How To Use Modernist In A Sentence
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Try to see it on a big screen for the full effect of its magnificent, cheerless vistas, which meld ice and sky in a horizonless prospect, highlighting the drama as if on a modernist stage.
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An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
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Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion.
Postmodernism
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In this way, the Academy's representation of modernist pieces was only part of the battle.
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This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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That said, the compression and reticence of Italian high modernist poetry are still prominent stylistic features in Italian verse.
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Often post-Soviet Russian literature is called postmodernist when what is really meant is that it is post-Soviet.
A Progressive on the Prairie
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As that arch-modernist T. S. Eliot predicted, ‘This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.’
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We resist getting typecast either as conservationists or modernists.
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Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
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She was an artist ahead of her time, a modernist who used minimalism and anticipated the reductivism of the 1970s.
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How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
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While theoretical academics and self-conscious modernists shy away from the sentimental pitfalls of such subjects as love, sex and death, the country and western crooners would give the human tragi-comedy full unashamed voice.
This week's new exhibitions
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(In fact, some modernist critics would say that Evangelicals and other biblical literalists engage in "bibliolatry" or text worship.)
Valerie Tarico: Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions?
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Comprehensive modernists both, they explored art forms from film to opera.
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Wall is a tremendously challenging artist, as his stuff essentially mocks both the Cartier-Bresson 'Decisive Moment' as self-glorifying bushwa, and the Modernist painters' photography-induced flight from Realism as cowardice.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
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A modernist vacation cottage in the woods of Argentina uses an overlarge door to resist the sense of smallness and to add a feeling of luxury.
Living Within Less
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Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, brutalism and postmodernist junk.
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Large modernistic style murals on walls and arches dominate the interior décor.
Saints
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Like so many fashionably modernistic productions, this one comes across as gimmicky, born of a desire to shock in order to shake up conventional morality.
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From the caves of Lascaux to the clay or stone figures made by primitives and modernists, animal likenesses or essences have abounded in humankind's representational practices.
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These included many associated with the modernist avant-garde, who worked in a variety of media.
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This valuable volume confirms the dedicated assiduity with which Crawford Seeger channelled her ‘modernist’ instincts into the most refined kind of folk-song transcription she could manage.
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His symphonic scores revisited the motivic and symphonic aesthetic of the 19th century, a move regarded as retrogressive by modernist critics.
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It is long past time for us to give up our modernistic dichotomies that only harm us.
Should High School Girls Have To Take Gender Tests? - From Awearness
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Modernist architecture tries to conquer nature instead of working with it.
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People in this group tend to be highly culturally aware and sensitive to the discomforts of ‘post-modernists’.
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Some shred the beetroot, some julienne it, and some cube it, while modernists whiz it in a food processor.
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And ultimately, perhaps we may need to be even more careful about ever implying that it is on the basis of an association with the maternal realm that women writers belong in modernist or feminist literary canons.
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The letters span his college career, the early years in London, his development as a poet and a central figure in the new modernist movement, his meetings with numerous literary figures Yeats, Eliot, Ford, Lewis, his move to Paris in 1921 and on to Rapallo, a seaside resort town in northern Italy, in 1924.
Filial Piety Made New
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He might even start to look like a serial modernist, or a kind of expressionistic minimalist.
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The building's modernist beauty and grandness is a reflection of the adoration that Miró is held in by Barcelona.
New Europe: Juan Miró, a titan of art whose presence is still felt
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Husa's balance of austere folk-cultural strains with a modernist aesthetic -- clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violist Steve Tenenbom and cellist Marcy Rosen gave an authoritative performance -- was deeply influenced by Bartók.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing
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He said he also just wrote a 7,000-word essay for the journal Gastronomica explaining his use of the term "modernist.
Technology Genius Cooks Up Geoduck for 90
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Everyone suffers agonies of mortification that he'll seem a trailer-trash rube if he says out loud the plain truth that the modernist emperor has no clothes.
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Arrayed against them are postmodernists and leftists as well as populist nationalists who have revived Maoist ideas about people power.
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These are the lost poems of the lost modernist, David Jones, a man whose allusive obscurity won him fans like Eliot and Auden but robbed him of his place in college curricula.
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It is austerely modernist, making little concession to either plot or character, more like a fictive sculpture than a story, an obsessively repeated series of patterns.
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The name modernist then will be appropriate only when there is question of opposition to the certain teaching of ecclesiastical authority through a spirit of innovation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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They're eerily similar to American illos from the same era -- both empires believing that they were rocketing to a space-age, hypermodernist, Tomorrowland/Rollerball future.
