Word: modern
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...chapter entitled, "Order, Hierarchy and Culture," Levine argues that the ideas of "high-brow" and "low-brow" came out of a complicated mesh of modern changes: immigration, and the culturally isolated communities of the "hyphenated-Americans"; the rise of a corporate culture, which linked art appreciation to social status; and changing attitudes toward etiquette and art, which severely restricted the behavior of the audience in "high" artistic shows, and insisted that Shakespeare could share the stage with no other production...
After lotteries next week, less than half of those who wish to enroll in Literature and Arts B-71, "Jazz: An American Music," and Literature and Arts B-16, "Modern Art and Abstraction," will be able to do so, said Susan W. Lewis, the director of the Core Curriculum...
Andrej Smrekar, head teaching fellow for "Modern Art and Abstraction"--better known as "Spots and Dots"--said only 280 of the approximately 700 students who came to the first meeting Thursday will be allowed to enter...
According to Smrekar, every year Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Anna C. Chave has taught "Modern Art and Abstraction," it has held an enrollment lottery. And Lewis said, "As long as there's been a course in Expressionism or Impressionism, it's been oversubscribed...
...once, students rose in protest and revolt. Red and black flags, mycelia of defiance, sprouted overnight. France ground to a standstill. Charles de Gaulle tottered. Lyndon Johnson left politics. To revolution's fervid practitioners, it was 1848 and the 1871 Paris Commune rolled into one, then mixed with modern hedonism. THE MORE I MAKE REVOLUTION, THE MORE I WANT TO MAKE LOVE! proclaimed a slogan on a Sorbonne wall...