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  Wikinfo | Alice Prin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kiki, was the stage name for Alice Ernestine Prin (1901 - 1953), a nightclub singer, actress, model, and painter.
At age 12 she was sent to Paris to be educated and by age 14 she was posing nude for sculptors.
Alice Prin became one of the most famous artists' models ever, the most notable of which is a colection of photographs by Man Ray and the portrait of her painted by Moise Kisling titled Nu assis.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Alice_Prin   (505 words)

  
 Man Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After a few unsuccessful experiments, and notably after the publication of a unique issue of New York Dada in 1920, Man Ray stated, "Dada cannot live in New York", and in 1921 he went to live and work in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France during the era of great creativity.
There he fell in love with famous French singer, Kiki (Alice Prin), often referred to as "Kiki de Montparnasse", who later became his favorite photographic model.
For the next 20 years in Montparnasse, Man Ray revolutionized the art of photography.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Man_Ray   (509 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Memory Lane -- Apr. 15, 1946   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank.
They knew her not as Alice, but more romantically as Kiki.
Though she was flamboyantly real and fabulously full-blown, she was to most of the artists, revolutionaries, Babbitts, drunkards and dreamers more a symbol than...
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,886916,00.html   (155 words)

  
 prin - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 The Literary Woman of Montparnasse
It was here that, in 1907, she reportedly convinced Henri Matisse to open an academy for artists.
The restaurant is renowned for its seafood, as oysters and other fresh fish arrive daily from the Brittany coast.
A native of the Bourgogne region of France, Kiki (given name: Alice Prin) moved to Paris in 1913.
www.theculturedtraveler.com /archives/SEP2004/Print/Montparnasse.htm   (1488 words)

  
  Tibetan Terriers Tribune
I guess this is not really a good question for me, you see, I probably have done just that with most the important people in our breed, other then Dr. Greig.
I have visited Alice Murphy more then once and she did come to New England for a Bay Colony fun match.
I bought my first dog from Fran and Frank Corcoran, I had long conversations with Shirley Dickerson on the phone.
www.tibetanterriertribune.com /febbackcover.htm   (1564 words)

  
 Missouri School District Directory: Kansas City 33
Prin.: Dr. Glenn Mitchell (5 years in district)
Prin.: Dr. Juanita Hempstead (32 years in district)
Prin.: Dr. Gayle Hurst (14 years in district)
dese.mo.gov /directory/048078.html   (226 words)

  
 MODERNA MUSEET - Man Ray - Biography
Photographed works of art for various artists, while taking their portraits.
Met Alice Prin, "Kiki de Montparnasse", who became his model and partner.
Won acclaim, both for his fashion photography and his portraits.
www.modernamuseet.se /feature/2004/MO_ManRay/template3.asp?lang=Eng&id=2469   (570 words)

  
 A few of our favorite muses...
Kiki is an excellent name for a world-renown artist and muse.
Much better than Alice Prin, which is what Kiki was named when she was born in Burgundy, France in 1901.
Poor and illegitimate, Kiki was raised by her grandmother who encouraged her to steal vegetables from the neighbors gardens so the family could eat.
www.lupec.org /events/2003/muse   (662 words)

  
 University of Delaware: ERNEST HEMINGWAY IN HIS TIME: Placed in Paris
Paris: Edward W. Titus, at the Sign of the Black Manikin Press, 1930.
Hemingway wrote the introduction to this autobiography of Alice Prin, an exotic model known as "Kiki." Hemingway's introduction was also published separately as a pamphlet.
Hemingway praised Kiki's skill as a writer and there is considerable evidence that suggests his own memoir, A Moveable Feast, was influenced by that of Kiki.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/hemngway/paris.htm   (482 words)

  
 wiki/2nd October Definition / wiki/2nd October Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1890 Events January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U.S. White House.
Events January-February January 5 - Dungeons and Dragons officially released.
1901 - Alice PrinKiki, was the stage name for Alice Ernestine Prin (1901 - 1953), a nightclub singer, actress, model, and painter.
www.elresearch.com /wiki/2nd_October   (8456 words)

  
 gaipa-works cited
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism
The Education of a French Model: The Loves, Cares, Cartoons and Caricatures of Alice Prin, Originally
Abbreviated as E 1950 in the body of the essay.
www.eiu.edu /~modernity/gaipa-bibliography.html   (200 words)

  
 Gallery Guide ... Portal to the fine arts!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jeck, Doug at Garth Clark Gallery, thru May 4
Kiki (Alice Prin) at Zabriskie Gallery, thru May 24
Kleinberg, Susan at Neuhoff Gallery, thru May 16
www.gallery-guide.com /2002-05/oneperson/nyone.asp   (3430 words)

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