Boing Boing
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Most renewables, say the ecomodernists, are a mistake because their footprint is too large.
Times, Sunday Times
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N&S critique the presumed attachment of environmentalists to romanticist premodernist images of society and celebrate economic modernization, along with the growing affluence, individualization, and freedom that this social process creates.
Joseph Romm: Memo to Media: Don't be Suckered by Bad Analyses from the Breakthrough Institute
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Robert Browning is credited as the "precursor of Modernist technique" for he "energetically hacked through a trail that has subsequently become the main road of twentieth century poetry".
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It bears all the hallmarks of a Post-Modernist interpretation of a historical facade, with architraves and lintels in cast aluminium.
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They glimpse a non-Modernist abstraction that is about addition and plenitude, not reduction.
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Here, his interests gravitated towards modernist painters such as Picasso and DeKooning.
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That show laid out the paradigmatic, innovative modernist journey from representation to abstraction.
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My conception of postmodernist de-differentiation via an aesthetics of desire was also in large part dependent on Lyotard's work.
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He then rejiggered it to echo both the museum's eccentric modernist window and his childhood bedroom.
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In its place, he has built a bigger, swankier - but, by local standards, positively restrained - ultra-modernist four- to five-bedroom villa.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, in a scavenging post-modernist climate, art history offers rich pickings.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his most influential was to transform the way people looked at jazz, to transform the genre into a true modern art with all the complexities that can be found in modernist theater and painting.
The Reinvention of Jazz
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Postmodernists, on the other hand, are more multivocal in their viewpoint, holding that the ownership of concepts and words is less important than their relevance to culture-making; in art, for example, postmodernists will "appropriate" from anywhere and everywhere, and by redefining the context of the works or snippets, create something new (Andy Warhol's soup cans, above: using "fine art" painting methods to appropriate canned soup).
Archive 2009-01-01
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But we live also in a post-modernist exile from meaning.
Times, Sunday Times
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These modernist Manhattanites are probably most closely associated with the neo-classical composer and his macro-minimalist mesmerism.
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In spite of postmodernism's loosening of the modernist canon, the stigma against classicism remains robust.
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One of Nietzsche's prime targets in this respect is Kant who, like a good modernist, attempted to give, as far as is possible, rational grounds for our ordinary beliefs and for morality.
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Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
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Tillich analyzes people"s ontological anxiety as well as its times" characteristics from the angle of Christian theology, and explores the nature and origin of modernists" existence dilemma.
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Religion in the former sense is a cement for communal harmony, and not otherwise as some modernists and secularists believe.
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This seems entirely fitting for a composer who has often been content to embrace classicist formal integration and resist modernist formal fragmentation.
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The third is the emergence of new attitudes, usually described as postmodernist, which challenge the Church's traditional ascription of authority to the Bible.
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Just wondering, though - you gave a bunch of texts using 'pataphysics' in some way, and then anticipated what I was thinking with the comment on pataphysics vs. postmodernism - what would you consider an explicitly postmodern text using pataphysics, as opposed to a modernist like Davenport?
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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Esko is less worldly than Eliel was, more driven and passionate; his architectural style is more modernistic, more like the other great Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto.
An Interview with Richard Rayner about Cloud Sketcher
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Now and then a few people, witting or unwitting postmodernists, who think that social constructs trump the laws of physics, are mowed down by logging trucks.
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However, with the development of modernistic common custom, one kind of the opposite interest gradually spread.
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And this is the postmodernist bit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet the museum is quite indulgent towards postmodernist artefacts, displaying them prominently and trumpeting their subversive qualities.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Populated with groovy ingenues, Rat Pack roués, cute animals, tiki gods and the occasional mythical creature, Shag's art, which also pops up on stationery and housewares, is an inventory of the furnishings in the 1960 Modernist ranch that Agle decorated for his wife, theater director Glendele Way-Agle and their two children.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
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These are also paradoxically anti-modernist moments, when a belief in literature's power of ethical persuasion asserts itself over market-based utility values.
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Modernist architecture tries to conquer nature instead of working with it.
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I'm not actually convinced tunes for those even exist — the Paris Breviary was a modernist "priest's prayerbook" kind of liturgy and I'm not positive that a supplemental antiphoner ever existed for the innovative stuff they threw in.
