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  Jeu de paume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeu de paume was originally a French precursor of lawn tennis played without racquets.
The indoor version is sometimes called jeu de courte paume or just courte paume (short palm) to distinguish it from the outdoor version, longue paume, played on a longer court.
Some important buildings in France are known by the name jeu de paume, in general because of their proximity to tennis courts or to sites on which courts once stood.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeu_de_paume   (294 words)

  
 Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The building was built in 1861 during the reign of (Nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873)) Napoleon III.
It originally housed (A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court) tennis courts; the name is from the precursor of tennis, the (additional info and facts about jeu de paume) jeu de paume.
Before 1986, it contained the Musée du Jeu de Paume, which held many important (A painter who follows the theories of impressionism) impressionist works now in the (additional info and facts about Musée d'Orsay) Musée d'Orsay.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ga/galerie_nationale_du_jeu_de_paume.htm   (157 words)

  
 Jeu de Paume - France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Visiting dignitaries and their most faithful courtiers were invited on an individual basis to engage in a game of "paume’ after they had attended the official events of the programme such as horse races, feats of arms, banquets, concerts and the performance of plays.
Le Jeu Royal de la Paume came to a virtual end during the French Revolution of 1789, when anything that was associated with the king had to be abolished.
The Jeu de Paume of Versailles still stands but now serves as a museum, not to be confused with the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, the famous museum for modern art in Paris.
www.real-tennis.nl /Jeudepaume.html   (1078 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jeu de Paume   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jeu de paume was originally a French precursor of tennis played without racquets.
Longue paume was an outdoor version of jeu de paume.
The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jeu-de-Paume   (652 words)

  
 Leonardo Digital Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1999.
Takahiko (Taka) Iimura is a filmmaker and video-artist who since the beginning of the sixties has moved towards the experimental peripheries of the mediums of moving images - peripheries in which the popular sphere of filmmaking gradually transforms into the conceptual and minimal.
The present catalogue, "film et vidéo", was made in conjunction with his retrospective at the Galerie national de Jeu de Paume in Paris, 11-30 of Mai 1999.
mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/feb2001/bk_IIMURA_andersson.html   (516 words)

  
 Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
At the northeast corner of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, to the left of the Place de la Concorde entrance, is the Jeu de Paume, originally a court for a game similar to tennis known as the jeu de paume (from paume, "palm", with which the ball was struck).
The Jeu de Paume was built in 1851, under the Second Empire, but was considerably altered in 1931.
Until 1986 the Jeu de Paume housed the Louvre's world-famous collection of Impressionists, now displayed in the Musée d'Orsay.
www.planetware.com /france/ile-de-france/paris/galerie-nationale-du-jeu-de-paume-f-p-jdp.htm   (179 words)

  
 artfacts.net: News: Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume : a new institution for Photography and Image
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume : a new institution for Photography and Image
From the 23th June 2004 on, the Jeu de Paume will become the new french institution for photography and images.
It will organise, or help at the organisation, in the Galerie as well as in other places, of exhibitions, debats, research activities, pedagogic activities, publications...
www.artfacts.net /index.php/pageType/newsInfo/newsID/1900/lang/1   (94 words)

  
 Bulletin officiel N°30 du 25 juillet 2002 - Ministère de la jeunesse, de l'éducation nationale et de la recherche
On étudiera, notamment, l'exemple des représentations du gangstérisme dans le cinéma des années trente et quarante pour engager une réflexion sur le statut du criminel et des policiers qui le combattent dans l'imaginaire hollywoodien, et sur le rôle du cinéma dans le développement et/ou la répression du grand banditisme.
Les pluralismes de la création en Europe et aux États-Unis depuis 1968, ouvrage publié à l'occasion de l'exposition coproduite par le CCI et le Deutsches Architekturmuseum et présentée dans la galerie du CCI (21 février-22 avril 1985), Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, 1985, 176 p.
La plupart des ouvrages répertoriés contiennent eux-mêmes des bibliographies qui étendent le champ ouvert à la réflexion des candidats ou précisent certains thèmes auxquels elle peut s'appliquer.
www.education.gouv.fr /botexte/bo020725/MENP0201667N.htm   (3146 words)

  
 Pablo Picasso
The show was presented in Paris at the "Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume", and it finished a run at theMusée des Beaux Arts in Montreal, Canada in 2001.
Picasso érotique opened on February 29, 2001, at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, where it was shown until May 20, 2001.
Picasso érotique is organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national Picasso and the Réunion des musées nationaux in co-production with the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
www.picasso.com /exhibitions/erotique.html   (2031 words)

