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Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews [2]
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Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews. Ed. by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly. Houghton Mifflin. $26.00.
For William Matthews, the purpose of a poem is to smooth out the jagged edges that require its existence - to get the poet from the mild self-reproach of first lines like "Last cough/lung cells six hours safe from cigarettes," to the sated giddiness of last lines like "everywhere, all of us/unraveling, it's so good/to be alive." Reading a few Matthews poems is like attending a dinner party thrown by a famously charming epicure. The talk ranges wittily between high and low ...
 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Rare burgundy; Travel.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...offers great works of European art by artists of whom most visitors will never have heard and certainly never have seen - Claus Sluter and Melchior Broederlam among them - as well as acre after acre of truly dreadful provincial French painting. Survivals...
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Italienische Fruhrenaissance und nordeuropaisches Spamittelalter: Kunst der fruhen Neuzit im europaischen Zusammenhang.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Jacopo della Quercia's Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto in Lucca cathedral upon such earlier Franco-Flemish monuments as Claus Sluter's Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy formerly in the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon. Here, however, Jacopo...
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Art of the Western World.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...s David, Rembrandt's self-portraits, and Pollock's Lavender Mist. It's all there, and some works, like Claus Sluter's sculpted Well of Moses (c. 1400), or Tiepolo's murals at Wurzburg (c. 1750), have been chosen with a judiciousness...
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Sculpture: The Great Art of the Middle Ages from the 5th to the 15th Century.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...style expand and change, only to yield, in turn, to the far greater naturalism of the Gothic sculptures of Chartres, Claus Sluter's uncannily realistic statuary in Dijon, and the humanistic classicism implicit in Giovanni Pisano's pulpit in...
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The Northern Renaissance: a new survey of north European art in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is admirably ambitious in scope, but ducks some fundamental issues.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...as 'Court Art and the Ars Nova', deal with late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century works by the likes of Claus Sluter, the Limbourg brothers and Jan van Eyck, whilst later chapters, such as 'Prints and Printmaking' and 'The Reformation...
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Buildings That Are Huggable.(Arts and Entertainment)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Newsweek
; ...shapes was originally inspired by a form he saw on the 15th-century sarcophagus of Philip the Bold in Dijon, carved by Claus Sluter. What makes such swoopy shapes buildable is a computer program, used in the Bilbao project, that precisely plots...
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When Frank met Walt in La-La Land What inspires the extraordinary architecture of Frank Gehry? To find out, Karen Wright went to see his new building in Los Angeles
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...the same time. In earlier interviews, Gehry has mentioned that he admires the work of 14th century Flemish artist Claus Sluter and the Rennaisance painter Giovanni Bellini. With this in mind, the waves of stainless steel could be the folds of...
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