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CHANGING TIMES
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New year, new future. Kim Knight
asks the experts how we'll be working, learning - and eating - a
decade from now.
J ULIUS SEXTUS Frontinus stepped out of the time machine, typed
his name into Google, and cringed.
Forecasters have been getting it wrong forever, but the Roman
engineer's oft-quoted proclamation, circa 10AD, takes some beating.
"Inventions reached their limit long ago," he said. "I see no hope
for further development."
No wonder then, that when the Sunday Star-Times went looking for
"the next big thing", experts were reluctant to stick their necks
out.
"Who'd have thought ...
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McClelland, Charles E. Prophets, Paupers, or Professionals? A Social History of Everyday Visual Artists in Modern Germany, 1850- Present.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books
; ...equivalents of a Meissonier--such as the Munich painter, Franz von Lenbach, whose palatial home near the central train station...wonderful collection of Kandinsky and Munter paintings. Lenbach would be shocked to see these works, given his conservative...
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The Body Electric; From Rome to Dublin, Europe's art museums offer a dazzling range of works that glorify the human image.(Calendar)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International
; ...of course, lie on the Italian side of the Alps. Franz von Lenbach (at the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, through Aug. 8...turned pessimistic, mind you. It's just that with Lenbach (1836- 1904) they got wistful and romantic, seeming...
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THE FRYE TAKES THE EDGE OFF OF WINTER.(Getaways)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...number of portraits, including a somber Otto Von Bismarck, the German chancellor, by Franz von Lenbach. One exception to the otherwise ``heavy...Also represented among the Munich artists are Franz von Stuck, Max Liebermann, Wilhelm Diez...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...biographer, 1815; Ernst Werner von Siemens, inventor, 1816; Edwin...Joseph Noel Paton, painter, 1821; Franz von Lenbach, painter, 1836; Lucien-Germain...Tartaglia, mathematician, 1557; Konrad von Gesner, physician and naturalist...
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DEATH-OBSESSED ROBLETO MIXES, MATCHES AND TURNS ART ON ITS INTERACTIVE HEAD.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...sensibilities, seem poignant, not kitschy. Gabriel von Max's "Madonna and Child" looks incredibly creepy - the child looks dead. Robleto made me see Franz von Lenbach's romantic, sentimental 1895 oil of his daughter Marion...
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TOURNIER'S SUMPTUOUS 'SPIRIT'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...259 pp. $19.95. The painting on the dust-jacket, "The Little Shepherd" by 19th-century German artist Franz von Lenbach, depicts a Maxfield Parrish sky and a barefoot boy sprawled among meadow flowers and shading his eyes beneath the...
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Pleasure & politics: Cranach's the judgement of Paris: the Kimbell recently acquired an extremely well preserved Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Nancy E. Edwards explores the painting's meaning and investigates the possibility that it was made for Hendrik III, Count of Nassau-Breda, whose portrait by Gossaert is also in the museum.(Kimbell Art Museum )
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...whereabouts are unknown before its acquisition by the leading German portrait painter of the late 19th century, Franz von Lenbach (1836-1904), who collected old master paintings. (1) There is, however, an intriguing possibility that...
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Gordonstoun portrait comes out of closet for art auction
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...found hidden in a cupboard by staff at Gordonstoun School, goes under the hammer today in Perth. The painting is by Franz von Lenbach, a prominent German portrait artist of his day, who painted Gladstone when the politician visited Germany. It...
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DARIO ROBELTO ATTEMPTS, AND FAILS, TO OPEN A NEW EYE ONTO THE LIFE OF EMMA FRYE.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...This is ridiculous. Surely this meatpacker's wife was not a martyr (Gabriel Cornelius Ritter) or a hero (Franz von Lenbach). If she owned a painting of a lion, would Robelto call her stout-hearted? Her husband liked paintings of ducks...
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FRYE'S TANGLED PORTRAIT EXHIBIT REWARDS THOSE WHO PERSEVERE.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...same piece. I add this so I won't sound like a thug. To give Byrne her due, I enjoyed 19th-century German Franz von Lenbach for the first time, maybe because she hung not only his creepy portraits of elderly men, but also one by him of...
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