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	Erastus Dow Palmer Erastus Dow Palmer 1817-1904, American sculptor, b. Pompey, N.Y., self-taught. A carpenter in his youth, he spent his leisure time cutting cameos. He progressed to carving bas-reliefs and then figures in the round, sculpted to conform with the classical ideal. His first full-length figure, The... Read more
	Americanism Americanism BIBLIOGRAPHY Americanism is an ideology that holds that the cultural and political values of the United States are the most ideal and desirable of any in the world. It is closely linked with American exceptionalism, a phrase coined by Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) in 1831.... Read more
	Ideal Type Ideal Type BIBLIOGRAPHY An ideal type is a methodological construct developed by German sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920). Key to his formulation of ideal types is a focus on what motivates social action. Weber believed that we can understand human action by discovering the subjective... Read more
	Claude Nicolas Ledoux Claude Nicolas Ledoux , 1736-1806, French architect. He built palaces and various public buildings, among them the tollhouses ( barrières ) around Paris (1784). His main work was the planning of an ideal city, "Chaux," for the salt mines of the Franche-Comté; it was never built.... Read more
	humanism humanism philosophical and literary movement in which man and his capabilities are the central concern. The term was originally restricted to a point of view prevalent among thinkers in the Renaissance. The distinctive characteristics of Renaissance humanism were its emphasis on classical studies,... Read more
	idealism idealism the attitude that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind, in comparison with the world as perceived through the senses. In art idealism is the tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would have them rather than as they are. In ethics it implies a... Read more
	Francis Poulenc Francis Poulenc , 1899-1963, French composer and pianist. He was one of Les Six , a group of French composers who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Erik Satie . The spontaneity and lyricism of Poulenc's style are best adapted to small forms—piano pieces such as Mouvements... Read more
	squire squire is a term which has come down in the world. Originally it applied to a young man attendant on a knight, bearing his shield, and, by the late 14th cent., entitled to his own coat of arms. Chaucer's Squire, a dapper young man, served his father. By Tudor times, the terminology was changing. ... Read more
	Conroy Maddox Maddox, Conroy (1912–2005). British painter, born at Ledbury, Hertfordshire. He has been the most committed, energetic, and enduring British exponent of Surrealism, remaining true to its ideals throughout a very long career. In 1937 he worked with the Paris Surrealists and the following year... Read more
	ideal ideal. A conception of something that is perfect, referring in the visual arts to works that attempt to reproduce the best of nature, but also to improve on it, eliminating the inevitable flaws of particular examples. The notion derives ultimately from Plato, according to whom all perceptible... Read more