Word: arts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed that even art and culture are degenerating. Originally they appealed to the head, but now their call is to the senses. "Contemporary art is pathological," he said...
Tibor Koeves (pronounced Kovesh), a Hungarian journalist who writes in English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art, a religion. Blurred at times by a little too much literary charm, as a textbook it is suggestive rather than definitive. These faults aside, it is one of the more perceptive and engaging of "travel books...
...hand manner, of course -- the unfortunate war into which Britain has been dragged. He will reminisce on the subject of cricket, paint a picture of the jolly old hills of England, and dwell upon the good fellowship which blesses Anglo-American relations. If he is adroit at the art--and obviously he is adroit, or Britain would never have let such a valuable man go in time of war -- American radio executives should learn much which will profoundly affect their later treatment of war news...
...characters who are portrayed; depth and interest are implicit in the technique. In certain of the pieces, for example, especially the few which represent the comedians, the systematic repetition of line motifs is exaggerated to such a marked degree that even a person who knows comparatively little about Oriental art cannot help but see the technical precepts which are the bases of that art...
...however, Japanese art holds no interest for you, it is possible to enter the museum library and spend a little time with the four watercolors which are now being shown, one by Hopper and the remaining three by Sargent. The Hopper landscape serves only to heighten my belief in the excellence of the artist; the solid buildings, the clear pigment, and the clean spaciousness within which each part of the painting exists, are the work of a master painter. No element in Hopper's piece is created "in vacuo"; the houses, mountains, and the water are each related...