George Barnwell, The History of, or The London Merchant
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George Barnwell, The History of, or The London Merchant, a domestic tragedy in prose by
Lillo, produced 1731. In this play, for the first time, everyday commercial life is made the theme of tragedy. Based on an old ballad, it tells the story of an innocent young apprentice, Barnwell, who is seduced by a heartless courtesan, Millwood. She encourages him to rob his employer, Thorowgood, and to murder his uncle, for which crime both are brought to execution, he profoundly penitent and she defiant.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ART MUSEUM LUNCHTIME TALK TO FOCUS ON FUTURIST DESIGNS OF EL LISSITZKY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/7/2008; 519 words
; ...release: In conjunction with "El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios," on view...lunchtime talk Oct. 14 at noon. "El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios" features...abstract artist Lazar Markovich (El) Lissitzky's futuristic portfolios, commissioned...
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Beyond El Lissitzky's 'Red Wedge': Looking at Soviet Photography
Newspaper article from: Forward; 12/27/1996; ; 700+ words
; Amei Wallach Forward 12-27-1996 Beyond El Lissitzky's `Red Wedge': Looking at Soviet Photography Through...instead of literal scenes. That meant art such as El Lissitzky's Suprematist poster "Beat the Whites with the Red...
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EXTRAORDINARY COLLABORATION BRINGS LISSITZKY SHOW TO US
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/4/1987; ; 700+ words
; EL LISSITZKY, an exhibition organized by curator Peter Nisbet at the Arthur...Galerie Moritzburg, in Halle, East Germany. Through Nov. 29. El (for Eleazar) Lissitzky was the artist of a future that never arrived. One of the seminal...
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"Proyectos para la afirmación de lo nuevo".(Lasar M. Lissitzky, poeta Ruso)(TT: "Projects for the confirmation of the new".)(TA: Lasar M. Lissitzky, Russian poet)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 7/12/1999; 700+ words
; El Lissitzky en el MACBA de Barcelona NO tengo muy...personificar ese momento de cambio. El Lissitzky (Lasar Morduchowitsch Lissitzky, Potschinok...Lo mismo ha sucedido con la obra de El Lissitzky, vanguardista radical que una el arte...
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En el Palazzo Grassi, de Venecia: "Cosmos": doscientos años de progreso.(exposición de arte)(TT: At the Grassi Palace, in Venice: "Cosmos", two hundred years of progress.)(TA: art exhibition)(Artículo Breve)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 4/9/2000; 700+ words
; ...sentimiento puro, las ciudades ingrvidas, el sentido de espacio abierto del suprematismo...de Malevicht, Kandinsky, Soutin, El Lissitzky y con los actuales Kabakov y Bibikov...estructuras frgiles que apuntan hacia el infinito. Naturalmente, segn la exposicin...
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An Avant-Gardist's Song of Freedom
Newspaper article from: Forward; 4/2/2004; ; 535 words
; ...reissued Russian Jewish artist El Lissitzky's 1919 illustrated book of this...introduction and sheet music, present Lissitzky's pictorial representations of...Getty holds an original copy of Lissitzky's "Had Gadya," recently acquired...
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Swiss museum reaches out of court deal on Kandinsky painting
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/2/2002; ; 614 words
; ...Century art. In a joint statement, Lissitzky and Beyeler said the painting would...The 1910 painting was part of Lissitzky-Kueppers' collection of some...Russian avant-garde artist, El Lissitzky. In 1937, the Nazis confiscated...
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
Newspaper article from: Forward; 4/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...scenes depicted." The artist El Lissitzky used similar images to great effect...Paul Getty Trust Publications. Lissitzky, a Russian Jew and communist...the Soviet Union was under way. Lissitzky's illustrations, influenced...
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Kandinsky painting, looted by Nazis, to remain in Swiss museum
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/3/2002; ; 508 words
; ...according to authoritative sources. Jen Lissitzky, the son of the avant-garde artist El Lissitzky, had filed suit last April in a Swiss...return an object after five years. After El Lissitzky died in 1941, Kppers-Lissitzky was exiled...
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Swiss Museum Makes Deal on Painting
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/3/2002; ; 396 words
; ...Century art. In a joint statement, Lissitzky and Beyeler said the painting would...The 1910 painting was part of Lissitzky-Kueppers' collection of some...married Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky. In 1937, the Nazis confiscated...
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El Lissitzky
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
El Lissitzky (Eliezer Markovich Lissitzky) , 1890-1941, Russian painter, designer, teacher, and architect. Lissitzky studied at Darmstadt and later taught at the Moscow Academy...
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Lissitzky, El
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Lissitzky, El ( Lazar Lissitzky ) (1890–1941). Russian painter, designer, graphic...the art school at Vitebsk and in the following year he appointed Lissitzky professor of architecture and graphic art. One of his colleagues...
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Lissitzky, Eleazar Markevich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Lissitzky, Eleazar Markevich ( Lazar' called El ) (1890–1941...x2013;1935) and Tatlin , Lissitzky helped to organize Malevich...x2013;1); Jervis (1984); Lissitzky (1970, 1981); Ly-Kü...
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Constructivism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...elements of the design. One of the key figures was El Lissitzky , who was the link between Russian Constructivism and...1987); Kopp (1970); Lampugnani (ed.) (1988); Lissitzky (1970, 1981); Ly-Küppers (1980...
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Vesch/Gegenstand/Objet
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...German, French) periodical founded in Berlin in 1922 by El Lissitzky and the Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg with the object...Constructivism in the rest of Europe. For this broad audience Lissitzky modified the doctrinaire rejection of non-utilitarian...
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