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Ocean Currents
Ocean Currents Mariners have known for many centuries that the ocean contains currents that flow along generally consistent paths. The Spanish galleons transporting gold and silver from Mexico to Spain made use of the Gulf Stream to help them return home, while Benjamin... Read more |
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fey
fey originally (in Old English, in form fǣge) fated to die soon; the word is of Germanic origin, and related to German feige ‘cowardly’.The original meaning is still current in Scottish usage, but from the early 19th century the word has developed a more general sense of... Read more |
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agony
agony extreme mental or physical suffering.agony column originally (in the mid 19th century) the column of a newspaper containing special advertisements, particularly those for missing relatives or friends, and thus containing evidence of great distress. Later (the current meaning), it became a... Read more |
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baronet
baronet a member of the lowest hereditary titled British order, with the status of a commoner but able to use the prefix ‘Sir’. The term originally denoted a gentleman, not a nobleman, summoned by the king to attend parliament; the current order was instituted in the early 17th... Read more |
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little
little Battle of Little Bighorn a battle in which General George Custer and his forces were defeated by Sioux warriors on 25 June 1876, popularly known as Custer's Last Stand. It took place in the valley of the Little Bighorn River in Montana.Little Englander a person who opposes an... Read more |
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abstract art
abstract art. Art that does not depict recognizable scenes or objects, but instead is made up of forms and colours that exist for their own expressive sake. Much decorative art can thus be described as abstract, but in normal usage the term refers to modern painting and sculpture that abandon the... Read more |
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dead reckoning
dead reckoning, determining position at sea by advancing the last established position for course and distance run. Before the advent of modern navigational systems dead reckoning was the basis of most offshore navigation. The term ‘estimated position’ is sometimes used for the dead... Read more |
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Peru Current
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California Current
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sculpture
sculpture Art of creating forms...The history of sculpture parallels that of...where, in the 18th century, it was superseded...extended into the 19th century, when it was rivalled...stimulated great modern sculptors such as... |
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Adam's rib
...views which prevailed until the eighteenth century in the West. By contrast, modern scientific views, based on the sequence...visual image in medieval church and cathedral sculpture. In modern culture ‘Adam's rib’ is a phrase sometimes... |
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effigies
...whether carved tomb sculptures or painted representations...the sixth and fifth centuries bce; their mortuary...reappeared in the eleventh century, in Germany, in...to the mid twelfth century preserve the appearance...Throughout Europe, effigial ... |
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Japanese art and architecture
...1000 bc). In the 6th century ad, Chinese influence was strong. Lacquer work, sculpture and ink-painting developed...date from this period. Modern Japanese artists have...contributions to 20th-century art and design. Japanese...architecture derives from ... |
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Paintings In the Supreme Court Building
...Until the late nineteenth century Congress did not authorize the...antique column, but a modern bookcase filled with...suggests the complexity of modern jurisprudence, while reaffirming the eighteenth‐century view of law as a prestigious...Buildings, Supreme ... |
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Folk Art and Crafts
...in the early twentieth century to describe traditional...stood in contrast to modern industrial systems of mass...preindustrial painting and sculpture, often executed by anonymous...America of the twentieth century. In the freedom of expression...exhibitions ... |
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Tate Gallery
...national collection of modern art. The gallery...British painting and sculpture, which now ranges from the mid-16th century to the present day...Station houses the modern, international art...collection. Called Tate Modern, it opened to ... |
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Abstract Expressionism
...nonobjective metal‐welded sculpture of Herbert Ferber (1906...in the paintings and sculptures of Clyfford Still...uniquely American form of modern art, and New York...exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and 1940s...interest in ... |
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church in medieval Ireland
...Candida Casa at Whitern (modern Scotland) or particularly...calligraphy, metalwork, and sculpture which characterized...composed from the 6th century onwards and which greatly...church.By the 8th century the Irish church was...emerged in the late 8th ... |
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African art
...ceremonial masks and small sculptures used in ancestor worship...examples of African sculpture yet discovered (c...early (12th–15th century) mastery of the cire...exaggerated figurative sculpture. The Dogon of Mali...renowned for their wooden ... |
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Tate Gallery
...1819–99) to house his collection of modern British paintings, as a nucleus for a permanent national collection of modern art. In the 20th century modern foreign paintings and sculpture (both British and foreign) were added... |
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Renaissance
...handwriting, printing, painting, engraving, sculpture, architecture, and music of that period...in his own time, and Voltaire two centuries later a ‘renaissance des lettres et des beaux...literature made him see it as inaugurating the modern era.The English Renaissance was ... |
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A century of modern sculpture
...19th- and 20th-century sculpture drawn from one of...approximately 105 sculptures and examines developments...purchase of major sculptures by Jean Arp, Alexander...exhibition, "A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection... |
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Precocious master: twentieth-century sculpture.(sculptor Henri...
...course of early 20th-century sculpture, one is well-known...radically simplified sculpture's forms. A new biography...African art and works of modern art movements. In one...known founders of modern sculpture. But his... |
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Made in Britain: a curatorial tour de force or an experiment in...
...right back to the New Sculpture of the late 19th century...identifiable British sculpture, so we went in search...walk around the last century as they might walk...work from preceding centuries. 'Modern British ... |
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Jeremy Strick Named Director of Nasher Sculpture Center.
...Directors of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas...and appreciation for modern and contemporary sculpture...lectured extensively about modern and contemporary art...as a contributor to A Century of Modern ... |
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SHOWCASING POP ART, SCULPTURE OF BUDDHA
...Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art "Alone in a Crowd...art spanning several centuries, modern sculpture, folk art...the Buddha in Asian sculpture, from early periods to the 19th century. Through Dec. 18...Realism: The ... |
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Metal composition hold key to identity of modern sculptures.
...composition of modern sculptures with...half of the 20th century, profiles which...even authenticate sculptures. Their findings1...hardness of the sculpture, its resistance...cast a particular sculpture. In addition, not all ... |
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The Rink With a View; At Mall's Outdoor Gallery, Sculptures Enhance Exercise
...the midst of a 19th-century garden, surrounded by modern sculpture, a federal...skating rink within a sculpture garden. The garden...Washington, frequent sculpture garden visitors, came...normally not come for the sculpture ... |
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'Like a poet's dreams': the redisplay of the 6th Duke of Devonshire's...
...gallery was intended for modern sculpture, and I have...collection of early-19th-century European sculpture...outstanding collection of modern British--rather than European--sculpture was being arranged...notable source for ... |
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Tate Modern unveils its biggest work yet, Anish Kapoor sculpture
...London's Tate Modern art gallery, leaves...most significant sculptures of this century," said the Tate Modern's curator Donna...to see the entire sculpture from any one position...feel of the Tate Modern, a former power... |
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Royal Academy to celebrate a century of British sculpture
...retrospective of 20th century British sculpture to be held in this country...form during the last century who made the world hungry...people think about what is modern, what is British and...centre of a global power. Modern British ... |
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