Word: figuree
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• Her 1999 collection The World's Wife, notable for having every poem written in the voice of a wife of a great historical figure, was the first to bring her mass appeal.
Mesh office chairs first came into popularity in the '90s with the dotcom boom, desk lunches and Herman Miller's invention of the Aeron chair. The bubble burst not long after, but the adjustable, rolling chair remained a cubicle staple. Now Knoll plans to push the Aeron out of its...
Do you consider electric fans, postcards, watermelons, and dollar bills art? Darren Bader, a New York-based artist known for his imaginative use of space in installations, thinks so, but he wants to know what you think. Yesterday, Bader engaged with students in a conversation about the definition of contemporary...
For example, if BCE hopes to bring back some of the old luster to its valuation, analysts say, it must turn back advances made by cable operators and invest billions of dollars in network upgrades. Nowhere is this more urgent than in the province of Quebec, where Videotron Ltd. has...
Along with Giacometti, Dubuffet and a few others, Bacon would emerge as one of the artists who found a way, after the butchery of World War II, to make the painted human figure plausible again by subjecting it to extreme pressure. The soft tissue of Bacon's men and women...