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Eliza Calvert Hall

The book, one of the first of its kind, detailed the designs and colors of the coverlets which aided in elevating the coverlets to be an art form.


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Antonio Sacco

Sacco's lasting influence was in requesting playwright Carlo Goldoni to lay a dramatic structure to his improvised routines, with the resulting plays Truffaldino's 32 Mishaps (1738-40), Truffaldino's Son Lost and Found (1746), and the masterpiece A Servant of Two Masters (1745-53) being the best permanent record of what was an impromptu and momentary art form.

Appliqué

Appliquéd cloth is an important art form in Benin, West Africa, particularly in the area around Abomey, where it has been a tradition since the 18th century and the kingdom of Danhomè.

Avoid pi

Since 2007, the art form has seen an annual increase from artists including Smells (artist), Read More, Kidult, and Katsu among others.

Bājíquán

The creation of Zhao Fujiang, who combined his knowledge of Baji, Xingyiquan and Yiquan to create a new art form of his own.

Ballets de cour

During his employment by Louis XIV as director of the Académie Royale de Music he worked with Pierre Beauchamp, Molière, Philippe Quinault and Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, (the first professional female dancer and Premiere danseuse of the Paris Opera Ballet) to develop ballet as an art form equal to that of the accompanying music.

Bigger and Blackerer

The album's title plays on Chris Rock's comedy album, Bigger & Blacker, and the cover plays off of the popular art form of painting on black velvet, such as Velvet Elvis (and is reminiscent of the Ray Charles album "Ray Charles Greatest Hits").

Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box

Musician Zap Mama opens up the idea that human beat boxing is an art form practiced all over the world and has been refined by many different cultures.

With the help of Beat Box pioneers Doug E. Fresh, Wise, Biz Markie, and The Fat Boys, Breath Control traces this art form from its basic beat beginnings in the Eighties to its present day multi-layered, polyrhythmatic figurehead's Rahzel and Skratch of the Hip Hop group The Roots.

Bungo Yoshida

Concerned by falling audience numbers and a lack of young people taking up bunraku, Yoshida combined the ancient art form with his love of rock music, which he combined for a 1980 adaptation of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki Shinjū) with the music written and performed by Japanese rock musician Ryudo Uzaki, and occasionally with a live orchestra.

Cook Islands art

Captain James Cook recorded tatau as the Tahitian term when he arrived there in 1769, although tatau is not the only word for this art form.

Cristina Wistari Formaggia

1970s - She studied Kathakali, a South Indian dance drama, for two years in the southern Indian state of Kerala; she worked with one of the established masters of this art form, Guru Gopinath.

Face Off Unlimited

In 2010 Face Off Unlimited opened Face Off University at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City, New York, offering classes on improvisation and their approach to the art form.

Fanning

Fan dance, a dance art form with now takes both classic and more modern forms.

Faubion Bowers

While on his way to Indonesia in 1940, he visited Tokyo's Kabuki-za where he watched the famous Kanadehon Chūshingura kabuki play, and was very moved by kabuki as an art form.

Henry Flores

Seyhoun Gallery - Paparazzi As An Art Form! by Buzz Foto, Brad Elterman, and Henry Flores, February 15, 2008-February 21, 2008 Beverly Hills, CA

Hersh Chadha

His desire to establish photography as an art form saw him institute an annual award at the prestigious Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko Kiev University.

House Dance International

Waacking (1x1): A fierce upright style that developed on the West Coast during the Soul Train years, Waacking is an electrifying art form of complex arm and hand movements that project sensuality and strength from the legs.

Hyderabadi haleem

Sanjeev Kapoor, an entrepreneur of Indian cuisine, mentions in his book Royal Hyderabadi Cooking that the preparation of haleem in Hyderabad has become an art form, much like the Hyderabadi biryani.

Ivy League nude posture photos

Some photographers, such as Akira Gomi, have since used this style of nude photography as an art form.

Johannes Handschin

Artists that followed his lead and laid the groundwork for this new art form were Augusto Giacometti, Otto Morach, Carl Moos, Burkhard Mangold, Walther Koch and Otto Baumberger.

Kamishibai

Stephen P. Lepisto and Jennifer Diane Reitz of Accursed Toys created a computerized version of the art form.

Karl Farkas

There he worked as a 'Blitzdichter' (nickname: the Tick), and performed together with Fritz Grünbaum in a 'Doppelconférence', a specialised art-form which was created in Budapest.

Kesavananda Bharati

He is a great Carnatic and Hindusthani vocalist and master of all sections of Yakshagana, the renowned art form and also has penned many devotional songs and dramas.

Kurup

Palattu Koman(also known as Koma Kurup)- A pioneer of the Indian martial art form Kalaripayattu.

Lightpainting

Lightpainting is an art form developed by artist Stephen Knapp and introduced in 2002.

Line engraving

The prehistoric Aztec hatchet given to Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico was just as truly engraved as a modern copper-plate which may convey a design by John Flaxman; the Aztec engraving may be less sophisticated than the European, but it is the same art form.

Madura Island

The topeng theater, which involves masked performances of classical stories such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, is the Madurese performance art best known outside the island, due to its role as a representative Madurese art form at exhibitions of regional cultures from all over Indonesia.

Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai

In 2006, Mankompu, with his brother C.K. Sivarama Pillai, brought out a book 'Kathakali Swaroopam', that deals with the evolution, grammar and aesthetics of the art form in the Travancore region.

Nakashi art

Nakashi art is an art form that is practised in Cheriyal of Warangal district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Owen O'Neill

Early comic influences included W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and particularly Richard Pryor: "It was also poignant and heartfelt and I realised then that stand-up could be an art-form".

Palestinian hip hop

American filmmaker Jackie Salloum's 2008 feature length documentary Slingshot Hip Hop traces the history and development of Palestinian Hip Hop in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip from the time DAM pioneered the art form in the late 1990s.

Reggie Rockstone

He pioneered the Hiplife art form and has played an important role in the development of this uniquely African genre in Ghana's capital Accra.

Sugama Sangeetha

By the 1950's it started taking a good shape and a highly talented musician - P. Kalinga Rao was instrumental in spreading this art form.

Tatsumi Hijikata

Many of his early works were inspired by figures of European literature such as the Marquis de Sade and the Comte de Lautréamont, as well as by the French Surrealist movement, which had exerted an immense influence on Japanese art and literature, and had led to the creation of an autonomous and influential Japanese variant of Surrealism, whose most prominent figure was the poet Shuzo Takiguchi, who perceived Ankoku Butoh as a distinctively 'Surrealist' dance-art form.

Vocal jazz

It was Louis Armstrong who established singing as a distinct art form in jazz, realising that a singer could improvise in the same manner as an instrumentalist, and along with American vocalist Adelaide Hall they established scat singing as a central pillar of the jazz vocal art.