Word: belgians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British Medical Association's Medical Ethics Committee, said the event and exhibition were "degrading and sensational rather than educational." But can't education and sensationalism coexist? That's certainly the way it used to be. In 1543, the same year Copernicus published his revolutionary work, De Revolutionibus, Belgian anatomist Andreas Vesalius published De Fabrica, a massively popular work illustrated with scores of statuesque figures serenely posing on pedestals or frolicking in nature without their skin. Vesalius was among the first to bring new discoveries about the body to the general public, and just as Copernicus helped launch...
With varying degrees of success, photographers and filmmakers have sniffed for clues about the nature of the creative process by trying to catch painters in the act of making art. For his 1950 documentary, Visit to Picasso, Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts asked the Spanish master to apply his magical brushstrokes to large glass plates as Haesaerts filmed from the other side. Around the same time, Hans Namuth was photographing Jackson Pollock from all angles as the American artist dripped, splashed and poured paint onto canvas. Fifteen years later, Milan photographer Ugo Mulas had something similar in mind when he asked...
...house blend and other beans. GODIVA.COM has a special Holiday Collection; look under the Shop Online tab for preselected assortments packed in decorative tins. Or take the gimmicky route: send a digital photo to TRENDYCHOCOLATE.COM, and the company will print it using edible ink on a 14-oz. Belgian...
Though the term "graphic novel" originated with Will Eisner's "A Contract with God" in 1978, the first actual novel told in pictures appeared over 50 years earlier. A Belgian wood engraver named Frans Masereel created "Passionate Journey," subtitled "A Novel in 165 Woodcuts" in 1926. Through wordless tableaus it tells the story of a man's journeys across classes, cultures, depravations and indulgences. Politicized by the horrors of the First World War, Masereel uses the book, told in the universal language of pure images, partly as an anti-establishment, pro-democratic political parable. Now, nearly 75 years later, Masereel...
...visibly amused. “It’s really spicy,” DeBisschop says. Meyers nods. “Great complexity,” he says. “If you hadn’t told me anything about this I would have thought it was a Belgian brown ale.” Slesar thinks he picks up on a fig taste. “There’s a fig thing going on, there’s some residual sweetness, the hop profile’s really good,” he says. “It?...