Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern art and "traditional" art have both been championed for years in such inflated terms and with such agitated voodoo that intelligent men may well be bored with the whole controversy. Most artists are. Supercilious esthetes and professional scoffers being alike discredited, the most promising movement in art criticism is toward a simpler, less pretentious and closer examination of the facts of art. The past fortnight was notable for turning up two clear books of this sort...
Read's false definition leads to a false antithesis: resentational"' art between and traditional as nontraditional "rep as ''non-representational" art. Analyst Her ter thinks this is the root of modern confusion...
Exposition. In Primitivism in Modern Painting- Fine Arts Instructor Robert...
...emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...
...good friend of Captain Liddell Hart and of the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence, Robert Graves crams his book with superb accounts of Belisarius' military strategy, makes catapults and mounted archers seem as modern as machine guns and tanks. Count Belisarius sags from its weight of historical detail, as Graves's earlier novels...