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Germaine de Stael
Germaine de Staël , 1766-1817, French-Swiss woman of letters, whose full name was Anne Louise Germaine Necker, baronne de Staël-Holstein. Born in Paris, the daughter of Jacques and Suzanne Necker, she early absorbed the intellectual and political atmosphere of her mother's salon. In 1786... Read more |
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Salon des Refuses
Salon des Refusés. Exhibition held in Paris in 1863 to show work that had been refused by the selection committee of the official Salon. In that year there were especially strong protests from artists whose work had been rejected, so the Emperor Napoleon III, ‘wishing to let the... Read more |
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Salon
Salon annual exhibition of art works chosen by jury and presented by the French Academy since 1737; it was originally held in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre. By the mid-19th cent. the Salon had become an expression of conservative, established tastes in art. Until 1863 it was the only major... Read more |
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Regis Corp
Regis Corporation 7201 Metro Boulevard Edina, Minnesota 55439 U.S.A. Telephone: (952) 947-7777 Fax: (952) 947-7600 Web site: http://www.regiscorp.com Public Company Incorporated: 1954 Employees: 50,000 Sales: $1.92 billion (2004) Stock Exchanges: New York Ticker... Read more |
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Cesar Antonovich Cui
César Antonovich Cui , 1835-1918, Russian composer and critic, a military engineer by profession. As a music critic in St. Petersburg and Paris, he championed the group of nationalist Russian composers known as The Five , consisting of Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Borodin, and... Read more |
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The Awkward Age
Awkward Age, The, novel by Henry James, published in 1899.The story is concerned with the “awkward age” in the life of Nanda Brookenham, during the period just following her emergence from childhood segregation to the brilliant atmosphere of her mother's London salon. The girl and her... Read more |
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James Thomas Fields
James Thomas Fields 1817-81, American author and publisher, b. Portsmouth, N.H. He was the junior partner of Ticknor and Fields, noted Boston publishing house in the mid-19th cent. He edited (1861-70) the Atlantic Monthly with notable success. His books, largely reminiscences of literary... Read more |
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Salon dAutomne
Salon d'Automne. Annual exhibition founded in Paris in 1903 as a more progressive alternative to the official Salon and other current exhibiting venues, including the Salon des Indépendants; it was held in the autumn (October or November), so as not to clash with these other shows, which took... Read more |
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Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet , 1819-77, French painter, b. Ornans. He moved to Paris in 1839 and studied there, learning chiefly by copying masterpieces in the Louvre. An avowed realist, Courbet was always at odds with vested authority, aesthetic or political. In 1847 his Wounded Man (Louvre) was rejected by... Read more |
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Hattie Carnegie
CARNEGIE, Hattie American designer Born: Henrietta Kanengeiser in Vienna, 1889. Family: Married third husband, John Zanft, in 1928. Career: Left school at age 11 and moved with parents to New York, 1900; established as Carnegie-Ladies Hatter, 1909; opened custom dressmaking salon, 1918;... Read more |
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