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• Expressionism I INTRODUCTION Auguste Rodin Regarded as the foremost sculptor of the 19th and 20th centuries, French artist Auguste Rodin captured both dynamic movement and inner psychological states.

  Improvisation 28 (second version)Improvisation 28 (second version) was painted by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in 1912. Kandinsky used energeticcolor and form to express the spiritual content of his work. He was also a musician and saw a connection between thevisual arts and music, which he attempted to convey in paintings such as this one.© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris./Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York A new phase of German expressionism called Die Neue...

• Ernst, Max - sculpture.

  principale figure en peinture du surréalisme. En 1925, Max Ernst parfait ses techniques du frottage et du grattage expérimentées pour ses « collages intégraux ». Inspiré par la pratique de l’écriture automatique, qui permet aux surréalistes de libérer l’expression d’une pensée inconsciente, Max Ernst frotte à la mine de plomb une feuille de papier posée sur des surfaces choisies au hasard. De ces séances de frottage naissent des dessins « aux facultés méditatives et hallucinatoires » que l’artis...

• I'd never loved Grandma more than I loved her right then.

  So Iput mystory intoit. I pretended hewas Grandma, andIstarted atthe very beginning. I told himabout thetuxedo onthe chair, andhow Ihad broken thevase, andfound thekey, andthelocksmith, andthe envelope, andtheartsupply store.Itold himabout thevoice ofAaron Black,andhow Iwas soincredibly closetokissing Abby Black. Shedidn't sayshe didn't wantto,just that itwasn't agood idea.Itold himabout AbeBlack inConey Island, and Ada Black withthetwo Picasso paintings, andthebirds thatflew byMr. Black's windo...

• Irlande (île).

  En complément, voir les articles langues celtiques et littérature gaélique. 3.2 La progressive domination anglaise 3.2. 1 La bulle Laudabiliter de 1155 En 1155, le roi Henri II d'Angleterre reçoit du pape Adrien IV (un Anglais) la bulle Laudabiliter l'autorisant à prendre possession de l'île irlandaise, contre le versement d'un revenu annuel au trésor papal. Même si historiens considèrent cette bulle comme apocryphe, la situation ne change pas jusqu'à ce que Dermot MacMurrough, le roi d...

• Zachary Taylor.

  army fled back across the Río Grande into Mexico. When Polk got word of the victories, he promoted Taylor to major general. Congress awarded him two gold medals. B1 Battle of Monterrey In September 1846, Taylor began an invasion of northern Mexico. His army of 6000 consisted of regulars and volunteers. On September 21 he attacked the fortifiedcity of Monterrey, which was defended by more than 7000 Mexicans under General Pedro de Ampudia. Taylor divided his army, giving Brigadier General William...

• Zachary Taylor

  army fled back across the Río Grande into Mexico. When Polk got word of the victories, he promoted Taylor to major general. Congress awarded him two gold medals. B1 Battle of Monterrey In September 1846, Taylor began an invasion of northern Mexico. His army of 6000 consisted of regulars and volunteers. On September 21 he attacked the fortifiedcity of Monterrey, which was defended by more than 7000 Mexicans under General Pedro de Ampudia. Taylor divided his army, giving Brigadier General William...

• Declaration of Independence.

  communication networks to publicize British actions and encourage demonstrations of defiance. Soon these committees and some colonial legislatures issued a call for anall-colony congress to discuss other appropriate responses to Britain’s actions. The Continental Congress first met in Philadelphia from September to the end of October1774. This body did not plan for war; instead, it debated the extent to which the colonies should carry their resistance to Great Britain. The First Continental Cong...

• Declaration of Independence - U.

  communication networks to publicize British actions and encourage demonstrations of defiance. Soon these committees and some colonial legislatures issued a call for anall-colony congress to discuss other appropriate responses to Britain’s actions. The Continental Congress first met in Philadelphia from September to the end of October1774. This body did not plan for war; instead, it debated the extent to which the colonies should carry their resistance to Great Britain. The First Continental Cong...

• New York dans les années de 1960 (histoire)

• ROIS ET DES SAINTS DE L’ÉGLISE D’YORK (Des) Alcuin

• Synthese voyage au bout de la nuit

  a.     Surprise Idée principale : Le premier paragraphe de ce passage s'ouvre avec une forte présence de mots qui évoquent le sentiment d'émerveillement que Bardamu et les galériens éprouvaient lorsque l'horizon de New York apparaissait tout à coup hors du brouillard. Ils sont remplis d'étonnement à la vue des bâtiments massifs. Citation du texte : « surprise », « étonnant », « découvrait », « soudain » (L. 1 – 2) Outil d'analyse de citation : lexique à l'utilisation de mots qui évoquen...

