Word: modernisme
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WYNTON MARSALIS: SOUL GESTURES IN SOUTHERN BLUE (Columbia). This three-CD series, recorded in 1987 and 1988, is an ambitious exploration of the most basic jazz idiom: the blues. The 18 sides mark Marsalis' transition from aggressive post-'60s modernism to a more sensual, lyrical style that draws on the...
In Penn's world, reputation counts for more than celebrity, and fame is no laughing matter. Posed against bare backgrounds and pressed by mortal shadows, his stalwart artists and writers are icons of modernism at its most brave, clean and reverent. Their solemnity may be a pose in itself, but...
"He is very much interested in the tradition of modernism and is skeptical of post-modernism and commercialization of and by artists," says Nancy J. Troy, chair of the art history department at Northwestern University. "He believes in an active, creative tradition."
This fall, Harper will teach a junior tutorial in Afro-Am as well as English course on Anglo-American modernism from 1890 to 1930. Next semester he will teach an Afro-Am course on the literature of the 1920's and English 90vt, "Social Marginality and Postmodern Culture," a subject...
This fall, Harper will teach a junior tutorial in Afro-Am as well as an English course on Anglo-American modernism from 1890 to 1930. Next semester he will teach an Afro-Am course on the literature of the 1920's and English 90vt, "Social Marginality and Postmodern Culture," a...