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Feininger
French-U.S. photographer and writer. Son of L. Feininger, he graduated from the Bauhaus in 1925. After studying architecture, he moved to Sweden in 1933 and established a firm specializing in architectural and industrial photography. In 1939 he settled in New York, and from 1943 to 1962 he worked for Life magazine. Among his many books are The Complete Photographer (1966) and the collection The World Through My Eyes (1964).
U.S.-German painter. Born in New York City, he went to Germany in 1887 to study music, but ended up studying painting instead. Around 1910, under the influence of Cubism, he developed a unique style, using prismatic interpenetrating planes of color to depict architectural and marine subjects. He exhibited with Der Blaue Reiter in Berlin in 1913 and was later an influential teacher at the Bauhaus (1919-33). His work was a synthesis of art, science, and technology; he is noted for introducing compositional discipline and lyrical color to German Expressionism. After the Nazis came to power, he returned to the U.S. He was the father of A. Feininger.
meaning
In philosophy, the sense of an expression (e.g., a word or sentence) by contrast with its reference (i.e., the relation between expressions and what they designate). For example, "the tallest person" means "the person whose height is greater than that of any other," but its reference may be John Doe--or no one, since two or more can be tallest. Thus, it will not do to say that words mean the thing they designate (or make us think of). Further problems beset this referential theory of meaning. Two expressions may have the same referent but not the same meaning (e.g., "the morning star" and "the evening star" denote the same planet, yet do not have exactly the same meaning). Meaningful phrases can also pretend to refer without really doing so (e.g., "the present king of France" is meaningful even though there is no such person). By contrast, semantic theories claim that the notion of meaning is best explained in terms of truth rather than reference, that a word's meaning should be explained in terms of its contribution to the truth conditions of the sentences in which it occurs. Difficulties with semantic theories led to the use theory of meaning, inspired by the work of L. Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin. It admits that not all words refer to something, and not all utterances are true or false; that what is common to all words and sentences is that people use them in speech (see speech act theory); and that their meaning may consequently be nothing more than their use, or, alternatively, the rules that govern their employment. See also semantics.
weaving
Production of fabric by interlacing two sets of yarns so that they cross each other, normally at right angles, usually accomplished with a hand- or power-operated loom. In weaving, lengthwise yarns are called warp and crosswise yarns are called weft, or filling. ...
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