Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Weiss are classifying and editing. Peirce has been characterized as the greatest American philosophic genius. He is the creator of pragmatism and the founder of modern logic. James, Royce, Schroder, and Dewey have acknowledged their indebtedness to him. He introduced into modern philosophy the doctrine of scholastic realism, developed the concepts of chance, continuity and objective law, and showed the philosophical significance of the theory of signs and mathematical logic...
...This book says in effect that if the militarists want realism, we will give it to them. Here is war not seen through the lenses of anybody's prejudice but caught in the act by the camera. . . . Back of the camouflage of uniform and music, oratory and popular cheering, this is the gist and essence of war at the point where it specifically operates. . . . Let this book, then, do its quiet work. Let it say . . . that war is a mad and barbarous business...
...CLAIRVOYANT?Ernst Lothar? Kinsey ($2.50). First publication of a new House, Ernst Lothar's book lands firmly on its literary feet. As an example of the modern Teutonic school of novel-writing, which lines clouded realism with silvery romance, it deserves good marks. Rustic Sebastian Trux comes to the big city to become a banker's lawyer, but Fate opposes. Millionaire Rafael Bassan, who owns racing-stables and tries to own his beautiful bad wife Fedora, has just been robbed of a fortune in stocks & bonds. Ambitious Rustic Trux calls attention to himself by prophesying, from...
...degree, Moravian Ernst Lothar spent more time writing poetry than in study. After graduation he pursued both law and literature, made both contribute to his successful trilogy, Power Over All Men. Now, more & more literary, more & more lawless, he attempts in his novels to hybridize fancy with realism, intuition with not necessarily legal truth...
...Surrealisme" in painting is a revolt against abstraction. With the invention of photography in the last century painters had subconsciously realized that representational art was dead, bested by the camera. And so while many painters insensitive to new influences continued to push painting to the extreme boundaries of realism, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso and their followers developed abstract expressions, Purism, Cubism, etc. But their theories were based on the assumption that man possesses a sixth sense, the so-called aesthetic sense, which vibrates in response to pure forms, colors, arrangements, proportions, divorced not only from reality, but also impoverished...