angry
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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angry angry white male a right-wing or anti-liberal white man, especially a working-class one; the term is first recorded in the US in the early 1990s.
angry young man a young man dissatisfied with and outspoken against existing social and political structures, originally, a member of a group of socially conscious writers in the 1950s, including particularly the playwright John Osborne. The phrase, the title of a book (1951) by Leslie Paul, was used of Osborne in the publicity material for his play
Look Back in Anger (1956), in which the characteristic views were articulated by the anti-hero Jimmy Porter.
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Piranesi, architect of the imagination.(Columbia University's exhibit of works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi)
Magazine article from: The Chronicle of Higher Education; 3/5/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Rome in the mid-1700s, Giovanni Battista Piranesi turned to the paper arts...Those are the aspects of Piranesi's work explored in an exhibition...A Selection of Works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi" includes 80 drawings, etchings...
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Piranesi: the aesthetic of eclecticism and his Egyptian style.(Giovanni Battista Piranesi )(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Giovanni Battista Piranesi is undoubtedly best known for his...fashioned visionary of design reform, Piranesi advocated the creative recombination...ornaments and new manners. (1) Piranesi articulated these ideas in response...
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Observations on the letter of Monsieur Mariette with opinions on architecture, and a preface to a new treatise on the introduction and progress of the fine arts in Europe in ancient times.(Peter Harbison. 'Our treasure of antiquities' Beranger & Bigari's antiquarian sketching tour of Connacht in 1779--based on material in the National Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy.)(Book Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2003; 700+ words
; GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI. Observations on the letter of Monsieur...Wordwell; 1-869857-53-4 hardback. PIRANESI's reaction to the argument for Greek...antiquarian tour made 15 years after PIRANESI published, illustrating them with...
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Displeasure of ruins: Piranesi and the monuments of ancient Rome: Piranesi's depictions of the ruins of ancient Rome had enormous influence, but they have been widely misunderstood. As Lola Kantor-Kazovsky argues, they were not intended to provoke pleasurable reflections on the effects of time: they are instead tragic images of the wheel of fortune.(Giovanni Battista Piranesi)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; A recurring dilemma in Piranesi studies is the question whether the...generated neoclassical taste in Europe, Piranesi cannot simply be understood in the...in point. It was once claimed that Piranesi's passion for Roman ruins makes...
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Piranesi's images inspire works from Poe to video games
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 12/28/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the exhibition "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture...connection to the Piranesi works. Add to that several prints by Piranesi's contemporaries, Giovanni Antonio Canal...and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696...
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Piranesi's Ruins, Still in Good Standing; 18th-Century Etchings Pass the Test of Time
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/26/1998; ; 700+ words
; Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an 18th-century architect who...their fame today is worldwide. A Piranesi exhibition is therefore a holiday...assembling an assortment of more than 300 Piranesi prints. As a result, the first floor...
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Master Architect Of the Fallen Arch; Piranesi Etchings Evoke a Rome in Ruins
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/23/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...But there is nothing like a Piranesi etching to convey the collapse...century architect and artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. With a vivid imagination and...the artist's epic visions. Piranesi exploded scale in ways that...
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Painting in 3D: Piranesi style. (Informatix's paint software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
Magazine article from: Computer Graphics World; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...change the way you work, but Piranesi from Informatix is one such...architect and illustrator, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, this application allows you...number of painting styles. With Piranesi, models from such popular programs...
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Prison reform; MFA exhibition shows Piranesi couldn't escape.(Scene)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 5/25/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...sunlight, the chambers of artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi's prisons sprawl toward infinity...in the contemporary buildings Piranesi saw around him, nor even in...prisons were complete inventions. Piranesi was a master observer of architecture...
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Piranesi's defence of Roman architectural invention.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review; 12/1/2003; 700+ words
; 4356 Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Observations on the Letter by...index. Pbk. Price: $US 35.00. Piranesi ( 1720-1778) lived during the...History of the Art of Antiquity). Piranesi would have none of it. He argued...
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Italian engraver and architect, is best known for his etchings of ancient and baroque Rome and grandiose architectural constructions of his own imagination. Giovanni Battista...
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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720–1778)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1720 – 1778) PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1720 – 1778), Venetian architect, engraver, and archaeologist. By means of over a thousand etched plates and his theoretical defense of creative...
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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720–78). Venetian...altar for the Church of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome. Piranesi developed his scheme to include...This Aventine commission was Piranesi's only building, but it is...
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...by the view of antiquity of the Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi, which was essentially a romantic one strongly tinged...elements of fantasy. It was in large measure from Piranesi that Ledoux's fondness for the dramatic derived...
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Archaeology
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...the topography of Rome by architects such as Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1471), Andrea Palladio...1764). Architects visited the temples of Paestum (Giovanni Battista Piranesi) and Sicily and Greece (James Stuart and Nicholas...
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