Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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OSCAR WILDE DISCOVERS AMERICA- Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith- Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). In 1881 the inimitable musicomedies of Gilbert & Sullivan were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Shrewd Producer D'Oyly Carte was planning to send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta...
This Virginian aristocrat, whose natural ability and profession of the law drove him against his inclinations into public life, had the same background, the same attitude as Washington, but a "far wider" range of intellectual and esthetic interests. A fine figure of a man (his sandy hair was six feet...
From room to room Director Barr has arranged his exhibits to trace the development of abstract art from the Cubists, who formalized what was still representational art, to the latest Constructivists whose esthetic thrills come from the mere sight of wheels within wheels.
Desire (Paramount). There are two possible reasons why this picture was approved by the Hays organization. The first is that its agents were not sophisticated enough to understand it. The second is that U. S. cinema censors have suddenly become sufficiently enlightened to pass scenes showing a young couple misbehaving...
"Resemblance to natural objects, while it does not necessarily destroy these esthetic values, may easily adulterate their purity. Therefore since resemblance to nature is at best superfluous and at worst distracting, it might as well be eliminated."