Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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(4 of 12) straight. I don't think that the expression has anything to do with saliva. It originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing-without dialect-is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of someone whose father had passed...
Yet an urge for self-destruction has not so characterized the period as the wider compulsions of experimentation and free expression, almost a motor reflex to lurch in new directions. In the years immediately following World War I, Gertrude Stein was offering as much challenge as pity when she branded...
IN RUSSIA, if you tell someone your troubles and then disregard his advice, your advisor will probably shrug and say. "It's your life." In this country, says Russian emigre Edward Limonov, we have no patience for anyone but ourselves. Without even listening, we use the formula "that's your...
When Edouard Manet died of tertiary syphilis in 1883 at the age of 51, Emile Zola and Claude Monet helped carry his coffin to the grave. In life, his milieu had included nearly every French artist of significance, along with writers of the stature of Charles Baudelaire and Sté...
I find the incongruity between ideology and real life especially disheartening when it distorts feminist thinking. As a model I was occasionally subjected to the criticisms and disdain of women who called themselves feminists. Once, while modeling on a talk show. I introduced myself during a filming break to one...