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Asser
Asser , d. 909, Welsh clergyman, monk of St. David's Abbey, Pembrokeshire. He went c.884 to the court of King Alfred, helped Alfred learn Latin, and later was made a bishop. He is remembered for his biography of Alfred to 893, apparently modeled on that of Charlemagne by Einhard. He combined a... Read more |
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Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley 1877-1943, American painter, b. Lewiston, Maine. He was educated in Cleveland, but early in his career (1899) went to New York City, where he studied under William Merritt Chase and at the National Academy of Design. In 1909 his landscapes were shown at the Stieglitz gallery.... Read more |
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Ralph Barton Perry
Ralph Barton Perry 1876-1957, American realist philosopher, b. Poultney, Vt., grad. Princeton (B.A., 1896) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1899). He taught at Harvard from 1902, becoming professor of philosophy in 1913 and professor emeritus in 1946. He revised (1925) Alfred Weber's History of Philosophy. ... Read more |
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Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon (Alfred Damon Runyon), 1884-1946, American short story writer and journalist, b. Manhattan, Kans. He is best known for his humorous stories—written in a picturesque, slangy journalistic idiom (often referred to as Runyonese)—about New York City's Broadway and underworld... Read more |
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Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin , 1915-98, American critic, b. New York City, grad. College of the City of New York (B.S., 1935) and Columbia (M.A., 1938). Kazin was one of the outstanding literary critics of his time. His first book, the influential and pioneering On Native Grounds (1942), is a critical study of... Read more |
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Biography and Autobiography
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Though the terms themselves appeared relatively late, "biography" in 1683 (first in English) and "autobiography" in 1789 (in German), writing "lives" Read more |
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Alfred Henry Maurer
Alfred Henry Maurer , 1868-1932, American painter, b. New York City. He was apprenticed as a lithographer, taught himself painting, and went to Europe in 1897, studying briefly at the Académie Julian, Paris. While in Paris he was the first American painter to take a significant interest in... Read more |
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Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
Sir Alfred Jules Ayer , 1910-89, British philosopher, b. London, grad. Oxford, 1932. From 1933 to 1944 he was lecturer and research fellow at Oxford's Christ Church College and then was fellow (1944-45) and dean (1945-46) of Wadham College. From 1946 to 1959 Ayer was Grote professor of the... Read more |
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Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography. The brainchild of the publisher George Smith. The work began in 1882 with Sir Leslie Stephen as editor and the last volume appeared in 1900. Supplements and updates have followed and Oxford University Press have commissioned a new edition. The original... Read more |
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Albert Bigelow Paine
Albert Bigelow Paine 1861-1937, American author, b. New Bedford, Mass. He is best remembered as the author of the authorized biography of Mark Twain (3 vol., 1912) and as the editor of Twain's letters (1917). Among his other works are several children's books, including The Hollow Tree and The... Read more |
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Stieglitz, Alfred
...Camera Work: A Critical Anthology, 1973. Sarah Greenough and and Juan Hamilton , Alfred Stieglitz, 1983. Richard Whelan , Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography, 1995. Peter Bacon Hales |
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Steichen, Edward Jean
...modernist circle around Alfred Stieglitz; a prominent advertising...1902), he served as Stieglitz's representative and...day while working with Stieglitz to promote photography...Niven , Steichen: A Biography, 1997. Joel Smith... |
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O'Keeffe, Georgia
...public schools in Amarillo, Texas.In 1916 she met Alfred Stieglitz, who exhibited her latest workâprimarily watercolor...1976. Laurie Lisle , Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1986. Peter H. Hassrick... |
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Stieglitz from every angle: two simultaneous exhibitions on Alfred Stieglitz...
...venue for an exhibition devoted to Alfred Stieglitz. The museum's photography collections...Gunzburg's 1981 gift of a number of Stieglitz prints from his earlier years...author of a pocket-sized book of Stieglitz's photography published by Orsay... |
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O'Keeffe, Stieglitz: A Union Forged in Chilly Self-Regard
...Eisler's O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance, a biography of painter Georgia O'Keeffe...her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz (Penguin, $15), readers...the mid-century, and Stieglitz, a leader in establishing... |
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The example of Alfred Stieglitz
...since out of print. Stieglitz's acolyte, assistant...to his photography-Stieglitz as artist rather than...judicious. A solid biography by Richard Whelan came...there are ways in which Alfred Stieglitz seems profoundly, sadly... |
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Stieglitz on Photography - His Selected Essays and Notes. (Book Reviews).
Stieglitz on Photography - His Selected Essays...c] 2000 286 pages, US $34.95 Alfred Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, NJ on January...Annotater of this text, has written a biography of Stieglitz and other studies of art and photography... |
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Super show for Stieglitz lovers.(Metropolitan)(Life)(Party Lines)
"It's Stieglitz, and it's here...Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries...wrote a 1983 "memoir biography" of her famous relative...of the task of putting Stieglitz in perspective on the... |
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NEW & NOTEWORTHY.(Books)(Review)
...cultural icon. But this biography shows that Weiss' phenomenal...astonishing magic.'' ALFRED STIEGLITZ: A Biography By Richard...Capo, $19.95). Stieglitz is best known for his...papers that reflect Stieglitz's career as a ... |
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ROCKWELL BIOGRAPHY LONG ON DETAIL, SHORT ON...
...subject of her first biography was Tamara de Lempicka...abstraction, and Claridge's biography is timed to be part...taken as seriously as Alfred Stieglitz, Benton or Jackson...than it gets in this biography. Claridge acknowledges... |
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READINGS AND SIGNINGS.(What's Happening)
...5737. BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE - This performance is based on the letters, diaries and biographies of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, noon, Broadview Library, 12755 Greenwood Ave. N. 684-7519. RON ALLEN - The Bellevue Community... |
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DR. EMILY FARNHAM, PROVINCETOWN ARTIST, AUTHOR
...the painter Charles Demuth, a member of the Group of Five associated with photographer Alfred Stieglitz's gallery of contemporary art. Her 1971 biography of Demuth, "Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask," was nominated for a National... |
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Classroom use of the art print.(Biography)
...the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz after a friend of O'Keeffe showed...Keeffe that resulted in marriage. Stieglitz was instrumental in her enormous...By reading this picture-book biography (with illustrations made in the... |
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