29 résultats pour "ready"

• ready-made - arts plastiques.

  ready-made cinématographique, 1964) qui en revendiquent l’héritage. Certains prônent dans l’utilisation du ready-made le concept critique de remise en cause de l’œuvre d’art, tandis que d’autres sont des partisans d’une esthétisation du ready- made, ce qui fait dire à Duchamp lui-même « Ce néo-dada, qu’il s’appelle nouveau réalisme, pop art, assemblage, etc., est une solution de facilité et vit de ce que Dada a fait. Lorsque j’ai découvert les ready-made, j’ai essayé de disqualifier l’esthétique...

• Ready-made.

• ready-made.

• Excerpt from The Taming of the Shrew - anthology.

  CURTIS. Here. GRUMIO. There. He boxes Curtis’s ear CURTIS. This 'tis to feel a tale, not to hear a tale. GRUMIO. And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale; and this cuff was but to knock at your ear and beseech listening. Now I begin. Imprimis, we came down a foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress— CURTIS. Both of one horse? GRUMIO. What's that to thee? CURTIS. Why, a horse. GRUMIO. Tell thou the tale. But hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she...

• DUCHAMP Suzanne : Le Ready-Made malheureux de Marcel

  DUCHAMP Suzanne Le Ready-Made malheureux de Marcel Née à Blainville, 1889 Morte à Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1963 La famille Duchamp a marqué le XXe siècle de toute une génération d'artistes. Gaston, l'aîné, qui choisit le pseudonyme de Jacques Villon, s'est qualifié lui-même "cubiste-impression­ niste". Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculpteur, a exploité avec audace le cubisme dans le domaine plastique. Marcel est l'inventeur d'ex­ pressions nouvelles, r...

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• Duchamp Marcel, 1887-1968, né à Blainville (Seine-Maritime), peintre américain d'origine française.

  purement « rétinienne », ses provocations, dessinèrent un mythe. Ses refus devinrent aussi importants que ce qu'il faisait ou disait. En fait, il ne renonça jamais à créer, comme le prouve l'œuvre qui reprend ses principales obsessions : Étant donnés : 1 er la chute d'eau, 2 e le gaz d'éclairage , à laquelle il travailla de 1946 à 1960. Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, dit Guillaume) Armory Show art avant-garde ci...

• John Adams.

  the British authorities. The royal governor, aware of Adams's ability and growing influence, offered him the post of advocate general in the admiralty court. Adams declined the appointment,recognizing it as a bribe to bring him over to the side of the British government. A3 Adams and the Boston Massacre Adams generally supported the popular resistance to the British government, but he did not condone violence or mob action. Adams was greatly disturbed by theBoston Massacre of 1770, an incident...

• John Adams

  the British authorities. The royal governor, aware of Adams's ability and growing influence, offered him the post of advocate general in the admiralty court. Adams declined the appointment,recognizing it as a bribe to bring him over to the side of the British government. A3 Adams and the Boston Massacre Adams generally supported the popular resistance to the British government, but he did not condone violence or mob action. Adams was greatly disturbed by theBoston Massacre of 1770, an incident...

• John Adams - U.

  the British authorities. The royal governor, aware of Adams's ability and growing influence, offered him the post of advocate general in the admiralty court. Adams declined the appointment,recognizing it as a bribe to bring him over to the side of the British government. A3 Adams and the Boston Massacre Adams generally supported the popular resistance to the British government, but he did not condone violence or mob action. Adams was greatly disturbed by theBoston Massacre of 1770, an incident...

• Moderne Kunst und Architektur.

  Neue Sachlichkeit hervor. Vertreter dieser Richtung waren u. a. Alexander Kanoldt, Georg Schrimpf und Christian Schad. 2.5. 2 Kubismus Der Kubismus versuchte noch radikaler als die avantgardistischen Strömungen zuvor, eine Abstraktion von der äußeren Wirklichkeit zu erreichen. Picassos Gemälde Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907, Museum of Modern Art, New York) ist hierfür das viel zitierte Musterbeispiel (siehe oben). Im Kubismus etwa Picassos und Braques (zwischen 1907 und 1914) wird der zweidi...

