Word: jacobinism
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...with a grisly wheeled mechanism in the foreground, he sees what few believe. Such a one may be a member of the artist colony of Woodstock, Mass., whose pictures were last week on exhibit at the Boston Art Club. These artists are the Whigs of modern painting, an aesthetic Jacobin Club. Followers of the innovations of Derain and Picasso, their art is to intensify reality by warping it, to convince by deception. Notably successful among them are Judson Smith, landscape painter, Warren Wheelock, Earnest Fiene. The latter, with two canvases, Spring and Autumn, represents the most effective...
...inability to cope with the situation shows that dread reaction on the part of half the population renders any plausible suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling and inordinately repressive laws forced the postponement of much needed political and industrial reform for a period of nearly ten years. With the spread of Bolshevism through Russia and into Germany, with radicalism and anarchism the hidden watchword of imaginary Corresponding Societies...
Modern Language Conference. Papers: The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. Mr. C. Cestre.- Notes on Fletcher's "Faithful Shepherdess." Mr. H. A. Eaton. Sever...
Modern Language Conference. Papers: The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. Mr. C. Cestre.- Notes on Fletcher's "Faithful Shepherdess." Mr. H. A. Eaton. Sever...