Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little known or unknown writers as W. B. Yeats, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Anatole France, H. G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, as well as the poetry of Stephen Crane, the fiction of Henry James. They published one of the first (and still classic) examples of the new realism, Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Their designers were (and still are) the best in the country: Bruce Rogers, Updike, Goudy. A little heard-of French painter named Toulouse-Lautrec made an advertising poster for them. The Chap-Book started the vogue of Little Magazines (then called...
...Realism. No one has given Wilhelmina more trouble in recent years than Adolf Hitler, and from no ruler has the Führer taken, at times, such straight talk. She protested in a personal letter to Herr Hitler the death sentence passed on Marinus van Der Lubbe, the Dutch Communist, for his alleged part in the famed Reichstag fire. When the Nazis confiscated the passports of German bridesmaids and guests to her daughter's wedding, she stated with quiet directness: "This is the marriage of my daughter to the man she loves, whom I have found worthy...
...Paris, permanently, and in swift succession followed the "Harlequin," "Rose" and "Negro" periods. By 1908 he was pioneering in cubism, with a side foray into pasted paper compositions. Picasso's seven years' designing for the Russian Ballet, beginning in 1917, led him into a neo-classical realism, culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left not one line of The Three Graces on another. Picasso's subsequent work has been a jumble of abstractionist, dadaist, expressionist...
...Fear will be hovering above the person's head and the bed upon which he is resting might be transformed into the automobile he was driving when an accident occurred. All elements of natural law and human reason are distorted. In many respects, Futurism is quite similar to Sur-realism...
Lawrence, after vainly attempting to set up a cult of his own, established some sort of mystical communion with the cow, Susan, about whom he wrote what the lay mind cannot consider better than gibberish. Professor Tindall brings an uncompromising realism and common-sense to his subject, although he occasionally lapses into something like sympathy. Not that there can ever be true sympathy between a Mozartian on the one hand and a Wagnerite like Lawrence on the other! This is Professor Tindall's second study of a literary figure for whom he has no real liking (Bunyan was the first...