Word: hoggish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cultural self-consciousness of prewar years was almost gone. U.S. artists were concentrating more on nature, and on themselves. Instead of the sterilized barnyards of "American Scene" art, there were carefully detailed, out-of-the-way beauties. Instead of hoggish politicians and slack-breasted shopgirls, there were powerfully expressionistic symbols of luxury-with the sting left out-such as Josef Scharl's rich, melancholy Babylonia...