Word: regionalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Thomas Hart Benton, 85, Missouri-born regionalist painter; in Kansas City...
...mass audience, the old regionalist's pronouncements were oracular. He was, after all, a reformed modernist: up to 1918 he had painted "lifeless symbolist and cubist pictures," full of "my aesthetic drivelings and morbid self-concerns." He had studied in Paris, the Antichrist's lair. So he could be believed. The rhetoric never altered; he was too ancient a drummer for that. The circumstances of his career did, and violently. For a brief time, the decade ending in 1939, he-with John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood-bestrode and dominated the taste of America. His emergence, however...
INTO THIS complicated brew of motives and counter-motives is thrown the question of Scottish independence. Labour may be denied a majority not by the Conservatives or even the Liberals, but by the various nationalist or regionalist parties, particularly the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP). The SNP holds 18 of the 71 Scottish seats at Westminster and chances are that they will increase this substantial share. The SNP stands for eventual self-government for Scotland, but its most immediate goal is economic independence...