Word: realism
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August 2: Leslie Fiedler, the American critic of the novel, who will speak on "Realism: A Mythological Approach...
...Castelli Gallery put on a one-man show titled "Store Fronts," which is all they were: a row of fullscale, blank and well-lighted store fronts made of metal with Plexiglas windows backed by brown wrapping paper. The artist is a 30-year-old Bulgarian escapee from Soviet Realism named Christo, who has lived in New York since...
Whatever other differences Stalin and Khrushchev might have had, they were of like mind on one issue: they liked hummable music. In 1948, Russia's leading composers were summoned to a meeting and warned of the evils of the unmelodious music of Western modernists. Stick to "socialist realism," they were told. Under Nikita, the malady lingered on. Said he: "We flatly reject this cacophony music. Our people cannot use this rubbish as a tool of their ideology...
When Arthur Schlesinger Jr. let loose his thunderbolt against Dean Rusk last Sunday, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at last found its target. The assault began on February 17th when Senator Robert Kennedy criticized the Johnson Administration for a lack of realism in refusing to negotiate directly with the NLF, and the attack continued when John Kenneth Galbraith appeared before the Fulbright Committee and called for a "new generation" of statesmen. Schlesinger's salvo, however, cleverly emphasized party unity by dissociating the President from the Administration's foreign policy and resting the blame squarely on the Secretary...
...formal expression. While investigating the problems of perspective and the antique canons of proportion, Durer tried to instill his Germanic naturalism with a disciplined Renaissance structure. Yet even in his most formalized, classical drawings there remains a constant struggle between reason and intuition, between generalizing formalism and particularizing realism...