Word: avignon
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...missing, and thousands were evacuated from the popular Southeastern region of Vaucluse, where most of the death and destruction occurred. "It's an indescribable tragedy," said Mayor Claude Haut of Vaison-la-Romaine, an ancient Roman town of 5,000 people 25 miles north of the city of Avignon, where 23 died...
Probably the last serious biography of the artist by someone who knew him intimately, this first volume brings Picasso from childhood through the Blue and Rose periods, just as the 25-year-old was preparing to radically alter the course of 20th century painting with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. With the help of art historian Marilyn McCully, Richardson explores areas untouched by earlier biographers. He is a born storyteller and writes in a classic style that employs the full palette of ideas and personalities that ushered in the era of Modernism...
Probably the last serious biography of the artist by someone who knew him intimately, this first volume brings Picasso from childhood through the Blue and Rose periods, just as the 25-year-old was preparing to radically alter the course of 20th century painting with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. With the help of art historian Marilyn McCully, Richardson explores areas untouched by earlier biographers. He is a born storyteller and writes in a classic style that employs the full palette of ideas and personalities that ushered in the era of Modernism...
...Neill, and Thierree, who has performed for such talents as Federico Fellini and Peter Brook, share a sense of theater as a primal force and of spectacle as something inward. For them it is not spiritual, exactly, but not entirely show biz either. Their circus began in 1971 in Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines of the 23-ft. mat that serves as its sole ring...
Petrarch's rant against the papal court at Avignon in the 14th century sounds like a hyperbolic inventory of life in certain neighborhoods of the late 20th century: "This is a sewer to which all the filths of the universe come to be reunited. Here people despise God, they adore money, they trample underfoot both human laws and divine law. Everything here breathes falsehood: the air, the earth, the houses, and above all, the bedrooms...