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alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (c.1490–c.1557) Spanish soldier. He pursued a military career, serving in Europe before joining Pánfilo de NARVÁEZ in an expedition to Florida in 1527. When it failed, he and three other survivors spent ten years trekking 6000 miles through the... Read more
Rio de la Plata Rio de la Plata
Río de la Plata , estuary, c.170 mi (270 km) long, SE South America, formed by the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. Between Argentina and Uruguay, the estuary is c.120 mi (190 km) wide at its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean and decreases to c.20 mi (30 km) near its head. Focal point of the... Read more
Theo van Doesburg Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg , 1883-1931, Dutch painter, teacher, and writer. Together with Mondrian he founded the magazine De Stijl and successfully proselytized in Europe for the new aesthetic of abstraction, simplicity, clarity, and harmony. He influenced Gropius and taught at the Bauhaus and in Berlin... Read more
John Merven Carrere John Merven Carrere
John Merven Carrère , 1858-1911, American architect, b. Rio de Janeiro. After graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, he worked under McKim, Mead, and White in New York City, and from 1886 until his death practiced in partnership with Thomas Hastings. The best-known works of... Read more
Juan Manuel de Rosas Juan Manuel de Rosas
Juan Manuel de Rosas , 1793-1877, Argentine dictator, governor of Buenos Aires prov. (1829-32, 1835-52). As a boy he served under Jacques de Liniers against the British invaders of the Rio de la Plata (1806-7). Most of his youth was spent in the cattle country, where he built his fortune through... Read more
New York School New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more
pampero pampero
pampero, a violent squall, accompanied by heavy rain, thunder, and lightning. It blows up with great suddenness on the pampas of the Rio de la Plata plain and frequently drifts out to sea where it blows with the force of a hurricane (see tropical storm), the wind usually coming from the south-west.... Read more
National Academy of Design National Academy of Design
National Academy of Design, New York. A professional association of artists founded in New York in 1825 in opposition to the conservative American Academy of the Fine Arts (which ran from 1802 to 1841; see Trumbull). The National Academy was originally called the Society for the Improvement of... Read more
Sectarianism Sectarianism
Sectarianism Sources Sectarian Impulse.The revolutionary era saw the beginnings of a more diverse religious society than America or Europe had ever known. The basis of the religious pluralism of the United States today lay in the new religious movements of the... Read more
Issey Miyake Issey Miyake
MIYAKE, Issey Japanese designer Born:Kazumaru Miyake in Hiroshima, Japan, 22 April 1938. Education:Studied at Tama Art University, Tokyo, 1959-63, and at École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, 1965. Career:Design assistant, Guy Laroche, 1966-68, and... Read more

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