  
 Museums of Paris, France
As the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, it inherited an important collection of Impressionist paintings in 1947.
Situated in the Latin Quarter, the Musée de Cluny is a flamoyant Gothic structure built atop the ruins of second century Roman baths.
The Hôtel de Cluny is one of the oldest residences in Paris, with stone and brick walls of the Roman frigidarium easily visible from boulevard Saint Michel.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Paris/Paris_museums.shtml   (1772 words)

  
 Les Puces du Design : brocante des designers
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The Puces du Design, is the name of a demonstration that takes place twice a year: in May and October.
www.pucesdudesign.com   (3648 words)

  
 Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine: Siecle de sculpture anglaise: Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 juin - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Siecle de sculpture anglaise: Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 juin - 15 septembre.
Nous savons de l ' Angleterre qu ' on y boit le the a cinq heures, que sa culture est toute empreinte de paysages et que son grand art national, au XXSUPe/SUP siecle, est la sculpture.
L ' exposition du Jeu de Paume aura voulu faire du dernier de ces truismes une verite historique.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:30490984&refid=holomed_1   (258 words)

  
 Gruppo bancario Credito Valtellinese
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in association with Galleria Gruppo Credito Valtellinese
The large retrospective of the painter Georges Mathieu promoted by Paris Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in collaboration with the Credito Valtellinese Gallery of Milan is definitely an outstanding event.
He first exhibited his works on the occasion of Sesto salone dei minori di 30 anni, which was held at Paris Galerie des Beaux-Arts in 1946.
www.creval.it /gallerie_en/milano/mathieu.html   (606 words)

  
 artforum.com / NEWS
This spring, Paris's Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume will be offering a new perspective on the image.
The reconfigured Jeu de Paume will mount an exhibition dedicated to the late Helmut Newton in early May, and on June 23 the official inauguration will take place with "Guy Bourdin" and a group show featuring the works of luminaries Man Ray and Ubac along with contemporaries Bustamante and Kuntzel.
02.02.04 The Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume is transformed into a center for photo and video art; the Swiss contemporary art organization Filiale returns; and the Italian senate balks at the latest proposed changes to the Venice Biennale.
www.artforum.com /news/week=200406?sid=cf783b0c80eb2f481412ecca009825cb   (799 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Tuileries Palace Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She began the building of the palace of Tuileries in 1564, using architect Philibert de l'Orme.
The Tuileries Gardens (French Jardins des Tuileries) are surrounded by the Louvre (to the east), the Seine (to the south), the Place de la Concorde (to the west) and the Rue de Rivoli (to the north).
The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is a museum of contemporary art located in the north-west corner of the gardens.
www.ipedia.com /tuileries_palace_1.html   (758 words)

  
 Daniel Spoerri - Restaurant Spoerri au Jeu de Paume - Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Switzerland - Daniel Spoerri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Moreover, it was not until then that I learnt what he really wanted: like the exhibition in 1963, but on a much larger scale, the entire first floor of the Jeu de Paume was to be transformed into a restaurant.
Ten to fifteen students from the Ecole des Beaux Arts were hired and given a crash course in the secrets of gluing and fixing.
Indeed, it is not least to the generous intervention of this gallery that I owe both the success of the exhibition Restaurant Spoerri au Jeu de Paume and this catalogue.
www.henze-ketterer.ch /kuenstler/spoerri-jeudepaume-e.html   (2363 words)

  
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With the exhibition of his work at the Biennal de Paris in 1971, Lee earned international critical acclaim and switched the center of his activities to Europe.
Following this, his international reputation grew with a series of solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, the Padiglione d'arte Contemporanea in Milano, Lisson Gallery in London, and Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume.
Currently Lee's works are in the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Tate Modern, the Berlin National Galerie, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea.
www.hoamprize.org /english/prize/medalist/01_a_lwh.htm   (316 words)

  
 Merrily down the Seine: in the footsteps of the Impressionists | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
PARIS - After World War II, when a large collection of Impressionist paintings was moved to the Galérie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, a curator expressed the hope that the works would help viewers overcome the horrors of war and celebrate the beauty of nature.
However, over the years, the Jeu de Paume got too crowded, and tourists and art lovers had to crane their necks to appreciate the paintings.
A few hundred feet downstream is the Ecluse de Bougival, the old river lock that is still used by both barges and pleasure boats.
csmweb2.emcweb.com /2004/1103/p11s01-trgn.htm   (902 words)

