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Ad Reinhardt
Ad Reinhardt (Adolph Reinhardt), 1913-67, American painter, b. New York City. Both a painter and an art theorist, Reinhardt is best known for his black paintings, begun in 1960. Associated with minimalism (see modern art ), the paintings appear all black and exhibit only slight variations in hue... Read more |
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beat generation
beat generation term applied to certain American artists and writers who were popular during the 1950s. Essentially anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional social and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression in multiple, intense experiences and beatific... Read more |
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Voluntarism
Voluntarism. This concept is identified with the early American Federation of Labor (AFL), when Samuel Gompers dominated the organization. First used by Gompers to summarize his view of the AFL's goals, voluntarism stressed the importance of freely chosen and noncompulsory relationships within the... Read more |
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts
American Academy of Dramatic Arts (New York). The oldest ongoing American school of acting, it was founded in 1884 as the Lyceum Theatre School for Acting by Franklin Haven Sargent after Harvard, where he was a member of the faculty, rejected his plea to open a drama school there. Steele ... Read more |
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Franklin Institute
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, the most prominent of American mechanics institutes, was established in Philadelphia in 1824 primarily through the efforts of Samuel Merrick, who later served as first president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and William H. Keating, professor of chemistry and... Read more |
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bork
bork obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them. The word comes from the name of Robert Bork (1927– ), an American judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court (1987) was rejected following unfavourable publicity for his... Read more |
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Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck , 1876-1958, French painter, writer, and printmaker. At first an avid racing cyclist, he supported himself (c.1900) as a musician and taught himself to paint. Vlaminck early adopted the strident palette and twisted lines of Van Gogh. He rejected the intellectual approach of ... Read more |
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Hutterian Brethren
Hutterites ETHNONYM: Hutterite Brethren Orientation Identification. The Hutterites in Canada and the United States are a Germanic people with origins in the Swiss Anabaptist movement that developed between 1525 and 1536 during the Reformation. Along with the Old Order Amish and... Read more |
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National Education Association
National Education Association (NEA), organization of professional educators in the United States, with almost 2.5 million members. The NEA was founded (1850) as the National Teachers Association, changed its name in 1857, and was chartered by Congress in 1906. Its 13 standing committees and 7... Read more |
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