A couple of Office/chant books in English
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Except, perhaps, for the inclusion of the dance's peat-covered stage, strikingly filmed here as it's being put in place, there seems little about this Sturm und Drang battle of the sexes for barefoot women in thin slips and bare-chested, barefoot men in black slacks that trendy French modernist Maurice Béjart or any number of earnest modern-dance practitioners might not have done.
A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature
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Perhaps the strangest element of Auster’s reputation as an American postmodernist is that his language never registers this kind of absence at the level of the sentence.
2009 November 24 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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There is something thoroughly modernist about Burtynsky's work, the grand scale, the glorious detail, a kind of unwieldy whole.
Archive 2006-09-01
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Day's experiments with modernist movements such as Cubism and Futurism are also on display.
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Her luxurious screens, richly evocative objects in lacquer and striking modernist standalone pieces look as innovative today as they did during the 1920s and 1930s when her career was at its height.
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tables in modernistic designs
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Nonetheless, The Secular City was popular in modernist Christian circles, until they moved on to the next demi-prophet
The President’s Theologian
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There are no pretentious disquisitions on the supposed post-modernist significance of trashy TV game shows.
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My biographical dictionary describes Virginia Woolf as ‘the archetypal modernist‘.
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It would be hard to over-estimate the damage modernist catechetics has done to the Church, but too many Catholics under-estimate it all the time allowing it to go merrily on.
" Why the Crisis in the Church? "
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At the core a classicist, albeit with modernist leanings, he has not abandoned tradition but given the Toronto-based company a fresh image - youthful, creative and adventurous.
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Although the Parisian architect Jean-Paul Viguier designed the striking, cantilevered, bladelike, at once slick and luxurious structure, its unusual footprint and modernist look respond marvelously to its site and neighborhood, and Viguier's heroic efforts to "bring the sun into the project" show a sensitivity to both the city's climate and its architectural heritage, which virtually fetishizes openness and natural light.
The Not-So-Second City
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He is among those who contend classicalism is coming back in style in many American cities, pointing to Nashville, among other cities, where the new public library in downtown and its newest concert hall were built in a classical rather than modernist style.
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In 2004, a similar media storm was brewing around Randall Stevenson's volume in the Oxford English Literary History, which had favoured the abstruse poetry of JH Prynne – a modernist of a kind – over that of Philip Larkin.
What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici
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To such Germans, Jews seemed hyper-modernists, thriving on the forces that threatened the volk.
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O futuro, sonhei eu, era feito de arquitecura modernista enquadrada por carros voadores e aventuras no espaço sideral.
Vício
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Recognition of such a project in his later poetry should begin to unsettle long-standard accounts of how Brecht (or Benjamin, for that matter) alternately models an exchange-value Left cynicism, and a mechanical-reproductionist, exhibition-value "Avant-Gardist anti-aesthetic" (both of which, in solidarity with radically-intended post-Modernist art and theory, oppose themselves to a more auratic, Romantically-derived Modernism) .26
Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
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postmodernist architecture
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When modernists eventually revolted against academic history painting, they did not uniformly abandon this august dream.
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I didn't even know you could do that, but this is how postmodernist politics works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Signed Henri Matisse lithographs on the lounge wall reinforce the Modernist esthetic.
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Modernists, by definition, have a strong faith in the future.
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The paintings themselves depicted unpeopled rooms furnished in generic modernist decor.
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The much-vaunted Frankfurt preference for modernist artworks of great complexity is the preference for a Baudelairean art still intent on risking experimental enactments of romantic aura together with mimetic reflections on postromantic modernity’s most anti-auratic, advanced technical-productive developments.
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
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Externally, it mixed a boxy Modernist-style shape with more traditional detailings such as inauthentic Georgian-style 'sash' windows.
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Instead the papers are permeated with a modernistic and very individualistic notion of gender.
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Oh but, the author suggested, we're all postmodernist now, aren't we?
The Times Literary Supplement
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To this end, she mines the unlikely genre of amateur portraiture, not the legacy of the modernist avant-garde, creating idiosyncratic works, as alluring as they are critical.
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It is long past time for us to give up our modernistic dichotomies that only harm us.
Should High School Girls Have To Take Gender Tests? - From Awearness
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Even more than with such earlier modernists as Brancusi and Henry Moore, with Mr. Kelly, "wood" and "sculpture" are mesmerizingly coequal.
Beautiful, Quiet and Spare
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In contrast to many postmodernists, who engage in easy forms of parody when addressing the high-flown art of the past, Schütte has actually had the courage to work from inside the tradition - and risk the comparisons.
