Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738191045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738191045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Minority Rights Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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L'instruction Religieuse Dans L'ecole Conference Faite Au Cirque D'hiver ... /par Paul Bert
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Journals
Author: Canada. Legislature. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Patriotic Taste
Author: Colin B. BaileyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300089868
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art. Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors of eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners. Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School.
France at the dawn of the twenty-first century, trends and transformations
Author: Rosalie VermettePublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479299
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This volume presents an overview of major cultural themes in contemporary France. The section on politics deals with the issue of political cohabitation, the evolution of the Communist Party, the environment, social systems and the European Union. In the social arena, the articles encompass the evolution of the family, benefits for the elderly, the education system, and the social implications of graffiti. The changing nature of French identity is brought to light through an analysis of the press and the debate on multiculturalism. A review of cultural issues includes the notion of leisure, the contemporary social novel, the cosmopolitan tradition in French film, and new cultural spaces.The work concludes with perceptions of France from the United States as seen through diplomatic relations and remakes of french films, and a final essay on France. The various articles include numerous bibliographic references and will be of great interest to Francophiles, academics, and students of French language and culture.
Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, Washington, September 23-28, 1912
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ISBN:
Category : Demography
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Ame Qui Survit
Author: Mary Ross SmithPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665509457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Soul Survivor explores the depths of human emotions, both real and imagined. That any I of us reach adulthood in one piece, emotionally or physically is a miracle of no small proportion. That any of us reach adulthood to contribute back to society and become highly respected in the community is truly a gift of time and place. Soul Survivor is a true story of fortitude, and iron will and looking to the future in the hope that tomorrow will be better than today. Soul Survivor is nothing less than a story of triumph. "Little Mary" Reese spent her childhood living, working and playing in a funeral home. Her mother, Mrs. Mary ("Big Mary") Reese, was well known and respected in the African-American community in Los Angeles through the operation of a prestigious black funeral home. Little Mary's story tells what really happens behind the embalming room doors- the light and dark side of life. Soul Survivor is both humorous and mischievous, and talks of sex, murder, voodoo, preachers and deviate gravediggers. Famous entertainers that passed through Little Mary's life include Redd Foxx, Lou Rawls, Sam Cooke, Billy Preston and Johnny Cochran. Little Mary was born in 1944 in the South, reared in the Southwest and was often disparagingly referred to as "high-yellow." During racial tensions of the '50s and '60s, Little Mary found her hue to be a major issue but not her only problem. Mary's mother caused her to endure life threatening situations due to her drinking and wild ways. Little Mary’s childhood experiences, the mental and physical abuse faced each day, led her to believe that her only true friends were the dead people in the funeral home. Indeed, Little Mary received a BS degree (Be Smart) at an early age. It was the only way she I knew to survive. Little Mary's story is and unlikely but revealing peek into the unexpected and in the end, truly a story of a Soul Survivor.
Paideia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec for the Year ...
Author: Québec (Province). Department of Public InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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