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41unconventionally — See unconventionality. * * * …
42creativity — /kree ay tiv i tee, kree euh /, n. 1. the state or quality of being creative. 2. the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.;… …
43Crane, Stephen — born Nov. 1, 1871, Newark, N.J., U.S. died June 5, 1900, Badenweiler, Baden, Ger. U.S. novelist and short story writer. Crane briefly attended college before moving to New York City. His Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a sympathetic study… …
44Duncan, Isadora — orig. Angela Duncan born May 26, 1877, or May 27, 1878, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died Sept. 14, 1927, Nice, Fr. U.S. interpretive dancer. She rejected the conventions of classical ballet and based her technique on natural rhythms and movement… …
45Rodin, (François-) Auguste (René) — born Nov. 12, 1840, Paris, France died Nov. 17, 1917, Meudon French sculptor. Insolvent and repeatedly rejected by the École des Beaux Arts, he earned his living by doing decorative stonework. Not until his late 30s, after a trip to Italy, did he …
46Cone sisters — ▪ American art collectors American art collectors who assembled an exceptional collection of art. Through their judicious purchase of works of art by artists living in Paris, as well as lesser known artists in the United States, Claribel… …
47Ives, Charles — ▪ American composer born Oct. 20, 1874, Danbury, Conn., U.S. died May 19, 1954, New York City significant American composer who is known for a number of innovations that anticipated most of the later musical developments of the 20th century …
48Levi ben Gershom — ▪ French scholar also called Gersonides, Leo De Bagnols, Leo Hebraeus , or (by acronym) Ralbag born 1288, Bagnols sur Cèze, Fr. died 1344 French Jewish mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and Talmudic scholar. In 1321 Levi… …
49motion picture, history of the — Introduction history of the medium from the 19th century to the present. Early years, 1830–1910 Origins The illusion of motion pictures is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first …
50Ney, Elisabet — ▪ American sculptor in full Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney born January 26, 1833, Münster, Westphalia, Prussia [now in Germany] died June 29, 1907, Austin, Texas, U.S. sculptor remembered for her statues and busts of… …
