Word: fancifulism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the word shrinks and the drawings loom larger, more and more writer-artists are becoming the big moneymakers of children's books. Holling C. Holling (Seabird, Pagoo) deals with America, past and present, in large, posterlike illustrations and detailed marginal sketches that make a handsome blend of the...
Disneyland: Walt Disney's hour-long Mars and Beyond on ABC this week (Wed. 7:30 p.m.. E.S.T.) is doubly instructive. It should teach viewers of all ages plenty about the prospects of life and travel in the solar system, should serve TV producers well as a model...
A fanciful version of how the first flight might be attempted without passengers is portrayed in a cartoon film being shown in all seriousness to newsreel audiences in Russia, and seen for the first time in the U.S. this week. Produced under the direction of Yurie Khlebtsevich, chairman of a...
Klee is there, of course, as sensitive and witty as ever, and Juan Gris, as richly controlled as always. Chagall is represented at his most fanciful and most substantial, Braque displays his talent for being perennially so very right, and Rouault, as usual, exhibits as much profundity in a landscape...
FANCY DECANTERS, introduced by liquor companies to boost Christmastime sales, are on the way out. National Distillers, second-ranking U.S. liquor maker (Old Grand-Dad, Old Crow, etc.) will drop its holiday deluge of decanters this winter, figures sales increase is not worth the extra cost of molding, shipping, distributing...