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Rebel Art Centre
Rebel Art Centre (also called Cubist Centre). Organization founded by Wyndham Lewis in April 1914 at 38 Great Ormond Street, London, after he had quarrelled with Roger Fry and broken with the Omega Workshops. The Centre was intended to be a place in which artists and craftsmen could meet, work,... Read more |
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Gene Roddenberry
Roddenberry, Gene American Writer and Futurist 1921-1991 Gene Roddenberry, creator of the television series Star Trek,saw space as a place for learning new ideas and ways of thinking. Born in El Paso, Texas, on August 19, 1921, Roddenberry was a pre-law student in... Read more |
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Olga Rozanova
Rozanova, Olga (1886–1918). Russian painter, designer, writer, and administrator, born at Malenki in Vladimir province. She was an energetic figure in the avant-garde in the most momentous period of 20th-century Russian art, but her career was cut short when she died suddenly of diphtheria at... Read more |
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Gino Severini
Gino Severini , 1883-1966, Italian painter. In 1906 he settled in Paris. First associated with the cubist painters, he later became a principal figure in the movement known as futurism . Severini was greatly influenced by Seurat and theories of neoimpressionism. The most lyrical and decorative of... Read more |
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Underworld
Underworld Techno rock group For the Record… Underworld Comes Together “A Very London Sound” Trainspotting Soundtrack Success At the Forefront of Electronica Selected discography Sources For the British ensemble Underworld, merging past and present—as well... Read more |
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futurism
futurism Italian school of painting, sculpture, and literature that flourished from 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I. Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, and Giacomo Balla were the leading painters and Umberto Boccioni the... Read more |
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Garden cities
garden cities. Planned estates had been built by Robert Owen and Titus Salt in the earlier 19th cent., and by the Cadbury family at Bournville in the 1880s. Garden cities were conceived by Ebenezer Howard. Impressed by a visit to the ‘garden city’ of Chicago and influenced by ... Read more |
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Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni , 1882-1916, Italian futurist painter and sculptor. He played a primary role in the drafting of the manifesto of futurism in 1910 and was the major figure in the movement until 1914. In his famous, characteristic painting, The City Rises (1910; Mus. of Modern Art, New York... Read more |
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne , 1828-1905, French novelist, originator of modern science fiction. After completing his studies at the Nantes lycée, he went to Paris to study law. He early became interested in the theater and wrote (1848-50) librettos for operettas. For some years his concerns alternated... Read more |
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Caracas
Caracas , city (1990 pop. 1,824,892), Federal Dist., N Venezuela, the capital and largest city of the country, near the Caribbean Sea. Its port is La Guaira . With an elevation of c.3,100 ft (945 m), Caracas has a pleasant climate, which contributed to making it rather than Valencia the economic... Read more |
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The five-minute guide to ... cash.
...Enough with the talk from futurists who predict that all...to help pay for the Revolutionary War. Then the government...the White House on the back. If reproduced, the...nothing more than one long journey to rid ourselves of...machines, they're sent back to the mint, melted... |
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Getting Future Fit.(Brief Article)
...close your eyes and think back to what life was like 50 years...jump to the present. What revolutionary changes have occurred in the...are happening there. This journey through time underscores that...Herman is a Strategic Business Futurist and author with a consulting... |
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Make Your Company 'Future Fit'.(Brief Article)
...close your eyes and think back to what life was like 50 years...jump to the present. What revolutionary changes have occurred in just...to happen right now. That journey through time underscores how...Herman is a strategic business futurist and author with a consulting... |
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Union with a sonic blast
...behind songs like Bring `Em Back Alive, Gasoline and Like A...The blueprint isn't exactly revolutionary, with demolition derby-styled...chiffon. The result is retro-futurist with the band throwing together...she embarks on a sprawling journey of self-revelation. In an... |
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Is your company future fit?
...close your eyes and think back to what life was like 50 years...jump to the present. What revolutionary changes have occurred in the...are happening there. This journey through time underscores that...Herman is a Strategic Business Futurist and author with a consulting... |
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