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miserabilism
noun
mid-20th century French art movement.
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ˈmɪzɹəbəlɪz(ə)m
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noun
mid-20th century French art movement.
“Along with the briefly popular painters of a style known as Miserabilism in the early 1950s, Buffet's pictures were easily digestible accompaniments to the existential revulsion described in Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea (La Nausée), 1938, and the fiction of Albert Camus, melded with the sordid underbelly of Georges Simenon's detective stories.”
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Along with the briefly popular painters of a style known as Miserabilism in the early 1950s, Buffet's pictures were easily digestible accompaniments to the existential revulsion described in Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea (La Nausée), 1938, and the fiction of Albert Camus, melded with the sordid underbelly of Georges Simenon's detective stories.