Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tamayo, a Zapotec Indian, likes to repeat: "My feeling is Mexican, my color is Mexican, my shapes are Mexican." Then he adds, "But my thinking is a mixture." His thoughts about art are cosmopolitan and drawn more from the school of Paris than from the militantly proletarian school of his...
The two writers were as different as Scotch and Burgundy. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a gentleman genius who practically invented the historical novel, and wrote out of rich learning in Scotland's romantic past; Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a brilliant upstart who wrote with "the overflow...
His Very Self and Voice, edited by Ernest J. Lovell Jr. Carefully culled reports and comments by contemporaries add up to a fascinating picture of Poet Lord Byron, professional romantic and "most amiable monster'' (in Stendhal's phrase) and his loves, feuds, scrapes and enthusiasms (TIME, Jan...
Second Maid. The world of Sir Henry was made by Novelist Robert (Portrait of Jennie) Nathan. It is located at the intersection where whimsy and satire collide. It is a slap-happy world, in a well-bred way, where the fish are philosophical. "There are creatures beyond us; for I...
Where Sir George Grove in Grove IV was "certain" that Beethoven's romantic "attachments were all honorable," Grove V is more cautious, also concludes that "we need not expend much pity upon Beethoven the thwarted lover." Beethoven's cryptic answer when asked what the Appassionato Sonata meant ("Read...