Word: realism
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EVEN WHEN the author remains within the realm of realism, he relies heavily on shoddy New Journalism techniques to add flavor to his descriptions. From every party and intimate conversation, every private meeting and public confrontation, come long, laborious, detailed quotes. Was Fromson wearing a Dick Tracy-style tape recorder-wristwatch--when, for instance, he challenged his boss on arms sales and got this (exact) reply...
...responding to the six panelists, all Fellows of Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Lewis said he is a "little less ferocious" about the Reagan administration than he was last year because of a "a new realism and restraint on the president's part...
...counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...
...reminded of the work of Frederic Remington; the more discerning see the energy and muscular humanism of the Renaissance statues. In Harry Jackson (Abrams; 308 pages; $125) Author-Editors Larry Pointer and Donald Goddard sample Jackson's abstract work and offer a generous selection of his realism along with a biography of one of the mavericks of American...
Painter Tom Wesselmann, like de Kooning before him, has refused to choose sides in the controversy between abstract expressionism and the new realism. Instead, his female nudes, often in monumental proportions, inhabit both schools. The results of his energetic production are collected in the 200 pictures-100 in high-intensity color-in Tom Wesselmann (Abbeville; 321 pages; $75). The artist's huge women are usually blank idealizations adrift in mundane rooms, like the fantasies of adolescent boys. Others display explicit but deadpan eroticism among billboard-style oranges and ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann...