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Adam, Henri-Georges
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Adam, Henri-Georges (1904–1967). French sculptor, graphic artist, and designer, born in Paris, the son of a jeweller and goldsmith. He studied metalwork with his father and initially made his reputation with etchings, winning the Blumenthal Prize for them in 1938. In 1943 he had his first major success as a designer with scenery and costumes for Jean-Paul Sartre's play
Les Mouches. Adam also became a noted tapestry designer, but increasingly he was known for sculpture, which he took up in 1939. In this field he was encouraged by
Picasso, who met him in 1943 and lent him both his studio in Paris and his chateau at Boisgeloup, where the coach-house had been converted into a studio particularly suitable for large-scale work. Adam's early sculpture was figurative and conceived in large expressive planes, somewhat in the manner of
Brancusi; later he did geometrical abstracts, influenced by
Arp, which he sometimes decorated with engraved patterns. His work included several large public monuments, notably the
Beacon of the Dead (1957–8) at Auschwitz and
Swan (1964) at the Porte de Vincennes, Paris.
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Henry Adams is the subject of a colloquium and lectures by Garry Wills at Yale.
M2 Presswire; 2/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...February 2003-YALE UNIVERSITY: Henry Adams is the subject of a colloquium...02282003 New Haven, Conn. -- Henry Adams-his life, work and influence...England during the Civil War. Henry Adams worked as a personal secretary...
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Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams, His Second Life, 1862-1891.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Americans represented in intellectual history, Henry Adams stands head and shoulders above the rest. Any...nineteenth century is incomplete without considering Henry Adams, and now any study of Henry Adams will be incomplete without considering Edward...
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Henry Adams, Sleuth
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/17/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...of a few weeks in the life of Henry Adams, the historian and memoirist...would confront in The Education of Henry Adams. Readers who share my uneasiness...this is warranted, chiefly when "Henry Adams" does things that one finds it...
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Henry Adams
Magazine article from: Human Events; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Improvement of the World A Biography of Henry Adams: His Last Life, 18911918, by...Archon Books, 721 pages, $55 Henry Adams: The Historian as Political Theorist...uninspired, interpretation of Henry Adams's distinctively American political...
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DECONSTRUCTING HENRY (ADAMS)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/13/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...two decades of the 19th century, Henry Adams, according to Garry Wills...have anointed "The Education of Henry Adams," published posthumously in 1918...institutionally, to fulfill its destiny. "Henry Adams and the Making of America" is...
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Henry Adams & the Southern Question
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Henry Adams & the Southern Question * Michael...Michael O'Brien surveys the life of Henry Adams to contextualize one of the most influential...intellectualism. In The Education of Henry Adams (1918), Adams commented that "the...
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Henry Adams and the Southern Question
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Henry Adams and the Southern Question. By Michael...Southern Question" as it pertained to Henry Adams, who put his own stamp on it in his...of admitting two" (The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography [Boston, 1918...
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Henry Adams and the Southern Question.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Henry Adams and the Southern Question. By Michael...Southern Question" as it pertained to Henry Adams, who put his own stamp on it in his...of admitting two" (The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography [Boston, 1918...
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Interview: Garry Wills discusses his book "Henry Adams and the Making of America"
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 9/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Garry Wills discusses his book "Henry Adams and the Making of America" Host...If Americans know anything about Henry Adams, they probably know that he is...autobiography, "The Education of Henry Adams," or his novel, "Democracy...
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Henry Adams and the Making of America.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parameters; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Henry Adams and the Making of America. By Garry Wills...America, he takes on a written text, Henry Adams's History of the United States of America...characteristic of the later book Education of Henry Adams rather than the optimism found in the...
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Henry Adams
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Adams 1838-1918, American writer and historian...own era, presented in The Education of Henry Adams (privately printed 1906, pub. 1918...Brooks Adams and prefaced with a memoir by Henry Adams, contains three brilliant essays on his...
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Henry Brooks Adams
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...period with great perception. He is best known for "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres" and "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams was born in Boston on Feb. 16, 1838, the fourth of seven children of Charles Francis and Abigail Brooks Adams...
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Adams, Henry (1838-1918)
Book article from: American Eras
Henry Adams (1838-1918) Historian, writer Illustrious...Family. Born in Massachusetts in 1838, Henry Adams was descended from a long line of distinguished...s. A Passion for History. In 1868 Henry Adams returned to Washington and, appalled...
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Adams, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Adams, Henry (1838–1918), historian...Presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams . Henry grew up in Boston, summering at the...certainty. The result was his Education of Henry Adams (1904, 1918), a brilliant but often...
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Adams, Henry (Brooks)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Adams, Henry [Brooks] (1838–1918...brother Brooks Adams . This work sets forth Henry Adams's dynamic theory of history. The second...century multiplicity, The Education of Henry Adams (1907). The skepticism and cynicism...
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