Paolo Uccello: Miracle of the profaned host.
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UBU ROI
Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi detonated theatrical convention with its opening word, unleashing a grotesque tyrant whose cowardice, greed and appetite for destruction anticipated Dada, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd.
PAOLO UCCELLO
Florentine painter Paolo Uccello pursued linear perspective with obsessive delight, arranging warriors, horses and shattered lances into Renaissance battle scenes of dreamlike mathematical order.
JERRY UELSMANN
Photographer Jerry Uelsmann combined multiple negatives in the darkroom to create impossible black-and-white landscapes decades before digital manipulation made such dream worlds commonplace.
ULTRAVOX!
Led by John Foxx, Ultravox! fused punk urgency, glam-rock theatricality and cold electronic experimentation into a blueprint for the British music that followed.
SIGRID UNDSET
Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset brought the moral conflicts, domestic realities and spiritual life of medieval Scandinavia into intimate focus through her monumental Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy.
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