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But Romantics, and modernists after them, needed to believe that genius in its own time is always neglected, misunderstood, etc.
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She is emphatically not a modernist or postmodernist author.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rather, it is a refreshing example of contemporary modernist park design.
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I believe (and have believed from the beginning of the affair) that the "clerical sexual abuse" scandal is a gigantic red herring ginned up by an unholy alliance of anticlericals, homosexual activists (tu quoque, perhaps!?), Modernist "Catholics" and media voyeurs.
What planet...?
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Like many a postmodernist, he suspects that conviction itself is potentially authoritarian, his own convictions naturally excepted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Hi - tech materials set the pace for this rugged range - modernist gear that will go the distance.
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The coach was a kind of commodious wagonette, invented by the modernist talent of the courier, who dominated the expedition with his scientific activity and breezy wit.
The Complete Father Brown
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This now sounds embarrassingly quaint, but many modernists have sought such authority from museums.
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But an alternate view has always been present within experimental modernism and its aftermaths, a view that difficulty and complexity are actually the raisons d’être of romantic lyric, and that the real complexities of romantic lyric explicitly or by default underwrite modernist experimentation (an experimentation that in its turn honors romanticism’s unprecedented insurgencies precisely by avoiding the temptations of an easy, conventional neoromanticism).
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
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During the same period he also taught apologetics, church history, and patristics in the Bergamo seminary and had to survive a brief and unjust accusation of sympathy with Modernists.
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He entered the airy, modernistic conference room with relief.
THE SCAR
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Postmodernists claim that science, no less than religion and literature and philosophy, is infiltrated with culture.
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The result is an Afro-Brazilian subject overlaid with a European modernist style.
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Father and Son, as a prelude of the English new biography, has ushered in the wave of patricide into modernist literature.
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He studied authors from the past along with modernists like Joyce, Eliot, and Pound, remarking how increased literacy altered oral cultures like Homeric Greece.
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If the modernist box remains the default form, unsurpassable for its elegance and adaptability, it has also been the spur to some amazingly bold escapes from that orthodoxy.
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High modernist author Georges Perec, for instance, comically suggested that there are exactly 243 writerly possibilities for the postcard message.
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In the twentieth century, some modernist Roman Catholic theologians sought to interpret transubstantiation as only a change of meaning and not a change of substance.
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The design of the new library has been acclaimed by Modernists.
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These insets form rhombuses so that the overall compositions recall constructivism, the modernist style rejected by the Soviet state.
Evening Standard - Home
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Postmodernists prefer local traditions which are not entirely led by rational and instrumental criteria, but make room for the sacred and even the irrational.
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In an appropriately modernist account, the witnesses claimed that it was clearly propelled by some kind of European technology.
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Thus, any music that doesn't manifest a recognizable emotion (by implication at least, all of "dissonant" modernist music) couldn't be music.
Music
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Many people seem to think that this search effectively ended in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, when novelists discovered realism, enhanced by modernist experiments in "psychological realism," and thus added these approaches to the earlier emphasis on storytelling, but I think that such an arbitrary circumscription of the novel's further development is effectively a renunciation of the form's own history as an "exploratory" practice.
Experimental Fiction
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The post-modernist movement challenged the Modernist notion of the avant-garde.
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The kinds of literary work that have been described as postmodernist include the Theatre of the Absurd and some experimental poetry.
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But while all avant-gardists are modernists, not all modernists are avant-gardists.
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Designed to frustrate readers and bedevil critics, this "underbook" is Oates 'riff on post-modernist self referential, inter-texual writing about writing.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet
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But they're very masculinist, they're very blokey, they do appeal to a certain kind of image of modernist, alpha male sort of image.
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In Levin's essay, avant-garde cinema is assimilated into the wider discourse of Modernist art despite their material and institutional differences.
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Shinn was something of an anachronism even in his own time — Universalist leaders were increasingly urban and modernist, while Shinn was dedicated to rural people and biblicism — and it may not be easy for many UUs to recognize their relationship to him.
Philocrites: October 2007 Archives
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Because postmodernism is associated with a suspicion of meta-narratives, intellectual tendencies such as post-structuralism, relativism and pragmatism have been labeled postmodernist.
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Les Murray is a famous Australian modernistic poet.
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This sort of history teaching has long been out of fashion among our post-modernist educational establishment.