  
 French Culture | Art: Exhibitions in France. 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A reconstruction of Rodin's first public art exhibition, which occured in 1900 at the Place de l'Alma and allowed the French sculptor to obtain an eminent position in European art world, this exhibition will cast new light on the origin of Rodin's quest.
In a huge greenhouse built on the "parterre de l'Orangerie", the Château de Versailles presents an exhibition conceived both as a promenade and a performance about the royal gardens.
Count Emilien de Nieuwerkerke (1811-1892) played a fundamental role in cultural policy under Napoleon III as Director of Museums and Superintendant of the Fine Arts School.
www.frenchculture.org /art/france/01.html   (907 words)

  
 Paris Voice July 2001 Art News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Jeu de Paume pays tributes to Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida, considered one of the last great 20th century sculptors.
At the Cartier foundation, this is a fresh, funky look at contemporary creativity: 150 works from around the world reflect the tremendous influence of popular culture on the art being produced today in the States and Europe.
A Beaux-Arts professor and laureate of the Grand Prix de Rome, he was best known for his famous monumental stone lion, commissioned in 1955 by Emperor Haïle Selassie, for Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
parisvoice.com /01/july/html/art.cfm   (687 words)

  
 WINDOWS\Desktop\Biennale\new   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She was previously Curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Professor at the Ecole du Louvre and Curator at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris).
She is currently an independent art critic and curator, and is curating the section devoted to Africa at the 24th Bienal de São Paulo in 1998.
Nómez is the author of several books on Chilean poets, including Pablo de Rokha y Pablo Nerude: La Escritura Total (1992), and has published a number of volumes of his own poetry, including Burning Bridges (1987) and El Fuego va Borrando (1989).
www.camwood.org /presenters.htm   (3254 words)

  
 ArtForum: "Picasso erotique": Galerie nationale du jeu de paume, Paris - Brief Article - Critical Essay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
And yet those youthful sketches of prostitutes and their clients, or simply of stereotypical fantasies, already emphasize that split between the senses of sight and touch.
In Sculpteur et son modele avec la tete sculptee du modele (Sculptor and his model with the sculpted head of the model), a 1933 etching, the sculptor touches the woman but gazes instead at his own work.
For a long time after the fierce confrontation with Les Demoiselles, though, there would be strangely little, at least in that strand of Picasso's work that came from Cubism, of what we think of as eroticism.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_10_39/ai_80485044   (746 words)

  
 The History of Tennis, Part 1
Except for the carpeting and exhibits, the jeu de paume court at Versailles appears much as it did when the game was curtailed by the French Revolution.
Jacques Louis David painted several renditions of the Tennis Court Oath which was proclaimed in the jeu de paume court at Versailles on June 20, 1789.
It is said that Louis X died of a chill immediately after playing an energetic game of jeu de paume at Château de Vincennes.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Features/History_of_Tennis.shtml   (1181 words)

  
 Magrette Paintings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The immense poster of the painting La Réconnaissance Infinie by Magritte, is presently gracing the streets and the underground of Paris announcing the Magritte retrospective at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume.
La Réconnaissance Infinie, is one of the paintings lent by David and Leslee Rogath to the museum for its retrospective.
Eva Rogath-Silbert and Maria Saraceno Ward stand in front of the billboard-size poster of “La Réconnaissance Infinie” used to announce the Magritte retrospective at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
www.chalk-vermilion.com /press_releases/magritte_0503.html   (221 words)

  
 Sculpture.org
The recent Jesús Soto retrospective at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris should initiate a reconsideration of kinetic art's emotional and existential range.
The first Soto "Penetrable" to also project a virtual volume is the one greeting viewers at the Jeu de Paume exhibition.
The desire to reach out to the average person has been a constant in Modernism, and kineticism-especially Soto's brand of it-with its desire to fuse sculpture and architecture, is hardly the exception.
www.sculpture.org /documents/scmag97/soto/sm-soto.shtml   (1374 words)

  
 Jeu de paume - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jeu de paume - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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Jeu de paume, See also and External links.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Jeu_de_Paume   (270 words)

  
 Paume - The Documentation Project - Jeu de Paume Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The indoor version is sometimes called jeu de courte paume or just courte paume (short
Hôtel du Jeu de Paume Frommer's Favorite of the court of Louis XIII, who amused themselves with Les jeux de paume (an early form of tennis) nearby.
Jeu de Paume: View 9 · Jeu de Paume: View 10 · Jeu de Paume: View 11 · Document 1: Art objects from those exhibited at the Jeu de Paume which were selected
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