Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poetry reading also included James Tate, a poet who is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, as well as Carolyn Mugar, who read Armenian works...
Richardson's account of the origin and initial responses to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a masterful combination of narrative and art criticism. He traces Picasso's inspiration back to an 1863 essay by Charles Baudelaire in which the French poet declared, somewhat arbitrarily, that carriages in the Bois de Boulogne and brothels were the two acceptable subjects for the "painter of modern life." The five female figures nakedly displaying themselves in Les Demoiselles are fairly obviously in a brothel, but Picasso, characteristically, was not content simply to do something that others had done before...
...look for information by sifting through categories such as jazz greats, 20th century thinkers or world culture. The media gallery treats you to snippets of everything from a Beethoven concerto to the Bangladeshi national anthem, along with videos of a Kennedy speech on the Cuban missile crisis and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda reciting his verse. ($79.95; Microsoft...
PATTI SMITH Rock singer and poet...
...Polish Nobel-prizewinning poet to write 21 love poems for our 21st anniversary...