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Ford Madox Ford; A Mirror to His Times
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FORD MADOX FORD By Alan Judd
Harvard. 476 pp. $27.50
MOTHERS, don't let your children grow up to be writers. If your
fresh-cheeked college grad announces that he or she plans to be a
novelist, a woman of letters or even a poet, immediately place Alan
Judd's enthralling new biography of Ford Madox Ford into the
innocent one's hands. It's guaranteed to make law school or an MBA
look mighty attractive. Though not quite the saddest story - that
epithet belongs to another tale - Ford's life is still quite sad
enough. The author of The Good Soldier, Parade's End and rather too
much else was the ...
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MASTERLY DUTCH ART
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Sutton and P. J. J. van Theil. At the Boston...the Fogg's stunning van Ruisdael show seven years...Flemish painters such as Gillis van Coninxloo and David Vinckbooms...legendary happenings. Coninxloo's forests are dusky...
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Arts Guide
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...siblings as the von Alts, Brueghels, Carraccis, van Eycks, up to the 20th century with the Duchamps...paper by Dutch and Flemish painters such as Jan van Amstel, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Gillis van Coninxloo, Jan van Goyen, Philips Koninck and Jacob...
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Spatial distribution and the animal landscape.
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...after floral still lifes, along with those of Jan Brueghel the Elder, Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, and Gillis van Coninxloo, which they surpassed in tonal quality and realism, mark the beginning of the great age of Dutch flower painting...
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Painting from life nature's unpredictable menagerie.(ABOUT THE COVER)(Jan Brueghel's paintings depicting nature)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...Brueghel hardly knew his father. Orphaned soon after his birth in Brussels, he studied with Pieter Goctkind and Gillis van Coninxloo in Antwerp, learned watercolor painting from his grandmother Mayken Verhulst, and flourished under the patronage...
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