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That's a fantastic micro-dispute to consider, since Eisler, far from undertaking a wholesale genre-stripping or programmatic levelling of still-too-high and auratic elegiac verse, instead so virtuosically runs Schubertian and Schumannesque lieder, French chanson, and Schönbergian twelve-tone composition in and out of one another, that it is hard to miss the settings 'recognizably Modernist tour de force of newly-achieved form and voice.
Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
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Ostensibly modernist abstractions, they consist of optically charged rectilinear patterns of internally opposed two-color and three-color systems.
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The hotel is fairly recent but its architecture and furniture continue the Modernist manner with great aplomb.
Times, Sunday Times
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Born Ida Karamian in 1908 to Armenian parents in Russia, she served her apprenticeship and found both friends and a metier in modernist Paris in the late 1920s.
Portraits of the artists
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This tides once contribute to postmodernist controversy on philosophy, aesthesis, sociology, literature and pedagogy.
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Unlike the Barcelona Pavilion, with its directional Modernist space and unaligned column and paving grids, at the Farnsworth House the column centers align with the grid of the travertine floor, classicizing the design.
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Italian architectural historian Bruno Zevi famously decried the depersonalizing effect of the city's broad avenues and cold modernist styling.
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COPENHAGEN—Modernist design was born in the chaotic center of 20th-century Europe, in the cultural hothouses of Weimar-era Germany and entre-deux-guerres Paris, but it came of age in the provincial calm of post-World War II Denmark.
Danish Design's Homely Attraction
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Moreover Drummond isn't your average Colonel Blimp reactionary; yes, he deplores the fixation with populist culture but he is essentially a modernist at heart.
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The very radical autonomy of modernist cultural forms makes their social or social-historical explanation an extremely difficult pursuit.
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That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists.
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The approach may remind viewers of the Ben-Day dot compositions of Sigmar Polke and Roy Lichtenstein, but it is not Xie's intention to make a similar Post-Modernist commentary on mass media.
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Despite his early assimilation of modernist methods, he has long been underappreciated.
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Much of the political art of the modernist period, and certainly that produced by totalitarian regimes, had been boringly realist and only too obviously subordinated to totalizing ideologies.
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Prince Charles condemned the assertively modernist style of architecture.
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The image becomes abstract, but is evocative of specific styles of modernist painting.
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The modernist belief that modern art should repudiate the past has been jettisoned.
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Matthew Carbone for the Wall Street Journal Designed by Cincinnati modernist architect Carl Strauss, their split-level, 3,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, four-bath house is divided into two rectangular sections entered by a trellis walkway covered with wisteria blossoms.
Cincinnati Modern
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The Brasserie was of particular interest because of the perversity of its location: in the windowless basement of the premier glass-and-steel building of the modernist era.
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Anyway we have poor people in the countries which are victims of modernist catechetics who do not want to be Catholics let alone priests.
" Why the Crisis in the Church? "
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In all the areas we have looked at, there are very vigorous alternative intellectual traditions outside those promoted by postmodernists.
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The irony is that decades after his death the political vacuum is being filled by the Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood—whose theocratic, antimodernist ideas Nasser had tried to repress.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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Across the many branches of science, some theories are so well researched and documented that only fundamentalist chuckleheads, and tenure-bloated, postmodernist, gasbags fuss over them.
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Her intellectually provocative essay on the songs is touched by fashionable postmodernist ideas.
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Whether that crowd consists of Elizabethan tradesmen or Harvard postmodernists, Shakespeare entertains his audiences while challenging them to think.
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Everything from sleek modernist furniture to Imperial Russian treasures will be on display.
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Largely by sheer force of will, Strindberg transformed this unlovely hole into a vibrant modernist paradise, employing the then-obscure likes of Wyndham Lewis, Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein to achieve her novel visions.
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Similarly, the contemporary detective novels of interest to us here are postmodern without being postmodernist.
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The production is propelled by the spirit of parody and irony, self-referential allusion, iconoclasm, the postmodernist and post-dramatic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Book Development" is like when you have the Magical Conversation with your Potential Agent, and the Agent asks you where you see your Revisions headed, and you are all like, "I really envision this novel as a sort of homage to Anna Karenina, with certain postmodernist elements, and of course the meta-narrative which references freely both The Society of the Spectacle and Ulysses," and your Potential Agent is all like, "Yeah, totally!
Archive 2009-09-01
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It's the dark shadow of the fascism of modernist brutalism, the truth incarnate that every Utopia is unachievable.
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They are the much-misunderstood gurus of postmodernists.
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But even in death the mangroves are unusual, becoming gnarly bits of modernistic art few sculptors call match.
