10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MARMOREAN»
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marmorean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
marmorean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
1. Quoted in Kathryn Greenthal ct al., American Figurative Sculpture in the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1986}, p. 162. 2. For the "white, marmorean
flock," see Henrv James, William Wetmore Story and His Friends (London, 1903),
vol.
Art Institute of Chicago, 2004
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W.B. Yeats and the Muses
In the first of the two essays that follow the poem, Yeats asserts that he searches
for creativity by 'invit[ing] a marmorean Muse' (Myth 325), thus evoking the idea of
Dante setting his chisel to the hardest stone, and perhaps remembering his ...
3
The Legendiers and the Battle of Darkness
Chapter. 13. -. The. Marmorean. Caves. The three trekked in the direction of
sunset for hours in heavy woodlands. Omri worried about Pacumeni's feet not
having shoes. It was bad enough that she wore a tan robe that kept catching on
every ...
4
Morning Telegraph's Racing Chart Book
Start good. Won Winner, b g, by Bel Demonlo— Caloocan. Owner and trainer, H.
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2377b> 23osb 2S»b 2275b Starters. Demo, 3 Marmorean, 8 Refined, 3 Dr.
Wentker, ...
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Le circe, and other poems
MARMOREAN HEARTED. 69 Birds happily singing, Their merry notes ringing,
While joyfully swinging ; Wafting of butterflies, Resplendent with dyes, So
charming to eyes. 0 such loving emotion, 0 hearts in commotion, While pledging
devotion ...
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Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography
He wrote that she was “the most eminent member of that strange Sisterhood
ofAmerican'lady sculptors' who at one time settled upon the seven hills in a white
marmorean flock.”James did treat Harriet better than some other female artists; ...
Sic transit gloria mundi f Had this ' Lady of Rank' forgotten any of her English, she
might compensate for the loss by having acquired something of Latin in
exchange ; by which she is enabled to exhibit specimens of marmorean, lignean,
and ...
Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, 1824
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The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in ...
The impossibility of a “marmorean flock” flying to settle anywhere indexes the
impossibility, for James and the art historical discourse he represents, of a
woman being a sculptor.34 Proctor has aptly noted that Hawthorne's description
predates ...
Charmaine Nelson, Nima Naghibi, 2007
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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A ...
The psychological identification of Hosmer with Daphne was first advanced in
William H. Gerdts et al., A White, Marmorean Flock, exh. cat. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
:Vassar College Art Gallery, 1972), no. 3. The idea was expanded in Alicia Faxon
...
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Thayer Tolles, 1999
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Out of Context: American Artists Abroad
... Hosmer, who created a renowned statue of Senator Thomas Hart Benton,
Foley and other American women sculptors were referred to later in the century
by the American expatriate novelist Henry James as the "white marmorean flock.
Laura Rachel Felleman Fattal, Carol Salus, 2004
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MARMOREAN»
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marmorean is used in the context of the following news items.
A New Way of Reviewing Perfumes by Thinking About Beauty …
... to encounter prettiness than beauty because the former is more lively, while there is something marmorean about someone being beautiful. «Mimi Froufrou, Jan 13»
Writer, curator, researcher
... group of expatriate British and American women artists in Italy, dubbed by Henry James "the white, marmorean flock." About Lewis he wrote: ... «ArtfixDaily, Dec 10»
THE LADY HOSMER
... think derisively) the circle of women sculptors around Hosmer in Rome "the marmorean flock"; and the protégée of the St. Louis philanthropist Wayman Crow, ... «Artnet, May 09»
Sculptor Hosmer celebrated this summer at Kemper
... novel “The Marble Faun” (1860) — and joined a group of expatriate women artists dubbed “The White Marmorean Flock” by Henry James. «Washington University Record, Apr 08»
