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...Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck (Bodley Head/WW Norton) In August 1945 Indonesia became the first colonised country to declare its independence after the second...
...of Dutch optical instruments did change the way Japanese artists painted; in return, the revelation of Japanese woodblock prints in the mid-19th century transformed the art of Claude Monet and Vincent van...
...Mike van Dulken, head of research at Accendo Markets, said the update “is about as ugly as it gets”. He added: “That said, credit where credit’s due for getting it all out in the open, warts ’n’ all.”...
...The SB’s warts-and-all chronicle could hardly have been better timed....
...Yet he never flinched from capturing humanity warts and all. Traditionally, Renaissance painters of the Nativity story depicted the shepherds as rude mechanicals....
...interesting to compare Perahia to Maria João Pires, another regular Haitink collaborator: where Pires is all shades of light, Perahia found darkness and truculence in this concerto, Beethoven with his warts...
...Before the surgeon was due, Digby summoned his friend Anthony van Dyck to their house in Charterhouse Yard....
...Kevin T Van Wart of Kirkland & Ellis, who represents Mr Davis, said: “Aviva is a sophisticated entity that knew what it was doing....
...He took as his model Charles I’s protégé Van Dyck – a highlight of his own collection was Van Dyck’s “Cupid and Psyche”, and what Lely really wanted to do was paint pastoral elegies and fêtes champêtres,...
...Clough was a friend, and I have loved his creation, warts and all, for 60 years and more....
...It is clear that Lewis is never going to show us the young Beethoven, with his rough, cussed sense of humour, warts and all, but perhaps the composer would be flattered by a cycle of the sonatas that portrays...
...In 1970, if you fancied something by a male singer-songwriter, you’d be tracking down Neil Young’s After The Goldrush, Van Morrison’s Moondance, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, James Taylor’s Sweet...
...These penalties – of up to 55 per cent on the member’s fund and 15 per cent on the administrator – can be levied when an unquoted company held in a Sipp is deemed to hold taxable assets, such as vans and...
...Auret van Heerden, executive director of the FLA, believes Nike has made an impressive attempt to capture these difficulties....
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