Word: realism
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PETER BLUME-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. Two paintings and 48-odd drawings display Blume's magic realism...
GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Circle at 59th. Many artists begin with realism and wind up with abstractions; reversing the process, Frenchman Jean Hélion first earned a reputation for his nonobjective paintings and then turned to nature. Sixty works trace his interesting development. Through...
There are critics (Grove is already assembling them) who will defend as art and high realism a book that describes such life and death with the primitive but undeniable power and anger that Author Selby demonstrates. But Last Exit to Brooklyn is not realism at all. Instead, it is a hypocrisy just as flagrant as the old-fashioned kind that wrote for dirty words and **** for scenes of sex. What Selby scrupulously elides are all the pleasant moments of life. What's left, he tells in a style that will also inevitably be hailed as "tape-recorder realism"-because...
Fail Safe is too absurd to be realistic, and too simple minded to be a commentary on world politics. Its only traces of realism are recognizable titles and place names, like President, 20 megaton bomb, and Moscow. The story would have lost all its impact if a fictitious city instead of New York had been destroyed. Perhaps a bombing of Hollywood would have been more appropriate...
...generally recognized as the most effective means of raising tax revenues and has been advocated by many Democrats, Peabody and Mayor Collins among them. By proposing increased state income taxes, Volpe has sought to minimize the need for the regressive sales tax. Thus he proposes a compromise between fiscal realism and liberal idealism. If passed by the legislature, these reforms would permit Volpe to cut property taxes, thereby stimulating industrial expansion...