - who had converged on Italy...possibly drawing on the legacies of Arte Povera and Joseph Beuys, Huang creates works that juxtapose traditional...
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ecstasies in marble The Return of the Gods: Neoclassical Sculpture in Britain Peter Doig
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...populated by rapt connoisseurs, memorably painted by Joseph Wright of Derby. Some of the most vivid works are portraits...his prime, looking up to meet the gaze of posterity. Joseph Nollekens's Sophia, Daughter of George Aufrere is a masterpiece...
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