Word: dynamisme
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The big problem for artists who did not want to follow the usual pattern of expatriation was how to be both modern and at the same time American. Most modern American art from the teens and '20s had a homemade, do-it-yourself, rule-of-thumb look. Arthur Dove...
Moreau was Matisse's teacher, but he is not an artist who fits into the formalist canons of "modernism." Indeed, for 50 years it has been de rigueur to reject his work as florid and sickly, despite its demonstrable influence on surrealism and its frequently astonishing beauty. That beauty...
Actually, the American way of life is characterized by a delicate interplay between inequality and equality. Inequality is the less talked about, but in fact the more fervently practiced. It is the great generator, inspiring the energy that spanned the American continent. It multiplies the wealth, sharpens the wits, creates...
Any show called Perry Mason should be an easy money-maker, CBS must have thought. I hope they're wrong. I hope the new show fails before it molds Perry Mason and his colleagues into forgettable characters. The Mason created in 1933 by Erle Stanley Gardner was a volatile, often...
Surely there had to be something to keep so many people coming to weekly rehearsals for almost two years, some only to walk onstage for as little as a minute or two. Joe Leggio, a local banker whose business sense helped keep the show afloat, rolls his eyes to heaven...