They had seen a pic of a smaller painting of an old Ford that I did a couple years ago and wanted to know if I could do a larger one like it but they wanted it to be a bit rusty and look like it was sitting out in some tall grass. This is what I came up with. Always luv...
• Audiences become attached to soaps that have a strong sense of social realism.• It fostered an atmosphere of intimidation and blackmail within which realism came to sound like racism.• However, their idealism is tempered with realism....
I will first introduce a notion which I find helpful precisely when revisiting realism yet with no intention of reinventing realism or launching yet another program for some kind of neo-realism. I will call the notion embedment, a process for which ...
Before 1967 García Márquez had published two novels,La hojarasca(1955;The Leaf Storm) andLa mala hora(1962;In Evil Hour); a novella,El coronel no tiene quien le escriba(1961;No One Writes to the Colonel); and a few short stories. Then cameOne Hundred Years of Solitude, in which Garc...
Some talented writers turned to the safer areas ofchildren’s literatureand translation. Others, such asValentin Katayevin his productionnovelVremya, vperyod!(1932;Time, Forward!) and Fedin inPervyye radosti(1946;Early Joys), sought to infuse official writing with some interest. Quite popular was...
At any rate, her editors were looking for people to read early manuscript copies, and he gave them my name. Eventually (a month after he told me all this!), the book came in the mail to the owner, who then asked if I wanted it. I had a fangirl moment “Ohmygod, ohmyGod, OH...
combination of realism and romanticism. The term “socialist realism” immediately came into wide use and was confirmed by the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers (1934), at which Gorky said that the new method was a creative program that aimed to realize revolutionary humanism: “...
In 1962, at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York, the group organized the International Exhibition of the New Realists, a joint showing of contemporary American Pop Art and the Nouveau Realisme movement; and in 1963 came the last group show - an exhibition at the Biennale of San Marino. ...
The history of Bohemia Interactive begins in the 1980s. Living in Czechoslovakia, Mark and Ondrej Spanel were, at the time, immensely fascinated with the first PCs. First, they wrote simple programs in BASIC, then came Atari XL and attempts to create their own games. The brothers then found...
Halloween books and comics throughout my middle childhood, which roused my own editions of horror pamphlets and graphic novels. In my early adolescence, that muse came alive in written roleplaying adventures I shared with friends. Then, at eighteen, it all flipped upside-down when my father ...