• EM Forster, A passage to India

  helpless victim, however, partially to retain her dignity and partially because she remains unsure of the actual legitimacy of her charges. Two significant forces trouble Adela: ___The first is her doubt that Aziz is guilty of the crime with which she has charged him, and she even tells Ronny that she believes she has made a mistake. Mrs. Moore confirms this doubt, definitively stating to Adela that Aziz is innocent. Her statement contains great significance, for Mrs. Moore serves as a paragon o...

• moderne, art - peinture.

  La seconde phase, appelée « cubisme synthétique » (1912-1914), est issue de la technique du collage. Des matériaux divers comme le bois, le papier peint, la toile cirée, les journaux, le sable ou les plumes sont collés sur la toile, jouxtant des parties qui sont peintes. L’objet réel, et non plus représenté, est introduit pour la première fois dans une œuvre d’art. Picasso réalise cela pour la première fois avec la Nature morte à la chaise cannée (1912). Bien que les formes restent fragmentées...

• moderne, art - sculpture.

  La seconde phase, appelée « cubisme synthétique » (1912-1914), est issue de la technique du collage. Des matériaux divers comme le bois, le papier peint, la toile cirée, les journaux, le sable ou les plumes sont collés sur la toile, jouxtant des parties qui sont peintes. L’objet réel, et non plus représenté, est introduit pour la première fois dans une œuvre d’art. Picasso réalise cela pour la première fois avec la Nature morte à la chaise cannée (1912). Bien que les formes restent fragmentées...

• Antelope - biology.

  antelopes still display complex patterns of behavior, although much of it is instinctive rather than learned. In open habitats, antelopes run a high risk of predation (being preyed upon). To survive they use several kinds of defensive strategy, including living in herds. Herd living ensures that many pairs of eyes and ears are on the alert for danger. Herd living also gives individuals a better chance of avoiding attack, because predators canchoose from many potential targets. When danger thre...

• French Canadian Nationalism - Canadian History.

  The revolution ended in independence for the Americans, who named their new country the United States of America. In the aftermath, thousands of people who hadopposed the American Revolution migrated from what was now the United States to British North America. These people, known as the United Empire Loyalists, settledin the Maritimes, where they greatly increased the British majority over the Acadians, and in Québec. Some settled near francophone communities around Montréal andin the Eastern T...

• World War II .

  the Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed. In the part published the next day, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed not to go to war against each other. A secret protocol gaveStalin a free hand in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, eastern Poland, and eastern Romania. See also German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. III MILITARY OPERATIONS In the early morning hours of September 1, 1939, the German armies marched into Poland. On September 3 the British and French surprised Hitler by declaring war onGermany, but they...

• dada. mouvement artistique et littéraire (1916-1922). Une convergence internationale. Le mouvement passe

  avant-garde Berlin - L'histoire de Berlin Breton André collage Duchamp Marcel Ernst Max États-Unis - Arts - Beaux-arts - Vers un art moderne expressionnisme - La guerre et ses suites Fluxus France - Arts - Littérature - Le XXe siècle Grosz Georg Hausmann Raoul Heartfield (Helmut Herzfelde, dit John) Huelsenbeck Richard Péret Benjamin performance - 1.THÉÂTRE photographie - Les tendances esthétiques - La photographie et les avant-gardes photomontage Picabia Francis pop'art - Le...

• Butcher Wins the Iditarod.

