Sentences with phrase «against social realism»

In a 1999 interview with The Observer newspaper, Caulfield said his interest in interiors developed in art school as a reaction against social realism.

In an interview with the Observer the same year, Caulfield said his interest in interiors developed in art school as a reaction against social realism.

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Returning to filmmaking after saying he was retiring in 2014, the 80 - year - old Loach rails against the system with his trademark style of stripped - down social realism.

There's been a backlash against these films in recent years (partly levelled at the public school, Oxbridge provenance of the filmmakers), but the fact that most of them ride high on this list suggests they're still credited with initiating a new age of storytelling in British cinema, both in terms of the range, social and geographical, of subjects and a style of filmmaking that honours realism above all else.

The provincial city in Weekend is never named, but the film was shot in Nottingham, in many of the same locations as Karel Reisz's landmark of kitchen - sink realism Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which also spans a weekend and whose characters are likewise bristling against the social climate of their time; Glen is in some ways a modern, gay version of Albert Finney's original angry young man.

After the western art capitol moved from Paris to New York because of the wars, critics like Greenberg posed American abstraction against Socialist Realism, and the standpoint of Social Realism became confused.

He spoke in favour of abstract art, and against the more fashionable Social Realism movement.