Starting in the early 1960s, he set himself apart from his contemporaries with paintings that critiqued the cultural dominance of the United States.
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Her widely exhibited work in sculpture, performance, film and more didn’t represent anything in particular so much as it evoked an experience.
He helped liberate Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi concentration camp where Anne Frank had died.
Born into New York wealth and married to a Scottish earl, she was the only American-born lady-in-waiting to the queen, serving for nearly 50 years.
With her smoky voice and her high-fashion look, the self-proclaimed “punk of fado” found stardom by shaking up a venerable Portuguese genre.
Believed to be the last surviving Frenchman to wade ashore with Americans, he was attached to an Army unit that stormed Utah Beach and helped
Likened to a “court composer” for Germany, he wrote more than 500 pieces and was considered one of the most original and independent musical voices
Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married.
An M.I.T. physicist, he engineered an East-West deal that reduced nuclear threats and produced one of the greatest peace dividends of all time.
Eric Hazan, an influential publisher who brought to France’s attention some of the country’s most incendiary left-wing writers and who was himself a distinctive historian