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Brick Expressionism

Summary: {{Template}} The term '''Brick Expressionism''' ({{lang-de|Backsteinexpressionismus}}) describes a specific variant of [[expressionist architecture]] that uses [[brick]]s, [[tile]]s or...

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Foist

Summary: {{Template}} # To [[introduce]] or [[insert]] [[surreptitiously]] or without [[warrant]]. # To [[force]] another to [[accept]] especially by [[stealth]] or [[deceit]]. # To [[pass off]] as...

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Painting and the Novel

Summary: {{Template}} ''[[Painting and the Novel]]'' by [[Jeffrey Meyers]] {{GFDL}}

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Fidelity (Greuze)

Summary: [[Image:The Souvenir (fidelity) Jean-Baptiste Greuze.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Fidelity (Greuze)|Fidelity]]'' (c. 1787-89) by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]]]]{{Template}} ''[[Fidelity...

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Showpiece

Summary: {{Template}} A '''showpiece''' is: * An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration: :* [[English Wikipedia]]'s 1,000,000th qualified article, [[Jordanhill railway station]], was...

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The Stolen Kiss

Summary: {{Template}} '''''The Stolen Kiss''''' is a [[1920 in film|1920]] [[silent film|silent]] film romance drama starring [[Constance Binney]]. [[Kenneth Webb]] directed. The Realart Company...

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Flamingant

Summary: {{Template}} The [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and [[French language|French]] word '''flamingant''' refers to all activists of the [[Flemish movement]] and was initially used as a [[pejorative]]...

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Salomo Friedlaender

Summary: {{Template}} '''Salomo Friedlaender''' (Namensvarianten: ''Salomon''; ''Friedländer''; Pseudonym: ''Mynona''; * [[4. Mai]] [[1871]] in [[Gollantsch]] bei [[Posen]]; † [[9. September]] [[1946]]...

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Glasarchitektur

Summary: {{Template}} [[Paul Scheerbart]] in 1914 published a book called Glasarchitektur ("Architecture in glass") and dedicated it to [[Bruno Taut]]. == Bibliography == * 1914 ''Glasarchitektur''...

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Glass Pavilion

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Glass Pavilion''', built in 1914 and designed by [[Bruno Taut]], was a [[Cupola (geometry)|prismatic]] [[glass]] [[dome]] structure at the [[Cologne]] [[Werkbund Exhibition...

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Insel Verlag

Summary: {{Template}} Der '''Insel Verlag''' ist ein bedeutender [[Liste von Verlagen im deutschen Sprachraum|deutscher Literaturverlag]], der 1901 aus der zwei Jahre zuvor gegründeten Literatur- und...

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Louis Paul Boon and the grotesque sensibility in literature

Summary: {{Template}} [[Louis Paul Boon]] and the [[grotesque sensibility in literature]] :Boon was very familiar with the [[Grotesque sensibility in literature|grotesque literary tradition]]. He read...

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Paraproza

Summary: {{Template}} From the publisher of Gils: :'Para' staat bij [[Gils]] naar eigen zeggen voor parabool, paranormaal, paranoia. Maar ook '[[grotesk]]' vindt hij een goeie term om zijn werk te...

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Til Brugman

Summary: {{Template}} '''Mathilda (Til) Brugman''' (16 September 1888, [[Amsterdam]] - 24 July 1958, [[Gouda]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] poet and [[Linguistics|linguist]]. From 1926 to 1936 she...

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Grotesk (Hannah Höch)

Summary: {{Template}} :''[[grotesque]], [[grotesk]]'' [[Grotesk (Hannah Höch)|Grotesk]] (1963) by [[Hannah Höch]] {{GFDL}}

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Homer's Ithaca

Summary: {{Template}} The location of '''Homer's Ithaca''', i.e. [[Ithaca]] as featured in [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'', is a matter for debate. The central characters of the epic such as [[Odysseus]],...

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Rodomontade

Summary: {{Template}} '''Rodomontade''' ''\rod-uh-muhn-TADE; roh-duh-muhn-TAHD\'' is a [[mass noun]] meaning boastful talk or behavior. The term is a reference to [[Rodomonte]], a character in Italian...

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Peregrinatio

Summary: {{Template}} '''Peregrinatio''' may refer to: *a leaving of one's homeland; a self-imposed exile and wandering for the love of God. *the [[Peregrinatio Sancti Petri]], a papal institution for...

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January 17, 2013

Summary: {{Template}} :Ensor moet aldus ook tegen twee aantijgingen front maken; ten eerste die van de rationalisten, die met een glimlach al diegenen die het eeuwige Raadsel erkennen voorbijgaan;...

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Terry Pratchett

Summary: {{Template}} '''Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett''', <!-- Terry is a Knight Bachelor, not a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, so he is a Sir, but his postnominals...

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