Word: dreamworlds
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...Feild would like to think his watercolors romantic. His exhibit represents an evocation of a mood and feeling for a region he first visited in childhood and to which he is strongly attached. Nostalgic experience, the longing "to paint myself back into a dreamworld," is a partial motivation. This accounts for an occasional sentimentality in certain pictures. (Appropriate sentiment, Mr. Feild believes, and not in self-defense, is "terribly rare...
...iconography of lushness, repetition and violence that American artists would eventually discover in their own culture. In 1952 he helped form the Independent group in London whose aim was to present mass culture as a source of art. In postwar Europe, this material seemed to come from a transatlantic dreamworld. "For the French intellectual," Paolozzi observed, "a Coca-Cola bottle was a phenomenon. In America it is merely a way of life." One of his collages, from 1948, contains the word POP issuing from the barrel of a gun: a prediction that amuses Paolozzi today. "People sometimes say that...
...evinces no primary need to analyze a film rigorously, except on its own terms (and that unevenly); neither does he feel a need to posit aesthetic values according to the complexities of pleasures they afford. Sarris's only overwhelming need is not critical, but psychological. The man wants a dreamworld, and he expresses his craving in an overtly irrational fashion...
Pusey's appeal is somewhat like that of the medieval church to peasants. We must trudge on, with blinders affixed, through these troubled times, eyes always on the "world of reason, modesty, charity and trust." This is the liberal dreamworld: its rhetoric the mortar of the ivory tower of the bourgeolsie, no more concretely responsive to the anguish of the world now than it was a hundred years...
Pusey might be cheered to know the attraction his dreamworld still holds for students. It is comfortable; we have all been educated to enjoy its detachment, privilege, and intellectual self-indulgence. A part of all of us lingers near that world. It is in our blood, and can surge out of us with debilitating power. Yet we cannot consciously dedicate ourselves to the vision once we have perceived it as a lie in the face of history. We cannot in conscience accept a bloody heritage, dependent on an oppression of the majority of the world that has historically accompanied...