• Balanchine (Gueorgui Melitonovitch Balanchivadze - encyclopédie.

  monta en 1946 les Quatre Tempéraments sur une musique de Paul Hindemith. En 1947, Balanchine fut invité à l'Opéra de Paris. Il y remonta Serenade , Apollon musagète et le Baiser de la fée . Mais ce n'est qu'en 1948 qu'il créa le New York City Ballet, troupe avec laquelle il monta en particulier Agon en 1957, œuvre d'abstraction pure sur une musique d'Igor Stravinski. Il engagea comme danseur un jeune chorégraphe à l'avenir prometteur, Jerome Robbins. En 1964, le New York City Ballet...

• Mazeroski's Home Run Wins the Series.

  Capitalizing on a break of their own the Yankees tied the score in the top of the ninth inning. With one run in and one out, smart baserunning by Mantle robbedPittsburgh of a double play and allowed pinch-runner Gil McDougald to score. The bottom of the ninth brought the Forbes faithful to its feet and Mazeroski to the plate. A steady but not spectacular hitter, the 24-year-old West Virginian hadearned more of a reputation for his sparkling fielding. Years later a noted statistician gave Maz...

• Encyclopédie: World Trade Center (New York)

• Excerpt from Richard II - anthology.

  He may surrender. So we shall proceedWithout suspicion. YORK. I will be his conduct.Exit BOLINGBROKE. Lords, you that here are under our arrest,Procure your sureties for your days of answer.Little are we beholding to your love,And little looked for at your helping hands. Enter Richard and York RICHARD. Alack, why am I sent for to a kingBefore I have shook off the regal thoughtsWherewith I reigned? I hardly yet have learnedTo insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee.Give sorrow leave awhile to t...

• Calligraphy I INTRODUCTION Japanese Calligraphy This hanging scroll is an example of Japanese calligraphy.

  Section of the Egyptian Book of the DeadThe Egyptian Book of the Dead was a text containing prayers, spells, and hymns, the knowledge of which was to be usedby the dead to guide and protect the soul on the hazardous journey through the afterlife. This section of one such book,dating from the early 19th Dynasty, shows the final judgment of the deceased (in this case Hu-Nefer, the royal scribe)before Osiris, the god of the dead. Hieroglyphs as well as illustrations portray the ritual of weighing t...

• Prints and Printmaking I INTRODUCTION Prints and Printmaking, pictorial images that can be inked onto paper, and the art of creating and reproducing them.

  Bewick’s The SkylarkBritish engraver Thomas Bewick’s The Skylark is part of his History of British Birds (2 vols., 1797 and 1804). Bewick wasthe first artist to demonstrate the full potential of wood engraving and is renowned for his fine natural history illustrations.Each illustration shows some of the bird’s natural habitat.Folio Society, London/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Historically, the wood engraving was chiefly used for illustrations in magazines and books. It is similar to th...

• Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901).

  homesteaders against pressure from the powerful railroads. He fought vigorously for Civil War veterans, supported high taxes on imports (called tariffs), payments todisabled and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years ( see Immigration: From 1840 to 1900 ). He also introduced 101 special pension and relief bills in six years. Harrison's name was well known by the Republican National Convention in 1884. In spite of this, Congressman and forme...

• Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) - Histoire

  homesteaders against pressure from the powerful railroads. He fought vigorously for Civil War veterans, supported high taxes on imports (called tariffs), payments todisabled and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years ( see Immigration: From 1840 to 1900 ). He also introduced 101 special pension and relief bills in six years. Harrison's name was well known by the Republican National Convention in 1884. In spite of this, Congressman and forme...

• American Revolution.

  C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...

• American Revolution - U.

  C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...

• History of Colonial America - U.

  Despite the lack of settlement, New France prospered as a vast fur-trading enterprise. French explorers traveled deep into the North American continent seeking newsupplies of deerskins and beaver pelts. In 1673 French missionary Jacques Marquette reached the Mississippi River in present-day Wisconsin. In 1681 explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, traveled down the majestic Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. He honored the reign of King Louis XIV (1643-1715) by creating the newcolony...

