Nineteenth-century theatre in 1828. He wrote 25 plays, the most famous of which are "A Doll's House" (1879), "Ghosts" (1881), "The Wild Duck" (1884), and "Hedda Gabler" (1890). "A Doll's House" and "Ghosts" shocked conservatives: Nora's departure in "A Doll's House" was viewed as an attack on family and home, while the allusions to venereal disease and sexual misconduct in "Ghosts" were considered deeply offensive to standards of public decency. Ibsen refined Scribe's well-made play formula to make it more fitting to the realistic style. He provided a model for writers of the realistic school. In addition, his works "Rosmersholm" (1886) and
Hedda Sterne de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, and Hedda Sterne. Although the sculptors Louise Bourgeois and Mary Callery were among the signers of the letter, Hedda Sterne was the only woman in the photograph. This singularity made her name known to many who were unfamiliar with her work; as she remarked near the end of her life, "I am known more for that darn photo than for 80 years of work." In 1963, Sterne was granted a Fulbright Fellowship in painting, and spent more than a year working in Venice. Returning to New York in 1964, Sterne eschewed pressure to create