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American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters honorary academy of notable American artists, writers, and composers. The National Institute of Arts and Letters, founded in 1898, served as the parent body for the American Academy of Arts and Letters, founded in 1904, until the two were... Read more |
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Gillian Ayres
Ayres, Gillian (1930– ). British abstract painter, born in London, where she studied at Camberwell School of Art, 1946–50. She was one of the first British painters to be influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field Painting, and was among the artists who first... Read more |
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Paul J Sachs
Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the... Read more |
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Mark Tobey
Mark Tobey 1890-1976, American painter, b. Centerville, Wis. An avid traveler, Tobey visited China and Japan in 1934. He then developed his celebrated "white writing," in which he attempted to symbolize the human spirit by applying principles of Eastern calligraphy to the rhythms of Western... Read more |
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William Tucker
Tucker, William (1935– ). British-born abstract sculptor, writer on art, and teacher who settled in the USA in 1976 and later became an American citizen. After reading history at Oxford University, 1955–8, he studied in London at the Central School of Art and Design and St Martin's... Read more |
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Georges Rouault
Georges Rouault , 1871-1958, French expressionist artist. First apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, Rouault studied after 1891 under Gustave Moreau . He exhibited several paintings with the fauves (see fauvism ) in 1905. His sorrowful and bitter delineations of judges, clowns, and prostitutes... Read more |
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Documenta
Documenta. A large international exhibition of contemporary art held every four or five years since 1955 at Kassel, Germany. The first Documenta exhibition, the brainchild of Arnold Bode (1900–77), a teacher at the Kassel Academy, signified Germany's reacceptance of avant-garde art, which had... Read more |
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Sidney Janis
Janis, Sidney (1896–1989). American art dealer and writer on art. Between the departure of Peggy Guggenheim from the USA in 1947 and the rise of Leo Castelli in the 1960s he was the most important figure in promoting the work of avant-garde American artists. He opened a gallery on 57th... Read more |
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with a core group of 700 art objects, many from her own collection. The museum was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914-18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918-28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries... Read more |
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Cecil Collins
Collins, Cecil (1908–1989). British painter of visionary subjects, born in Plymouth. He studied at Plymouth School of Art, 1923–7, and at the Royal College of Art, 1927–31. In 1936 he took part in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, but he quickly repudiated... Read more |
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INK-STAINED WRETCH BIDS FOND FAREWELL.(Sports)(Column)
...all weights. Covered a title bout, too. Right here. Champ-een of the world, Billy Backus. But oh how this ink-stained wretch wished he was around a few years earlier, when Carmen Basilio was king and Norm Rothschild was promoting. There... |
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Political journalism: it's not the good old days: 'but some of what ails...
The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political...new memoir, "The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch." Something else reporters...about it. But, then, Jules is an ... |
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Stream of Consciousness: No Bull: this ink-stained wretch calls for 40 wins
...bounds, drilling what Wolf referred to as "some ink-stained wretch." That ink-stained wretch, as it turns out, was me. (Thank...If Rose refuses to set the bar, then this ink-stained ... |
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INK-STAINED WRETCHES TRULY CHALLENGED BY ELEMENTARY...
...is a melancholy fact of newspaper life that we ink-stained wretches of the press are truly wretched in one regard...be it. In the world of higher mathematics, we ink-stained wretches have a great deal to be humble about. |
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The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat
Witcover, Jules. The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat. Baltimore...experience even earlier in life, leaves the printer truly ink stained for some days after the sheets are pulled off the... |
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FASHION SCOOPS: INK-STAINED WRETCH...DESIGN FOR A LIVING...LOB ONE FOR...
INK-STAINED WRETCH: Hedi Slimane's dream of being a journalist came true on Friday when the issue he guest-edited for France's left-leaning... |
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The making of an ink-stained wretch; half a century pounding the political...
0801882478 The making of an ink-stained wretch; half a century pounding the political beat. Witcover, Jules. Johns Hopkins U. Press 2005 343 pages $30.00 Hardcover PN4874... |
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A hunger for engagement with a changing world: aging ink-stained wretches?...
...bloggers, and podcasters--all devoted to refuting Menckeffs allegation of complacent isolationism. He would see ink-stained wretches consulting their always nicely turned-out broadcasting colleagues for tips on audio and video recording. He... |
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The original ink-stained wretch
PULITZER A Life in Politics, Print, and PowerBy James McGrath Morris Harper. 558 pp. $29.99 No doubt I will not be the only one to remark upon the timing of this excellent book: a thorough, possibly definitive biography of the man who shaped the modern newspaper more than anyone else, being |
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Mencken's Paean to Ink-Stained Wretches [Correction 7/31/09]
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. Henry Louis Mencken was in his late 50s when he began writing a series of autobiographical recollections that eventually became three volumes of memoirs published between 1940 and 1943: |