• Jazz - Musik.

  Pianist und Komponist Jelly Roll Morton. Zu einer der einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten des Jazz sollte später jedoch King Olivers zweiter Trompeter Louis Armstrongwerden. 4.2 Louis Armstrong und sein Einfluss Der erste virtuose Solist des Jazz, der Trompeter und Sänger Louis Armstrong, war ein atemberaubender Improvisator, sowohl in technischer als auch in emotionaler undintellektueller Hinsicht. Er veränderte das Bild des Jazz entscheidend, indem er den Solisten in den Mittelpunkt rückte. Se...

• War of 1812 - History.

  the thorough training they received in handling guns was far ahead of contemporary British standards. As hostilities loomed, Congress authorized a regular army of 35,000 men, but when the United States officially declared war in June 1812, the actual land force was lessthan 10,000 and nearly half of these soldiers were raw recruits. The existing troops were also widely scattered in small garrisons. The government planned tosupplement this regular force with 50,000 volunteers and 100,000 militiam...

• War of 1812 - U.

  the thorough training they received in handling guns was far ahead of contemporary British standards. As hostilities loomed, Congress authorized a regular army of 35,000 men, but when the United States officially declared war in June 1812, the actual land force was lessthan 10,000 and nearly half of these soldiers were raw recruits. The existing troops were also widely scattered in small garrisons. The government planned tosupplement this regular force with 50,000 volunteers and 100,000 militiam...

• Museum.

  History museums are dedicated to promoting a greater appreciation and knowledge of history and its importance to understanding the present and anticipating thefuture. They range from historic sites and small historic house museums to large, encyclopedic institutions such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of AmericanHistory in Washington, D.C. Many cities and states have historical societies that operate museums or historic sites. History museums usually collect a wide range ofobjects, includi...

• Musical I INTRODUCTION George Gershwin American pianist, songwriter, and composer George Gershwin was one of the most important figures in popular song in the 1920s and 1930s.

  C Extravaganzas Another predecessor of musical comedy, the extravaganza, evolved soon after the American Civil War (1861-1865) from traditional English pantomime. Extravaganzaswere typically based on fairy tales and Mother Goose. They introduced some of the elements—songs, dances, and comedy combined with spectacular stage sets andeffects—that American musical comedy later became known for. The first and most famous extravaganza show was The Black Crook (1866), often described as America’s fi...

• American Literature: Drama I INTRODUCTION American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.

  American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...

• NEW YORK et l'art (Histoire des arts)

  pinceaux fins des artisans peintres d'ensei gnes pour obteni r un tracé rapide; Franz Kline uti­ lise les larges brosses des ouvriers en bâtiment; Adolph Gottlieb se sert d'éponges ménagères. Mais la technique la plus neuve est celle du dripping («égouttage•), inve nté par Jackso n Pollock. Max Ernst , déjà , avait expérimenté le procédé en 1942. Pollock , le premier , en fait un usage exclusif à partir de 1947. ll laisse la pein­ tur...

• Portraiture I INTRODUCTION Portraiture, visual representation of individual people, distinguished by references to the subject's character, social position, wealth, or profession.

  CaracallaCaracalla is a Roman portrait bust in marble of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, probably done circa ad 215. Theson of Septimius Severus, Caracalla (as he was known) was a brutal man whose qualities come through in this piece withits dramatic realism. The bust, which is now in the Louvre, Paris, evidently served as the inspiration for Michelangelo’sbust of Brutus more than one thousand years later.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York The first representations of identifiable ind...

• Popular Music I INTRODUCTION Satchmo Sings "Back O' Town Blues" One of the founders of instrumental jazz music, American Louis Armstrong, known as Satchmo, also profoundly influenced vocal jazz and popular song.

  disseminating popular music until the 1920s remained printed sheet music. By the late 19th century, the music-publishing business was centralized in New York City,particularly in an area of lower Manhattan called Tin Pan Alley. “After the Ball” (1892) by Charles K. Harris, the first popular song to sell 1 million copies—in this case, ofsheet music—inspired rapid growth in the music-publishing industry. Composers were hired to rapidly produce popular songs by the dozens, and the techniques ofFost...

• Supreme Court of the United States.

