Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most Japanese technological literature is not translated into English," he said, "and therefore not available to [U.S.] labs." Atkins said the Japanese government already employs over 1000 workers who do nothing but translate U.S. technological material into Japanese...
Five-and-a-half years later, after the publication of his second novel, Of Time and the River, Wolfe traveled to Paris. There he met Sylvia Beach, owner of the noted English bookstore Shakespeare and Company. She thought Wolfe "indubitably a young man of genius" but "perhaps very unsatisfactory as a social being...
...Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Howard Hodgkin -- now strike us as not just a footnote to, but an essential part of, the visual culture of the past 80 years: neither "provincial" nor "minor," but singular and grand? What muffled the recognition of British art? Partly, it must be admitted, the English themselves. No nation in this century has been harder on its own artists...
...most durable form of English hostility came not from the Royal Academy, whose fogies died off, but from the enlightened purlieus of Bloomsbury, where the critic Roger Fry, who had organized the first postimpressionist show at the Grafton Galleries in 1910, and his truculent fugleman Clive Bell, inventor of the catch-phrase "significant form," made it just fine to despise new English art in the name of the French avant-garde. Given their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything...
...which evoked so little from French artists, inspired some English ones to their best work; Paul Nash's A Night Bombardment, 1919-20, a view of the sea of cratered mud and dead trees at the front, is both formally rigorous and filled -- though not a figure appears in it -- with the most intense pathos, an elegy for the pastoral mode itself. Facing a mechanized world whose origins lay in England's Industrial Revolution, Lewis argued, the English should be peculiarly fitted to make art of it: "They are the inventors of this bareness and hardness, and should...