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Letter "A" » American art
«One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
| Keywords:
American art, Bad art, Bad movie, cleverly, displaying, interpreted, present day, proving, put into practice, secrete, secreted, secretes, secreting, wrapped
«The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
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Advertising
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advertisement, American art, intact, introduced, lavish, lavished, lavishing, of value, superlative, superlatives
«An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts.»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
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aesthete, aesthetes, American art, astonishing, evolved, performing, performing arts, recently
«I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American art, write about
«Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts / a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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accompaniment, American art, American government, black art, buried, funeral, In the Navy, Marine, Marines, navy, reminiscence, reminiscences, under arms, yard
«Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art»
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