Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Excellence in the arts, he explained, is primarily the result of competition. while a totalitarian state "usually has a deleterious effect on art," a world of totalitarian states having the same concept of beauty, might produce a great artistic revival, he maintained. Friedrich added, "the would be particularly true if...
WHAT are the values that Miller would have us rediscover, beneath our civilized facades? His book is itself these values. This certainly does not mean that art, as a diversion from life, will provide the missing purpose and fulfillment. The book is Miller's value because it is a portion...
An extraordinarily gentle and soft-spoken person, Gropper seemed the angriest of men on canvas. His paunchy bosses, downtrodden workers and wounded soldiers not only parroted the party line and mirrored the headlines but were a staple of the artistic diet. After World War II, taste in art changed, and...
I disagree completely with Gardner's outlook, and those who think that it's not what you say but how you say it in things artistic can skip this part of my review and read only my comments about the production, which I enjoyed. It seems to me that The...
Summer and Smoke (Hal Wallis; Paramount). Playwright Tennessee Williams often writes like an arrested adolescent who disarmingly imagines that he will attain stature if (as short boys are advised in Dixie) he loads enough manure in his shoes. In his most famous plays he has hallucinated a vast but specious...