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...Reeves writes that there is reason to believe Mary Paley Marshall’s input into the writing of her more famous husband Alfred Marshall probably went unrecognised....
...Credit Suisse, founded by the liberal politician and industrialist Alfred Escher, was long regarded as the FDP’s house bank....
...The studios of Alberto Giacometti, Alfred Munnings, Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Barbara Hepworth, Jackson Pollock and Vanessa Bell all have second lives as tourist attractions....
...Like Jarry, Picasso used his Browning as a pataphysical weapon, in a sense playing Père Ubu au naturel, disposing of bourgeois boors, morons and philistines.”...
...In Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Emma Bovary begins the day-long cab ride with her lover that scandalised and satirised bourgeois France at Rouen cathedral, whose intricate gothic facade Monet painted some 30...
...Kerr was born in 1923 into a bourgeois Jewish family in Weimar Berlin. Her father Alfred was a famed theatre critic and essayist, her mother a housewife and talented composer....
...The Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely convicted of high treason in 1894, igniting years of simmering hatred....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Louise Bourgeois....
...The story that we grew up with, that Alfred Barr [New York MoMA’s first director] established, that the museum and market place grew around — it’s an important reference point, but it’s no longer all-encompassing...
...recently fallen out with her husband, a cash-strapped poet and publisher called John Cairncross, and taken up with his younger brother Claude, a philistine property developer who speaks exclusively in bourgeois...
...I have seen Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry’s 1896 proto-absurdist play about a tyrant, used to deconstruct everyone from Idi Amin to Ceausescu, with my favourite production taking on Haiti’s 20th-century dictator...
...Sotheby’s started the season off last week with the first of four auctions of the collection of its late chief executive, Alfred Taubman. That sale yielded $377m, just over the low estimate....
...This week there were new record prices for works by artists including Cy Twombly, Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Gauguin and Gustave Courbet....
...Morris was an English bourgeois whose father had made an unexpected fortune in tin mining. He became a convinced and passionate socialist....
...How to stage Alfred Jarry’s outrageous and prescient 1896 satire on dictatorship, Ubu Roi?...
...wrote Cleveland iron magnate Alfred Pope....
...It was an effort by its founder, Alfred Barr, to elevate design to the level of art, which the museum still aspires to but which has never quite gelled in the public consciousness....
...The original poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) was very similar....
...How, you think, is this to be the backdrop for Alfred Jarry’s wild, scatological portrait of a bombastic dictator?...
...having created the installation that Al Gore unveiled in 2007 at the nearby Nobel Peace Centre (another institution worth visiting, incidentally, not least for the Chris Ofili murals in its restaurant, Alfred...
...Alfred Kazin, whose recently published journals are a remarkable document of American intellectual life, was a much finer reader of individual texts....
...Their masters were Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini and Fritz Lang, whose films were underestimated at the time and whom they defended with the pugnacity of young prizefighters....
...Heaven forbid he should be seen as a “bourgeois decorator” in the voiced anxiety of John Elderfield, who was until 2009 the senior curator of painting at MoMA and who, together with Stephanie d’Alessandro...
...The result, in portraits including those of Ingmar Bergman (1964) or the sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1992), is often more striking despite – or because of – the sitters’ apparent reluctance to be complicit...
...It will open this autumn with an exhibition of Louise Bourgeois....
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