Books like "Huckleberry Finn" and "Anna Karenina" are artifacts; through them we trace centuries of private desire, public ideology, artistic struggle and historical necessity.

And how beautifully he sympathized with the historical and artistic struggles of 19th-century America.

Actually, Mr. Beccaria and the evening's Tosca, Maria Guleghina, were qualified combatants in this artistic struggle of wills.

One is an artistic struggle, a battle between bourgeois and bohemian impulses, or between safety and adventure.

What they could not see was the emotional wreckage that was piling up, nor the way that Saint Laurent felt increasingly pinned down by his artistic struggles.

Michelangelo Biography With a life full of spiritual, political and artistic struggle, Michelangelo's story is much deeper than his well-known masterpieces.

Despite centuries of artistic struggles, some students doodled better than others.

The actual act of ring the bell is supposed to represent the "artistic struggle with the circumstances of and inheritance from family is both necessarily violent and richly generative.

Her artistic struggle for this class, she said, is in finding the gestures and delivery to convincingly portray a student heading to class with a killer hangover.

In one small box was the jumble of Hitler's charm, his artistic struggles, his love of dogs, his shameful knees.