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Dachau
First Nazi concentration camp in Germany, established in 1933. It became the model and training center for all other SS-organized camps. In World War II the main camp was supplemented by about 150 branches in S Germany and Austria, which were collectively called Dachau. It was the first and most important camp at which laboratories were set up to perform medical experiments on inmates. Such experiments and the harsh living conditions made Dachau one of the most notorious camps, though it was not designed as an extermination camp.
Lachaise
French-born U.S. sculptor. Son of a cabinetmaker, he was trained in the decorative arts and studied sculpture at the \u00c9 cole des Beaux-Arts (1898-1904). He was a designer of Art Nouveau decorative objects for R. Lalique before emigrating to the U.S. in 1906. His most famous work, Standing Woman (1912-27), a female nude with enormous breasts and thighs and sinuous, tapered limbs, typifies the image he worked and reworked throughout his career. He is also known for his portrait busts of J. Marin, M. Moore, E. E. Cummings, and others.
Machaut
French poet and composer. After possibly receiving a university education and taking holy orders, he traveled throughout Europe as secretary to the king of Bohemia. From 1340 he settled in Reims, supported by several royal patrons, incl. the duc de Berry, and King Charles V. Beside 14 narrative poems incorporating short lyrics, he wrote more than 400 separate lyric poems. His musical output numbers dozens each of the genres of formes fixes, as well as the first complete setting of the mass for four voices, and he was the outstanding figure of the Ars Nova. His poetry was a source for G. Chaucer.
machismo
Exaggerated pride in masculinity, perceived as power, often coupled with a minimal sense of responsibility and disregard of consequences. In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and denigration of characteristics associated with the feminine. It has for centuries been a strong current in Latin Amer. politics and society. Caudillos, prominent in the history of Latin America, have typified machismo with their bold and authoritarian approach to government and their willingness to employ violence to achieve their ends.
Pacher
Austrian painter and sculptor. His colossal altarpiece for the Pilgrimage Church of St. Wolfgang in Upper Austria (1479-81) is a masterpiece of late Gothic painting, sculpture, and architecture. The painted panels, with their deep architectural perspective and dramatic foreshortening, indicate knowledge of Mantegna. The sculptural portions, with their intricate detail, bright polychrome, and sweeping draperies, show his attachment to N traditions; and the architectural elements show an extravagant version of the late Gothic style. Pacher was one of the earliest artists to introduce the principles ...
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