Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long vanished and the painful consciousness of the attrition of the remaining institutions of that society reflect a state of mind that at its most eloquent, approaches the Romantic lament for a lament which has progressed too far in time past its Golden Age. The coupling of the somewhat unreal and surrealistically horrifying present with an all too real past that can never completely die in the memory lies at the heart of Faulkner's artistic creation. This sense of time is both peculiarly Southern and universal: one thinks of Poe, of Proust, of Lanier, or even of Francois Villon...
...fantasy-life of the Renaissance was not a mass dream. The American Revolution, the French Revolution fostered great, stirring dreams-confined to history. To rediscover an imaginative form which includes the real and the unreal, emotions and the phantasmagoria, we must look back to our Middle Ages and their noble courts of love. But the fate of Christianity was not decided in the courts of love; it was determined by those who, looking quite objectively at the 10th century mercenaries they saw around them, resolved to bring knighthood into flower from them...
...ugly to last out a season; now people speculate about what it will have meant "when it dies." Yet abstract art does not die easily. Top U.S. artists, who used to paint recognizable subjects, put their real mark upon the world when they began to paint the unseen, the unreal and the untidy. And they have been around long enough for critics now to cast about for ancestors to confirm abstractionism in a tradition of its own. Last week an exhibition in West Germany revealed a new "father" of abstractionism; he turned out to be none other than the great...
...suppose he intended it) a sense of exaltation, induced by being in the presence of men," his soldiers. In his view, the Army's critics are dead wrong when they say that the military has isolated itself from the French reality. Rather, France herself has grown unreal, and failed to face the issues...
...like a round-robin, fold-over-and-add-a-line letter: "You certainly are an unusual girl to find in this sort of place . . . Darling, I love enough for two . . . My father used to say that love comes on silent feet . . . It's all so foolish, all so unreal." And that's a fact...