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1 day ago · The latter part of the 20th century saw an increased globalization of literature, with works from around the world being translated and reaching international audiences. 13. Latin American magical realism, with authors like Gabriel García Márquez, blended the real and the fantastical, influencing writers globally. 14.
3 days ago · Summarize This Article. Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by the English writer George Orwell ...
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That’s not at all the truth, Serbia was just the excuse that both France and Germany wanted. The truth was France had been itching for a fight since 1871 to reconquer Alsace-Lorraine. Germany knew that, and its military planners had predicted that Russian industrialization would outpace German military production at some point in the 1920s-1930s.
1 day ago · Olympic Games, quadrennial athletic festival that is often regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition. The ancient Olympic Games included several sports that are now part of the Summer Games program, which includes events in as many as 32 different sports. Learn more about the Olympic Games in this article.
5 days ago · Surrealism, movement in European visual art and literature between the World Wars that was a reaction against cultural and political rationalism. Surrealism grew out of the Dada movement, but its emphasis was on positive expression. Members included Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, and Leonora Carrington.
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- What was Surrealism and its goal?Surrealism was a movement in visual art and literature that flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. The movement represented a reaction a...
- What are the characteristics of Surrealism?Surrealism has no unified style, but, in painting, one can distinguish a range of possibilities falling between two extremes. At one pole, the view...
- How are Surrealism and Dada related?Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which, before World War I, produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason...
- Which artists practiced Surrealism?The major Surrealist painters were Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Pierre Roy, Paul Delvaux, and Joan...
- Who first used the word Surrealism?Poet Guillaume Apollinaire first used the term “surrealist” in 1917 to describe Jean Cocteau’s ballet Parade, and the word appeared in his own play...
2 days ago · If the American literature that Emerson had summoned into being in the 1830s and '40s helped galvanize opinion that led to the Civil War, the Civil War in turn changed what that literature would be, and this poem by Whitman is just an example of that. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ca. 1872. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.
