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In a topsy-turvy age that often turned trash into art and art into trash, that gaily pursued topical fascination and ephemeral performances and showed a real genius for self-consuming artifacts -- an age that sometimes valued art too little because it loved raw life too much -- novels were written that are among the handful of art-works, few enough in any age, that are likely to endure.
Premises 2010
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More than 300 objects show how Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) yoked together dance, music, and art and design to develop what many spectators confirmed (as Lytton Strachey did frequently in his letters to other Bloomsbury Group fans of the Russian Ballet) were exuberant, Wagnerian "total art-works."
Beauty of the Ballets Russes Paul Levy 2010
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In a topsy-turvy age that often turned trash into art and art into trash, that gaily pursued topical fascination and ephemeral performances and showed a real genius for self-consuming artifacts -- an age that sometimes valued art too little because it loved raw life too much -- novels were written that are among the handful of art-works, few enough in any age, that are likely to endure.
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In a topsy-turvy age that often turned trash into art and art into trash, that gaily pursued topical fascination and ephemeral performances and showed a real genius for self-consuming artifacts -- an age that sometimes valued art too little because it loved raw life too much -- novels were written that are among the handful of art-works, few enough in any age, that are likely to endure.
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In a topsy-turvy age that often turned trash into art and art into trash, that gaily pursued topical fascination and ephemeral performances and showed a real genius for self-consuming artifacts -- an age that sometimes valued art too little because it loved raw life too much -- novels were written that are among the handful of art-works, few enough in any age, that are likely to endure.
April 2010 2010
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Tania, one of two sisters who run Maison Bertaux, started displaying and dealing art-works there a couple of years ago.
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I write book and music reviews and sometimes cover cultural events but almost always those are art-works that inspired me and I'd want to promote them on more than one platform.
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Bringing together for the first time material from the British Library's collections along with items from the Faber Archive and the Eliot Estate, the exhibition includes original manuscripts, correspondence, art-works and unique audio recordings, some of which have never been on public display before
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Bringing together for the first time material from the British Library's collections along with items from the Faber Archive and the Eliot Estate, the exhibition includes original manuscripts, correspondence, art-works and unique audio recordings, some of which have never been on public display before
August 2009 2009
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For example, when I revealed that Jake Chapman said his art-works performed "a good social service, like the children who killed Jamie Bulger," he simply said this was "stripped from the proper context."
Johann Hari: Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language 2009
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