Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London, Victorian curios...
People make noises about "Victorian morality" as a synonym for all those repressive forces that denied humanity its natural evolution toward Hustler magazine and Laurel Canyon group-gropes, but Victorian culture is still somewhat enigmatic. Nowhere is this truer than in painting. Modernism, the art of the past hundred years, defined itself in opposition to 19th century "bourgeois" painting: the art of the Salon in France, of the Royal Academy in England. Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse were everything that Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Edward John Poynter and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema were not and could not be. There...
Angel Street--Victorian mystery-drama--or so they tell me. At the Cambridge Acting Company, a/k/a The Hasty Pudding Club, Holyoke St., Friday and Saturday at 7:30. Brother Blue '48--Storyteller supreme, complete with feathers. Saturday and Sunday at 8 at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston...
Angel Street--Patrick Hamilton's Victorian thriller. The second production of the Cambridge Acting Company. At the Hasty Pudding, Holyoke St., Friday and Saturday at 8, Sunday...
...created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist's ear for Greco-American intonations is uncanny, and his destructive bitch goddess is so lethal that her comeuppance deserves the kind of cheers villains received when they were foiled in the last acts of Victorian melodramas. Neither they nor Acts of Love should be mistaken for Greek tragedy...