Biskra definition of Biskra in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

This is only one topic (unraveled in two chapters, one on the 1907 Blue Nude--which was subtitled Souvenir de Biskra only in 1931, a fascinating find in itself--and the other on the 1912-13 Moroccan paintings), but every major work, from Luxe, calme, et volupte, 1904-05, and The Joy of Life, 1905-06, to Dance II, 1909-10, and Music, 1910, is similarly recontextualized, restoring to Matisse the edge that recent scholarship had tended to blunt.

Books: best of 2005; Twelve scholars, critics, and artists choose the ... by Artforum International

The name derives from the town of Biskra in Algeria, though whether the first weavers of biskri had emigrated from Algeria to Djerba or whether Djerban weavers simply imitated the design of a (possibly defunct) type of cloth woven in Biskra, and perhaps traded to Djerba via Libya, remains a subject of future research.

Urban textile traditions of Tunisia by Hudson, Julie / African Arts

One example of the Gidean philosophical dichotomization is found in the French author's comment in Madeleine on the opposition between the "wonderful feminine figures solicitously watching over [his] childhood" (17), emblematic of a purely disincarnate love, and the "objects" of his carnal desires, such as the three schoolboys in the train to Biskra, Algeria, one of the locales of his discovery of his "pederastic" leanings, to which he returned during this honeymoon.

Revisiting 'Madeleine' and "The Outing": James Baldwin's revision of ... by Romanet, Jerome de / MELUS

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