Word: symbolisme
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The need for an American historian who understands the spirit of the country is defined by Bernard Fay in the current Scribners. He points out that "America. . .prey to a tremendous upheaval and laboring under the shock of events which make inoperative an exact sense of her mission and her...
His closer acquaintance with the subject, lessened the complement of imagination necessary to register the whole image on canvas. He is impersonal. He catches with the eye, of the camera, and he fortifies the object with symbolism; but his symbolism is the soul emanation of the object, not the essence...
So these new painters, the "Surrealistes" attempt to discover a world that is objective, non-abstract, meaningful, and yet inaccessible to the camera. They depict a world of the subconscious imagination, more real than conventional reality, fantastic in so far that it is opposed to the logic of our every...
And now comes "Das Lied vom Leben." On the strength of this film, director Alexis Granowsky takes his place beside Murneau and Eisenstein. This "Song of Life" is the story of a young girl's escape from a worldly bridegroom, the last of a dying line, and of her marriage...
During its first years, the Society, as has been indicated, hardly differed from most contemporary literary clubs. Its prestige as the oldest Greek letter society, and its expansion to a number of colleges, did, indeed, give to it a higher reputation than that of its fellows; but in its organization...