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Gilliam, Sam
Gilliam, Sam (1933– ). American painter. He was born in Tupelo, Missouri, studied at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, 1952–6 and 1958–61, and in 1962 settled in Washington, DC, where he turned to abstraction and worked in the vein of the Washington Color Painters. In 1968 he began producing stretcherless pictures, which were sometimes suspended from the ceiling to create pleated forms, and he has subsequently experimented with other techniques to create works that are part painting and part sculpture. Some of his works are huge, creating a kind of environmental experience (Autumn Surf, MOMA, San Francisco, 1973). Gilliam has become the best-known black American abstract painter; Edward Lucie-Smith writes that he ‘has caused considerable irritation amongst African-American militants and has sometimes been accused of “Uncle Tom-ism” because of his insistence on being judged purely as an artist, not as a generic representative of minority culture’ (Art Today, 1995).
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IAN CHILVERS. "Gilliam, Sam." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Gilliam, Sam." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-GilliamSam.html IAN CHILVERS. "Gilliam, Sam." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-GilliamSam.html |
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Blessing, Lee
Blessing, Lee (b. 1949), playwright. He was born in Minneapolis, the son of a salesman, and was educated at Reed College and the University of Iowa. Blessing's work was first produced at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1982 and many of his subsequent scripts would premiere and find success regionally. His most notable plays include A Walk in the Woods (1988), dealing with the friendship that develops between an American and a Russian diplomat; Eleemosynary (1988), about three generations of independent women; and Cobb (2000), which explored the many facets of baseball legend Ty Cobb.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Blessing, Lee." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Blessing, Lee." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-BlessingLee.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Blessing, Lee." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-BlessingLee.html |
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University of Louisville
University of Louisville at Louisville, Ky.; coeducational; founded 1798 as a seminary, became a college and merged in 1837 with the Medical Institute of the City of Louisville (chartered 1833). In 1846 it was reorganized and chartered as the Univ. of Louisville. There are graduate schools of business, engineering, law, and medicine. |
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"University of Louisville." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "University of Louisville." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-LouisvilU.html "University of Louisville." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-LouisvilU.html |
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