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Yin and Yang
YIN AND YANG. In Chinese cosmology, yin and yang are two opposite but complementary principles that regulate the functioning of the cosmos. Their repeated alternation provides the energy necessary for the cosmos to sustain itself, and their continuous joining and separation is at the origin of the... Read more |
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Macrobiotic diet
MACROBIOTIC FOOD MACROBIOTIC FOOD. Macrobiotics is a way of eating and living in accordance with the natural order of the universe. This simple way of life has been practiced for thousands of years, originating with the ancient Far Eastern theory of yin and yang energies, a never-ending continuum... Read more |
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Tao
Tao Term used in ancient Chinese religious philosophy, signifying "the Way" or pathway of life. The Tao is understood as a unity underlying the opposites and diversity of the phenomenal world. Ching Shen Li (cosmic energy) is manifest in the duality of yin and yang (negative and positive), female... Read more |
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Bloomsbury group
Bloomsbury group name given to the literary group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center of its activities from 1904 to World War II. It included Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster , Vita Sackville-West , Roger Fry , Clive Bell , and John Maynard ... Read more |
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Clive Bell
Clive Bell 1881-1964, English critic of art and literature. He was a member of the Bloomsbury group . His works include Art (1914), Since Cézanne (1922), Landmarks in Nineteenth-Century Painting (1927), and Proust (1929). His wife, Vanessa (Stephen) Bell, 1879-1961, was a painter... Read more |
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Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Bell A member of the celebrated Bloomsbury Group of artists and writers and the sister of author Virginia Woolf, British painter and decorative artist Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was accomplished in her own right. In the 1910s Bell emerged as one of England's first abstract painters,... Read more |
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I Ching
I Ching (Yi King or Y-Kim) The ancient Chinese Book of Changes, attributed to the emperor Fo-Hi in 3468 B.C.E. It expounds a classical Chinese philosophy based on the dual cosmic principles of yin and yang and claims to elucidate the outcome of any given situation by a technique involving... Read more |
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Cercle et Carre
Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square). A discussion and exhibition society for abstract artists formed in Paris in 1929 by the critic Michel Seuphor and the painter Joaquín Torres-García. They published a journal of the same name (3 numbers, 1929–30): ‘The choice of the... Read more |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls, novel by Hemingway, published in 1940. The title is derived from a sermon by Donne: “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent … And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”Robert... Read more |
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Graham Bell
Bell, Graham (1910–1943). British painter and art critic, born in South Africa. After studying at Durban Art School he moved to London in 1931 and became a pupil of Duncan Grant. In the early 1930s he painted abstracts (he exhibited with the Objective Abstractionists in 1934), but from 1934... Read more |
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