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Johann Zoffany
Johann Zoffany , 1735-1810, English painter. After 12 years of study in Italy, Zoffany settled in England. He frequently painted conversation pieces, domestic tableaux filled with detailed, animated figures (see portraiture ), that were influenced by Hogarth . His major full-length portraits inclu...
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Duane Hanson
Duane Hanson 1925-96, American sculptor, b. Alexandria, Minn. A member of the superrealist movement of the late 1960s and early 70s, Hanson produced life-sized tableaux of realistic figures and props. In the 1960s these frequently depicted violent, politically charged events, such as in Vietnam Sc...
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George Segal
George Segal 1924-2000, American sculptor, b. New York City, grad. Rutgers (B.A., 1950; M.A., 1963). An influential member of the pop art movement, Segal is known for his tableaux of life-sized cast figures, usually in stark white plaster, of ordinary people placed in everyday situations and envi...
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Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson 1941-, dramatist, director, and designer, b. Waco, Tex. He began his arts career as a painter. A leading figure in postmodern theater since 1963, when he arrived in New York City, he has created lengthy, often controversial multimedia events that combine drama, dance, and stylized ges...
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Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958), a distinguished member of the post-World War I German literary scene, lived and wrote in political exile for the last quarter-century of his life. His masterwork, Success, is one of the great novels of the 20th century.
Lion Feuchtwanger was b...
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motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ).
Origins
Experiments in photographing mov...
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Senegambia
Senegambia , short-lived (1982-89) confederation of Senegal and The Gambia .
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Hivites
Hivites , in the Bible, peaceful tribe probably living in the vicinity of Jerusalem. They were crushed in the Hebrew occupation.
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Methuselah
Methuselah , in the Bible, descendant of Seth; son of Enoch. He is said to have lived 969 years. It is also spelled Mathusala.
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protoplasm
protoplasm Living contents of a plant or animal cell. It includes both the nucleus and the cytoplasm of cells....
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