(Encyclopedia) Ashbery, John, 1927–2017, American poet, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1949), Columbia (M.A., 1951). Among the most acclaimed and influential American poets of his era, he…
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(Encyclopedia) cubism, art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907.
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