  The Constitution does not specify formal qualifications for membership on the Supreme Court. From the beginning, though, justices have all been lawyers, and mostpursued legal and political careers before serving on the Court. Many justices served as members of Congress, governors, or members of the Cabinet. One president,William Howard Taft, was later appointed chief justice. Some justices came to the Court from private law practice, and others were appointed from positions as lawprofessors. Man...

• Gehrig Bids Farewell.

  “We want Lou! We want Lou!” the crowd chanted. The emcee looked over to Gehrig. Gehrig slowly shook his head from side to side. Workers began removing thesound equipment. Gehrig headed for the dugout but then turned around. McCarthy said something to him, which the New York Times lip-read as, “Come on, Lou, just rap out another.” Gehrig held up his hand to get the crowd's attention, swallowed hard, and forced a smile. Fiddling with his cap and scratching at the turf with his cleats, he spo...

• Les sanctuaires expatriés de Nubie : le temple de Dendour à New York

  l'Égypte incluait la Basse-Nu­ bie (c' est-à-dire une zone de 110 km au sud d'Assouan, la frontière naturelle du pays). Depuis Ptolémée VI Philomé ­ tor, la région était plus spéci­ fiquement sous le contrôle du temple de Philae, plus au nord , et les Nubiens qui la peuplaient étaient largement égyptianisés . C'est en quelque sorte pour donner à cette population des gages de bienveillance que l'empereur Auguste fit ériger ce...

• Richard Neville, comte de Warwick

  Rappelons que le comte conservait à Calais ses anciens pouvoirs. Ceux-ci furent étendus aux cinq ports et à toutela côte anglaise avoisinante. On lui confia les borders écossais, dont traditionnellement sa famille exerçait le gardiennage. Il était revêtu deplusieurs dignités, dont celle de grand chambellan. Un supplément de revenus en résulta, que Commynes a "ouyestimer quatre vingts mil escuz l'an... sans son patrimoine". Celui-ci, pense-t-on, en valait autant. Le luxe royal qu'il déployait, le...

• Scorsese, Martin - réalisateur de cinéma.

  Martin Scorsese peut toutefois évoluer dans un registre différent du « film mafieux », comme en témoigne le Temps de l’innocence (The Age of Innocence, 1993), mélodrame en costumes d’après le roman d’Edith Wharton dans lequel les personnages (notamment interprétés par Daniel Day-Lewis et Michelle Pfeiffer) privilégient les non-dits et les subtilités psychologiques. Kundun (1997) est une biographie du dalaï-lama évoquant les années de formation et d’exil du chef spirituel du Tibet à la fin...

• Scorsese, Martin - acteur / actrice.

  Martin Scorsese peut toutefois évoluer dans un registre différent du « film mafieux », comme en témoigne le Temps de l’innocence (The Age of Innocence, 1993), mélodrame en costumes d’après le roman d’Edith Wharton dans lequel les personnages (notamment interprétés par Daniel Day-Lewis et Michelle Pfeiffer) privilégient les non-dits et les subtilités psychologiques. Kundun (1997) est une biographie du dalaï-lama évoquant les années de formation et d’exil du chef spirituel du Tibet à la fin...

• Fowler T homas , 1736-1801, né à York, médecin anglais.

• Avedon Richard , né en 1923 à New York, photographe américain.

• Perahia Murray, né en 1947 à New York, pianiste américain.

• Axelrod Julius , né en 1912 à New York, physiologiste américain.

• Rivers Larry, né en 1923 à New York, peintre américain.

• Reich Steve, né en 1936 à New York, compositeur américain.

• Mondrian Piet, Amersfoort 1872 - New York 1944 (Biographie)

• Cimino Michael , né en 1941 à New York, cinéaste américain.

• Schnabel Julian, né en 1951 à New York, peintre américain.

• Baumol William, né en 1922 à New York, économiste américain.

• Stone Oliver, né en 1946 à New York, cinéaste américain.

• 22 novembre 1977 : New York à 3 h 38 mn de Paris.

• Transporte - geografía.

  Carrera de barcos de vaporDos barcos de vapor compiten en el Mississippi. Muy utilizados durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX, los barcos transportabanmercancías y pasajeros. Además, proporcionaban entretenimiento, como los barcos en que se representaban obras de teatro.Robert Harding Picture Library Durante la década de 1870 llegó a las costas del Río de la Plata el barco francés Le Frigidaire, que incluía unas cámaras frigoríficas. Esto supuso un gran avance en el modo de producción del...