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...have such a vast reputation? Largely because he was seen as a living bridge between the classical tradition of French landscape and contemporary painting, whether by contemporary you meant the Barbizon painters of the mid-19th century, like Theodore Rousseau and Charles Daubigny, or the more recent vision of Monet and the Impressionists. Corot's career began in the 1820s, at a time when classical landscape--the ideal scene with temples, ruins and mellow boscage, populated by figures out of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas...
...come, that the festival will give more stress to American programming-it makes little sense to celebrate Europe here, when Europe is perfectly capable of celebrating itself there. In addition, the festival could integrate itself more closely into the fabric of Charleston history by offering, for instance, concerts of mid-19th century American music in one of its great houses...
...Camera Vision," the first theme, begins in the mid-19th century with the awkwardness of photography's initial undertakings. The original challenge posed to photography was how a mechanical and scientific medium could function as a forum for creativity. Photographers responded by subverting the mechanical nature of the medium and imitating its paternal ancestor of painting...
John Q. Webb Derry, New Hampshire It's too late for Yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central...
...Thaddeus Hutyra Antwerp, Belgium It's too late for yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central and south Asia...