Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nellie Y. McKay, author of a well-regarded study of 20th-century writer Jean Tooter, recently decided against accepting the Harvard tenure offer--made last fall--and will continue teaching at Wisconsin, according to officials from both schools...
...possibly his final year at Harvard, Nobel laureate and Lawrence Professor of Chemistry William N. Lipscomb Jr. is teaching Science A-25 "Chemistry of the 20th Century," but only for three students...
Cubism is the archetype of 20th century cultural movements. Indeed, it is the reason so many people have come to think of modern art as a sequence of movements, group activities. Neither Pablo Picasso nor Georges Braque could have created it on his own: it was a truly cooperative process in which Picasso (for a short time) was relieved of the psychic burden of egoistic creation -- the loneliness of the virtuoso -- and the more cautious and measured Braque was spurred into radical experiment. It marks, more clearly than any other, the point at which modern art broke away from commonsense...
...American museum industry has long argued that practically all later styles of 20th century painting and sculpture can be defined through either their origins in Cubism or their opposition to it. Abstract art comes out of the virtual disappearance of the recognizable nude or still life from Braque's and Picasso's work in the autumn of 1911. Pop art is born in the letters, headlines and brand names they stenciled and glued onto their surfaces. Constructivist sculpture descends from Braque's paper constructions and Picasso's tin guitar. Abstract Expressionism gets its originality from its struggle to "escape...
...them at a time can make visual sense. You still cannot walk into the Cubist room. But that is partly -- or so the paintings quietly argue -- because you are already in it. It is the space of relativity, the benign and long-lost mental space of the early 20th century, when newness still seemed paradisiacal...