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These oils on canvas rework that fulcrum of modernist painting, the grid.
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Architectural preservationists, many of whom spent the '60s trying to prevent modernist projects from destroying the city's Victorian fabric, aren't always sympathetic.
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On this tasting, though, I feel that the modernists with their technology have gone a bit too far in their aim of pleasing the consumer.
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Modernist's style to choose self modern curtain commercial firm, giving your accommodatingto is best.
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But all this is ignored, because, in order to flatten out Potter's work into biographic expressivism, his modernist/formalist innovations have to be downplayed.
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Here area graffitist Gaia a Maryland Institute College of Art student transformed the building's face with a two-story portrait of modernist architect Le Corbusier.
Demonstrators gather to protest removal of Wojnarowicz art from NPG
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Forget the part about comparing post-modernists in academia to Jews under Nazi rule or closet homosexuals, the idea that Ophelia Benson was actually blaming him for the death of ‘potentilla’ shows a remarkable willingness to make himself the victim.
Steve Fuller shows us what he's made of - The Panda's Thumb
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The galleries devoted to the white monochromes of Robert Ryman allow us to see, as in a private laboratory made public, his deconstructive exploration of Modernist abstraction in process.
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Despite this anti-modernist sentimentality, from the 1930s to the 1950s Jaques's enormous popularity could not be wholly ignored by highbrow tastemakers.
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According to this postmodernist interpretation, the principle of reason is not bankrupt.
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Dying is a book that really does deserve that loose label 'postmodernist'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Here, a small tribute group will wind its way through Scott's snaky multidecade back catalog, performing modernistic interpretations of his best-known works.
Sonic Experiments And a Country Tonic
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This man, little known in Australia, introduced the modernist aesthetic challenge into art education here.
Bauhaus in Australia: Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
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It's one of those twee, child-centric works that sift through the last shakings of the postmodernist bag for ways to enliven their inch-deep whimsy and fathomless solipsism – crapulous, cod-Vonnegut cutesiness being Foer's weakness – and often presume an intimacy with grave and terrible events, the better to drape themselves in the mantle of importance.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness
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In contrast to modernists and traditionalists, some young designers take modernist principles as only a starting point for their ideas.
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Düsseldorf school of photograph's codes and photographers such as Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth, while pushing them to their ultimate stage: monumentality, frontality, absence of narration and time reference - ie impossibility to identify the season of the year or the time of the day; but instead of picturing an arrogant modernist building, only remains a pyramid of ruins.
We make money not art
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Modernists are theologically more individualistic than the religiously orthodox in that they see individuals, not a deity, as responsible for their fates and as the ultimate moral arbiters.
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The document is an extant work of that most postmodernist of enterprises, the law.
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Imagine you're the daughter of a modernist painter and writer, and the half-sister of an established music star.
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Although not agreeing with my modernist convictions he stood by me, nobly true to friendship.
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The mixture of classical modernism with traditionalist references was thick, and it seemed undeniable that many of the works were deliberate remakes of recognizable Western modernist icons.
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And, as with Thomas Nozkowski's deft, eccentric revivifications of modernist composition, Root's paintings are, in regard to their progenitors, simultaneously affectionate and irreverent.
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At Passover seders, traditionalists who favor sweet kosher wine and modernists who prefer dryness can share this 2006 late-harvest chenin blanc.
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Glasgow 1938 is a visual resource of the city's Empire Exhibition, a modernist / deco delight that teetered on the brink of a new era and consequently vanished without undue influence.
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Its streamlined modernist line in sheer cliff faces and sleek curvilinear walls was celebrated by leading architects of the day and was a perfect ingredient in Art Deco style.
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With his experimental "metafiction" - spoofing literary conventions, leaving sentences dangling, writing an entire novel ( "Gold Fools") in the form of questions - he seemed to place himself squarely in the postmodernist camp; but his ear for American, especially New York, speech, and his attention to the spirit of place and compassion for the average loser, all defined him as a kindred spirit of such great American humorists as Mark Twain and Peter De Vries.
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The image becomes abstract, but is evocative of specific styles of modernist painting.
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His paintings point the way toward modernist work on signs in Cubism, Futurism, collage, and Dada, and they reveal the logic of the wariness about the relation of picture and world that is a hallmark of modernism.
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References to Marcel Duchamp, Frederick Nietzche and the Italian Futurists are all woven into Hitlers' artistic ethos, even though he claims to be an anti-modernist.
