Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pioneers of "realism" in America. Dreiser seeks to do for his city what Dickens did for his in The Uncommercial Traveler and in other sketches. The manners are different-the American attempt not quite so successful, on the whole, as the English one. But nevertheless, The Color of a Great City is crammed with a wealth of odd detail, vivid observation and strange information. Excellent reporting, readable and alive...
...COLOR OF A GREAT CITY-Theodore Dreiser-Boni...
...more elaborate is illustrated by that brilliant but elusive lady who flashes about the dilettant magazines in purple seas of color-reproduction under the pseudonym of "Fish." The other illustrator, also an Englishwoman, is Hope Weston, who says she has tried to dip her paintbrush in star stuff to do justice to the "illumined unreason" of the Persian singer...
Both these artists depend upon color for their ultimate emotional expression, and Fish especially handles her medium with dashingly modern and exotic, not to say erotic, effect, combining it with glittering overlays of gold and silver and with rich arabesques of pen-and-ink design which suggest alternately Leon Bakst and the late Aubrey Beardsley. Hope Weston is more seriously thoughtful and mystic, in her endeavor "to visualize Khayyám as he appeared to his contemporaries-to study his mind before FitzGerald gilded his thoughts...
...Vedder tradition evidently, that both Fish and Hope Weston are trying, in their respective manners, to get away from. Just how much nearer this brings them to Jamshid and Kaiko-bad may be a question, but certainly color helps out the illusion, sometimes magically-even though Fish seems oftener Parisian than Persian, and Hope Weston is rather like an orientalized English Rackham or Dulac...