Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl has become engaged to another man without telling him. The dialogue is convincing, and the character of the girl is will described. Mr. Ferris' "Attis" is a more ambitious piece of work, concerning the relation between an artist and the conventionality of a Southern town. So described, the theme sounds conventional, but this story is not conventional at all. Mr. Ferris puts his reader rapidly into the middle of the action, almost uncomfortably so, for his artist is such a strange individual that we ought to be more carefully prepared for him than we are. There is something hectic...
...caustic evaluation of painters from Giotto to Rivera (TIME, April 27, 1931). Last week it had occasion to heed him again when he published his long-awaited sequel Modern Art.* Critic Craven's second book, like his first, is a series of brilliant biographies ornamenting his chief theme: true art should be representational and born of a passion to interpret life. Such a standard automatically condemns abstractionists like Picasso or Braque whom Mr. Craven damns with glee. Most readers will find his statements as exhilarating and convincing as a homerun. Art dealers and Francophile connoisseurs will be less pleased...
Before an audience that even the ban by Miss Ada Comstock and the subsequent publicity could hardly rouse to enthusiasm, the H.D.C. put on their spring madhouse and a madhouse it was. Lacking any tangible central theme and leaving the people at the end of the first half of the play with the uncomfortable feeling that they didn't know what it was all about, the drama certainly demanded a bit of courage...
...designers Virgil Thomson, collaborator with Gertrude Stein in that lady's only opera, and Joe Losey, director of "Lil' Ole Boy," is rare indeed. But the consideration of these facts must make the critical judgment of the effort more searching than would otherwise be the case. In respect to theme, "A Bride for the Unicorn" cannot be considered as more than a competent synthesis of a group of philosophical and aesthetic conceptions which have been in circulation at a conservative estimate, for fifteen years...
...Craig's method of handling this varied and rather large assortment is distinctly praiseworthy. On one page is presented the Spanish original and on the facing page Mr. Craig's English version. These translations are, on the whole, very good. No matter what the theme Mr. Craig seems to be able to approach with understanding the mood, meter, and meaning of the Latin-American poet. Of course something is lost in translating, but one has the feeling that the loss is kept at a minimum. As a study and presentation of the literature of a foreign tongue, this book...