Word: avant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowadays Rouault's paintings bring up to $12,500 apiece in Paris. Dealers prize them more & more-and have begun to question the eternal values of some of Paris' most publicized avant garde painters (to whom they now scornfully refer as "decorators"). Rouault has a sixth-floor Paris apartment in an unartistic quarter. He walks up; he hates elevators, telephones and other mechanical devices. He also has a country house in Normandy which the Germans raided in 1940, destroying the library and ripping up some of his canvases for blackout shades. Rouault's family includes six devoted...
Idealism, in the popular sense, was in full fashion among pre-Pearl Harbor students. It both pricked and tickled a contented and complacent America in the form of New Dealers, Willkie-ites, isolationists, prophets of the Golden Age of Science, the avant-garde of the "truly American" culture--it was the product of liberal education, too much education but still not enough. War broke most of the bones of those ideals, and now they are socially quite unpresentable. But an untouched and confident corps of students are stepping up to receive their dose of the liberal arts and they will...
...just what form American internationalism should take went by unnoticed. Distaste for Truman's domestic polities gave rise to an imposing carteblanche delivered to men of unknown sympathies. By 1948 Americans will know whether the Republican Party has become the new apostle of business like world cooperation or the avant-grade along the road back to the economic isolation...
When the Dial succumbed in 1929, its function had already been taken up by the Hound and Horn, founded by Lincoln Kirstein. Narrower in taste than the Dial, it printed avant-garde work of high standards. Its Henry James issue, near the end of its career in 1934, led the way to what had become ten years later almost a popular revival of the great novelist...
...remainder of the magazine is given over to impressionistic book reviews mainly of "avant garde" literature. Eric Larrabee's excellent review of Robert Frost's new book stresses the fact that we must now turn away from the post-war despair literature of the last twenty years. This May issue is an excellent indication that the swing is taking place in the Advocate Sanctum, at least among the short story writers, who may not be dealing with current war themes, but have departed from the haunted degeneracy of the past few years...