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Apr 14, 2024 · Sand -- herself famous for dressing 'like a man' -- thus skirts some of the major questions here. How a person is seen, depending whether they are considered male or female, does crop up in a variety of interesting ways here, but Sand freights her work down and distracts with too many other elements to really allow that question to shine through.
- George Sand
- Gabriel
- Novel
- 1839 (Eng. 2010)
Apr 14, 2024 · The handsome, heroic heir to a vast estate, raised as a man to follow a man’s pursuits and to despise women, is devastated to learn at the age of seventeen that he is in fact a she. Gabriel courageously refuses to give up her male privileges, and her tragic struggle to work and fight and love in all the ways she knows how offers a window into ...
4 days ago · The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian costume. Blackface was a performance tradition in the American theater for roughly 100 years beginning around 1830. It was practised in Britain as well, surviving longer than in the U.S.; The Black and White Minstrel Show on television lasted until 1978.
1 day ago · Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings of natural forms ...
- Visual arts: painting, sculpture, photography
- March 6, 1986 (aged 98), Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.
- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe, November 15, 1887, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, U.S.
Apr 28, 2024 · Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, USA. Detail. The story of Frida Kahlo is narrated through her artworks. She left an indelible mark on the art world with her emotionally charged and autobiographical works. Among her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits, and the first one was ...
- Female
- The Art Büro
- Executive Assistant
- May 27, 1993
Apr 25, 2024 · Deborah Sampson (born December 17, 1760, Plympton, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died April 29, 1827, Sharon, Massachusetts, U.S.) was an American Revolutionary soldier and one of the earliest female lecturers in the country. Deborah Sampson and George Washington. Deborah Sampson, disguised as a male soldier, delivering a letter to George Washington ...
Apr 12, 2024 · John Trumbull (born June 6, 1756, Lebanon, Connecticut, U.S.—died November 10, 1843, New York, New York) was an American painter, architect, and author, whose paintings of major episodes in the American Revolution form a unique record of that conflict’s events and participants. Trumbull was the son of the Connecticut governor Jonathan ...
