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Word: realism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme that is not so much hackneyed as perennial, Artist-Author Lindsay has tacked a tale that should tickle many readers. His profuse and enthusiastically unconventional drawings of wilder & wilder life on his desert island share the satirical realism of his sharply moraled tale. What would really happen to three men and a girl cast up together in an Eden enforced? There have been plenty of guesses; Author Lindsay's is as good as any, more entertaining than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Isle, Inc. | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...should do better falls in with a shop girl. The fraction, however, must be a large one. Also large is the percent of actresses who succeed in making the little shopgirl completely artificial. Miss Sheridan, however, with such a part in "Cynara," has achieved the most poignant kind of realism, a success that reflects great credit not only to herself but also to the writing of the play...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...Last Mile (World Wide) is a querulous picture of life in the deathhouse. John Wexley's play, based on a deathhouse convict's actual diary and news reports of several prison breaks, was angrily realistic. The cinema has omitted the anger and realism, added hope rays and a new plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...field than the late Joseph Pennell, Mr. Beneker has undertaken to show only the art of steel manufacture and the men who engage in the task. Unlike the etchings of Pennell which represent merely the image that reaches the human eye, the rich oils of Beneker convey all the realism of being, and all the strength and solidity of steel. Perhaps it is the medium in which the work is done that accounts for the difference; the paintings depict with more life-like fidelity and color the shapes of qualities of things, the stylus tends to tinge the reproduction with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/20/1932 | See Source »

...exhibit, an attempt has been made to show the more modern work of a group of interesting young American painters. Because of the present tendency toward individualism in American art circles, widely differing treatment of subject matter may be found in this exhibit. It takes one from the realism of Ganso's "Still Life with Peaches", to the abstraction of Stuart Davis' brilliantly colored "Drying Sails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/16/1932 | See Source »

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