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THE ARTS: Theatre - That sinking feeling THE GOOD HOPE COTTESLOE THEATRE LONDON
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IT IS early Socialist and from a Dutch original shamefully
neglected in this country. It is wincingly topical again, recalling
the recent derelictions of Railtrack in its portrait of an oppressed
fishing community at the mercy of a corrupt bureau-cracy willing to
risk men's lives in unseaworthy vessels. And it has been adapted by
Lee Hall who flooded the nation's tear ducts with Spoonface Steinberg
and Billy Elliot. I can't remem-ber when I last felt so morally
obliged to admire a piece of th...
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Touring La Tour's Work
The Washington Post
; YOUNG PAINTERS tend to put more art than heart into their early works, using tricks of technique to cover callowness. Georges de La Tour, on the other hand, was born deep but seems to have grown steadily shallower as he aged. La Tour (1593-1652), who lived and worked in relative obscurity in
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A Dark and Stormy Light; La Tour's Troubled Visions Raise Sobering Questions About Faith
The Washington Post
; The painter Georges de La Tour was a summoner of shadows. They creep into his pictures as they crept into his soul, deepening his doubts, darkening his joys. There are nearly 30 of his paintings in "Georges de La Tour and His World," which opened yesterday at the National Gallery of Art. These are
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Exhibit's a La Tour de force: Baroque artist's potent light-and-dark technique swaddles D.C. gallery.(Arts)(Painting)
The Washington Times
; Few artists painted light as intensely and emotionally as did Georges de La Tour, as we see in the first major U.S. retrospective mounted of his work. Georges de La Tour and His World, a concentrated showing of 33 paintings by and attributed to him and of 10 works by his contemporaries, opens at
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La Tour in Paris: Of Light and Tragedy
International Herald Tribune
; Souren Melikian International Herald Tribune 10-11-1997 Some great art shows also tell a great story, but the ''Georges de La Tour'' (1593-1652) retrospective, at the Grand Palais until Jan. 26, beats them all. How the oeuvre of a great French master was forgotten to the point where his signature
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THE ARTS: Theatre - That sinking feeling; THE GOOD HOPE COTTESLOE THEATRE LONDON.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; IT IS early Socialist and from a Dutch original shamefully neglected in this country. It is wincingly topical again, recalling the recent derelictions of Railtrack in its portrait of an oppressed fishing community at the mercy of a corrupt bureau-cracy willing to risk men's lives in unseaworthy
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