  Butcher's winning streak ended in 1989 when she finished in second place, 65 minutes behind Joe Runyan. She was back on top a year later, gliding down FrontStreet two hours ahead of Runyan. A boisterous crowd of Nome locals greeted Butcher with sirens and banners. Her time of 11 days 1 hour 53 minutes sliced 13hours off the course record she had set in 1986. Conditions for the 1990 race were particularly unforgiving. The 70 mushers contended with the deepest snow in 25 years, several unseaso...

• Dada - peinture.

  groupe de la revue Littérature — fondée en 1919 — André Breton, Philippe Soupault et Louis Aragon, qui finissent quelques années plus tard par délaisser Dada pour donner naissance au surréalisme. Entre 1920 et 1921, le dadaïsme parisien s’illustre par de nombreuses manifestations placées sous les signes du militantisme social et de l’anarchie, et se soldent le plus souvent par des échecs publics. Les dadaïstes ont des tenues vestimentaires et un registre de langue qui s’accordent mal à un au...

• From Robinson Crusoe - anthology.

  How strange a Chequer-Work of Providence is the Life of Man! and by what secret differing Springs are the Affections hurry'd about as differing Circumstancespresent! To Day we love what to Morrow we hate; to Day we seek what to Morrow we shun; to Day we desire what to Morrow we fear; nay even tremble at theApprehensions of; this was exemplify'd in me at this Time in the most lively Manner imaginable; for I whose only Affliction was, that I seem'd banished from humanSociety, that I was alone, cir...

• Turtle.

  Turtles use their jaws to cut and handle food. Instead of teeth, a turtle’s upper and lower jaws are covered by horny ridges, similar to a bird’s beak. Meat-eating turtlescommonly have knife-sharp ridges for slicing through their prey. Plant-eating turtles often have ridges with serrated edges that help them cut through tough plants.Turtles use their tongues in swallowing food, but unlike many other reptiles, such as chameleons, they cannot stick out their tongues to capture food. C Limb Structu...

• Turtle - biology.

  Turtles use their jaws to cut and handle food. Instead of teeth, a turtle’s upper and lower jaws are covered by horny ridges, similar to a bird’s beak. Meat-eating turtlescommonly have knife-sharp ridges for slicing through their prey. Plant-eating turtles often have ridges with serrated edges that help them cut through tough plants.Turtles use their tongues in swallowing food, but unlike many other reptiles, such as chameleons, they cannot stick out their tongues to capture food. C Limb Structu...

• Bacteria - biology.

  A2 b Bacterial Killers Some dramatic infectious diseases result from exposure to bacteria that are not part of our normal bacterial community. Cholera, one of the world’s deadliest diseasestoday, is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae . Cholera is spread in water and food contaminated with the bacteria, and by people who have the disease. After entering the body, the cholera bacteria grow in the intestines, often along the surface of the intestinal wall, where they secrete a toxin (poiso...

• Telephone.

  digits is dialed. The development of inexpensive and reliable amplification provided by the introduction of the transistor in the 1960s made practical the design of adialing system based on the transmission of relatively low power tones instead of the higher-power dial pulses. Today most telephones have push buttons instead of a rotary dial. Touch-Tone is an optional service, and telephone companies still maintain the ability to receive pulsedialing. Push-button telephones usually have a switch...

• Dwight D.

  maneuvers in Louisiana in 1941, he played a leading role as a staff officer, adding to his reputation and securing him a promotion to brigadier general. On December 7,1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the next day the United States entered World War II against the Axis Powers (Japan, Germany, and Italy). A weeklater, the army’s new chief of staff, General George C. Marshall, called Eisenhower to Washington, D.C., and put him in charge of the War Plans Division. Opinions differed on...

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• Library (institution).

  rooms, special galleries for exhibitions, auditoriums for lectures or concerts, computer rooms, children’s rooms, photocopy rooms, and classrooms. A3 Lending Materials As part of their mission to provide information resources to the community, public libraries allow users to borrow items from their collections for limited amounts of time.To be eligible to borrow public library materials, a user must register her or his name, address, and other basic information with the local library’s circulat...

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