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swing1 a discernible change in opinion, especially the amount by which votes or points scored change from one side to another. The word in this sense is recorded from the late 19th century.
Also, a style of jazz or dance music with an easy flowing but vigorous rhythm; the term is recorded from the end of the 19th century.
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The fleeting image. (sculpture, Medardo Rosso, Kent Gallery and Guggenheim Museum; New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...monumental and permanent, the late 19th-century sculptor Medardo Rosso anticipated many of today's doubts about the status...sculptors of the late 19th century -- Rodin, Degas and Medardo Rosso -- Rosso was certainly the dark horse. However, with...
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Medardo Rosso: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, 7 novembre - 23 fevrier.
Magazine article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...adequat qu'elles reclament continument. L'exposition Medardo Rosso (Turin, 1858 - Milan, 1928) echappe a ce vice de...certains, par ecrit ou verbalement [cf. Giovanni Lista, Medardo Rosso, destin d'un sculpteur, Paris, L'Echoppe, 1994...
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CASTING CHANGE SACKLER SHOW MAKES CLEAR MEDARDO ROSSO'S ROLE IN DEFINING MODERN SCULPTURE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...at Harvard's Sackler Museum, "Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions," couldn...and its burly self-confidence, Rosso's c. 1894 "Bookmaker" anticipates...Balzac." The first big impression Rosso made in America was in a 1963 exhibition...
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Medardo Rosso.(Winterthur, Switzerland)(sculpture and drawings)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/2003; 522 words
; ...WINTERTHUR True to his surname, Medardo Rosso was a fiery spirit who escaped ottocento...environments from the following decade. Rosso urged viewers to "forget the material...University Art Museums focusing on Rosso's casting process offers a nice...
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Medardo Rosso
Magazine article from: Artforum; 9/1/2003; ; 348 words
; ...WINTERTHUR True to his surname, Medardo Rosso was a fiery spirit who escaped ottocento...environments from the following decade. Rosso urged viewers to "forget the material...University Art Museums focusing on Rosso's casting process offers a nice...
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Pastiche or fake? A 'Donatello' by Medardo Rosso: in 1894 the Royal Museums in Berlin bought a small bronze that was believed to have been cast from a wax model by Donatello. Volker Krahn reveals that it is in fact an exercise in renaissance pastiche by the great 19th-century Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso--or could he have made it to be sold as a fake?(Berlin, Germany)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; [FIGURES 1-2 OMITTED] One of the most famous small bronzes in Berlin's Skulpturensammlung is a statuette of David triumphing over Goliath (Figs 1 and 2). (1) Together with a number of other bronzes, it was acquired in 1894 by Wilhelm von Bode, director of the sculpture department in Berlin's Royal
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Sculptor Rosso Coated Work in Wax As Performance Art.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 8/18/2003; 700+ words
; ...reputation of the Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) has traced a strangely...100th anniversary of the birth of Medardo Rosso last year passed without notice...Arthur M. Sackler Museum--Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions --is only...
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Rough-hewn sculptures startle at Harvard.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 8/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...to the 19th century workshop of Medardo Rosso, the Italian sculptor appeared...in 2003, the sculptures in "Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions" have the...Aurea (The Golden Age)' is Medardo Rosso's uncomfortably unusual depiction...
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Nasher Sculpture Center: Newest star shining in Texas
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL); 12/13/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...that includes works of Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin and Medardo Russo. Speaking of the lower gallery, just walking...Turrell's Tending (Blue), Matisse's The Serf, Medardo Rosso's The Flesh of Others, and Giacometti's Standing...
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Washington is chockablock wit ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/28/2002; ; 358 words
; ...have become household names. Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) is still too little...abstracted, it's a characteristic Rosso. Though its colors are subdued...Joseph H. Hirshhorn, an admirer of Rosso, bought nine of his sculptures...
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Medardo Rosso
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Medardo Rosso Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), an Italian sculptor, broke with the prevalent classic and romantic attitudes of 19th-century sculpture and in doing so became one of the first truly modern sculptors. Rosso's work is viewed as...
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Rosso, Medardo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Rosso, Medardo (1858–1928). Italian sculptor...over and developed many of his ideas. Rosso's output was fairly small; replicas...collection of his drawings are in the Museo Medardo Rosso at Barzio in Italy.
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Giacomo Manzù
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...work he discovered on a trip to Paris in 1936), and Medardo Rosso. The range of materials employed also reflected the...in the modeling properties of this material handled in Rosso's manner. Red Mask (1936) and Susanna (1937) are...
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Soffici, Ardengo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...introducing the discussion of modern art—particularly Cubism —to Italy. He championed the work of Medardo Rosso , but initially he was hostile to Futurism ; however, under the influence of Boccioni and Carrà , he became...
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Manzù, Giacomo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...Egyptian and Etruscan art, but he then turned to a more Impressionistic style owing much to the example of Rodin and Medardo Rosso . In the 1940s he simplified his style, so that although the surface of his work is often animated, the feeling it...
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