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Behrens
German architect. He became director of Dü sseldorf's arts and crafts school in 1903, and in 1907 he was appointed artistic adviser for the large electrical company AEG. His AEG Works turbine factory in Berlin (1909-12), with its sweeping glass curtain wall, became the most significant building in Germany at that time. He was an influential pioneer of modernism; W. Gropius, Le Corbusier, and L. Mies van der Rohe all worked in his office.


Defoe
British novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist. A well-educated London merchant, he became an acute economic theorist and began to write eloquent, witty, often audacious tracts on public affairs. A satire he published resulted in his being imprisoned in 1703, and his business collapsed. He traveled as a government secret agent while continuing to write prolifically. In 1704-13 he wrote practically single-handedly the periodical Review, a serious and forceful paper that influenced later essay periodicals such as TheSpectator. His Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (3 vols., 1724-26) followed several trips to Scotland. Late in life he turned to fiction. He achieved literary immortality with the novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), which drew partly on memoirs of voyagers and castaways. He is also remembered for the vivid, picaresque Moll Flanders (1722); the nonfictional Journal of the Plague Year (1722), on the Great Plague in London in 1664-65; and Roxana (1724), a prototype of the modern novel.


reamer
Rotary cutting tool of cylindrical or conical shape, used for enlarging and finishing to accurate dimensions holes that have been drilled, bored, or cored. A reamer cannot be used to start a hole. All reamers have lengthwise flutes or grooves; either the sides of the tool or the tip may be used for cutting. Reamers are made from high-carbon steel, high-speed steel, or cemented carbides.


reaper
Any farm machine that cuts grain. Early reapers simply cut the crop and dropped it unbound. Modern machines include harvesters, combines (see combine harvester), and binders, which also perform other harvesting operations. See also C. McCormick.


Redon
French painter, lithographer, and etcher. He studied under J.-L. Gé rome and learned lithography under H. Fantin-Latour. He came to be associated with the Symbolist painters (see Symbolism). His oils and pastels, chiefly still lifes with flowers, won him admiration as a colorist from H. Matisse and other painters. His prints (nearly 200 in all), which explore fantastic, often macabre themes, foreshadowed Surrealism and Dada.


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French botanical painter. Born in Belgium, he became a favored artist at the court of France, patronized by kings from Louis XVI to Louis Philippe. His delicate botanical prints were not only framed as pictures but also used for china. His Les Liliacé es (1802-15) contained 500 plates of lilies. However, roses became his ...

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