Word: realisms
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...granted that "movements" are more a dealer's spiel than a real feature of current art, there are still affinities among artists. What are the main ones here? To begin with, realist painting-but with a twist. The plain declarative style of tonal realism, whose American master is Philip Pearlstein, is hardly in evidence, although there are some exquisitely rendered pastel studies of gray, tumblng Midwestern skies by William Beckman at the Hirshhorn, and the Whitney has some beautifully observed images by William Bailey (still life) and Rackstraw Downes (panoramic landscape). The best figurative work at the Guggenheim...
...political spectrum it comes from. He picks apart partisan politics with the passion of an inspired poly-sci professor, noting casually that "a lot of this will be cleared up in my upcoming book." But Tsongas has already sounded his bugle for the charge of "humanistic realism," a leaner, meaner brand of liberalism he thinks will work in the 1980s. With his wordy solutions and academic jargon, Tsongas has, whether he likes it or not, formed a new political ideology, which he predicts will galvanize the country's moderates and liberals...
...realism of a Flaubert, a Manet, a Degas thought not. This kind of realism was expository, not didactic. It did not aim to show things as they might be-the argument of political art - but as they actually were. Its model, often invoked by Flaubert, was the objective procedure of scientific thought, and its aim was to produce a perfectly limpid art in which the world would be mirrored. There is everything in common between the relentless detail in which the boredom and pointlessness of Emma Bovary's life was built up, and the minutely articulated jumble of reflections...
CANDIDATE AND PRESIDENT Reagan both placed heavy emphasis on "realism." NO more ambitious social programs, he vowed; "accepting the world as it is" was to be the administration's international credo. But to in his first major speech on the economy and in his advisers' subsequent specific additions to it, the president has placed his faith in an untested and highly speculative course of action that could very well worsen the economic "mess" he wants so desperately to clean...
...talk about controlling inflation and reducing unemployment, there exists a substantial gulf between Reagan's optimistic predictions of his policies' effects and a "realistic" analysis of what they will do. Even in one of its first actions--the decontrol of oil prices--the administration found that its brand of realism might not be that realistic after all. Reagan and his advisers were surprised to see gas prices rise by about seven or eight cents a gallon after decontrol--and may also be surprised and disappointed not to see production increase as much as they expect. This shock may only...