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Edgar Degas crossed bridge to modernism // Artist stands apart from Impressionists
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NEW YORK In 1881, Edgar Degas exhibited "The Little
Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer," his wax statue - complete with a real tutu
and hair - of a young ballerina. Most people found the piece too
shockingly real and the girl too relentlessly ugly. "Your opera `rat'
has something of the monkey, the Aztec, the mannequin about her," one
critic complained to Degas. "If she were smaller, one would be
tempted to shut her up in a specimen jar." Another critic claimed
that the sculpture belonged in a museum of zoology - not a museum of
art - and another suggested that it be moved to a place where samples
of ...
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Images of Language: Six Essays on German Attitudes to European Languages from 1500 to 1800.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Language: Six Essays on German Attitudes to European...the History of the Language Sciences, 89) Amsterdam...status of neighbouring languages in the perception of Germans from 1500 to 1800...the appeal of non-German languages in order...developed to elevate German to a ...
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Shift seen in languages studied in US German, Russian losing out
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...are opting for it. German is taking an even bigger...the study of foreign languages in this country is...that a wider range of languages is now being studied...study of foreign-language enrollments, by the...attention to the French and German languages is just the...professor of ...
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eHelp's RoboHelp Extends Its Support for French and German Languages.
Business Wire
; ...extended support for French and German languages. RoboHelp Office's new users' manuals published in French and German languages provide an installation...extended support for French and German," said Ron Linyard, vice president...
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Eprise Participant Server Version 3.0.2 Introduces German Language Support to Strategic Content Management Solution.
Business Wire
; ...which is designed for the German marketplace and adds German language support to the industry...adoption of technology, the German market is prime for Eprise...support for both English and German languages, is available now supporting...
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XCELLENET TO SHIP REMOTEWARE 2.5-GLOBAL IN NATIVE FRENCH AND GERMAN LANGUAGES
PR Newswire
; ...Companies, Now Adds French And German To Its Vocabulary ATLANTA...addition of French and German languages to RemoteWare(R), the...computing. The addition of these languages coincides with the establishment...RemoteWare in two major native languages was an important first for...computing in ...
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Germans debate place for language
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...pronounced the German language so uncool. All that...capital city and the German flag as horizontally...Republic of Germany is German. It's no big surprise some Germans feel a need to prop...implications. For many Germans, enshrining the language is more about ...
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Challenging Monolingualism: Institutional Implications of Postsecondary German Language Instruction
Magazine article from: German Quarterly
; ...going to devote in the future to the teaching of the German language. German departments or German sections within foreign...in my view include the continued teaching of the German language at multiple levels at postsecondary institutions...
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Bonn Is Promoting Study Of German Language Abroad; Program Has Reached Tokyo, U.S. Cities
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; For centuries the German language has terrified even the most...is promoting the study of the language around the world. Already...growing attractiveness of other languages. "English is a language that you can get around with...
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Germans outraged their language is ruled out at EU
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Karsten Heye, a senior German spokesman, argued recently...English, French and the language of the country holding the EU presidency, the language of the most populous country is also a working language." This has stirred fears...three ever-present working languages of the EU, before ...
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Nuance Adds German Language Capabilities to Speech Recognition and Language Understanding Software
PR Newswire
; ...availability of Nuance 6 for German. Nuance 6 for German...speech recognition and language understanding capabilities...brings an additional language to the multilingual...the broadest range of languages available for telephony...enabled solutions for the German market." About ...
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