Word: realism
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...been assigned the problem of writing operas of their own: in one, a hillbilly, over his mother's strong objections, goes to New York to pursue a career as a folk singer and becomes famous. Art students take a Vermeer masterpiece and, on a transparent overlay, convert his realism into a cubist painting, while trying to preserve the structure of the original...
...Speculations About Jakob) have dealt perhaps more effectively than any other writers with the peculiar poignancy of the human condition in the postwar world. Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Werner Henze have emerged as composers of worldwide status, and a younger group of West Berliners is experimenting with "post-pop realism." Just about every West German town of any size has opera and repertory theater. And for those who prefer to stay at home, West Germany's two state-owned TV channels pipe some of the world's most original and tasteful tube-borne entertainment into more than ten million West...
...rest of Christendom, forced to live in ghettos, made to wear special clothing, confined to such shunned occupations as money-lending. What brought the era of anti-Semitic art to an end in the 16th century, Blumenkranz says, was the artistic sophistication of the Renaissance, with its emphasis on realism, and the Reformation. Once Catholics and Protestants began to fight one another, they had less interest in baiting Judaism...
...cafes of Paris but the more innocent one of the soda fountains of the U.S. He avoided the hurdy-gurdy of boxing matches, bathing beaches and laundry slung from slum fire stairs. Yet it is Glackens' reportorial honesty that lends to his lush vision of realism of America on the eve of world involvement...
...further inform his own way of seeing, Manet drew from all the enthusiasms and movements of his day, from the realism of Courbet to the clarity of the camera, from the sketches of Renaissance masters to Japanese prints. But though his natural allies were the impressionists, he refused to run with the renegades who were slightly younger, preferred instead to challenge the painting establishment on its own grounds-the official painting salons...