Word: modernisme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within the century's first two decades, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky and James Joyce--the advance squadron of modernism--created works that broke dramatically with the past, tearing apart traditional artistic structures and reassembling them in startling new ways. The convulsion of World War I only reinforced the modernists' conviction...
And what about the heirs of Joyce and Stravinsky? Still doing brilliant work from time to time, to be sure. But broadly speaking, the energies of high modernism had played themselves out, and the ironic, self-conscious borrowings of postmodernism did not advance the cause much. Literature, the theater, classical...
Picasso was regarded as a boy genius, but if he had died before 1906, his 25th year, his mark on 20th century art would have been slight. The so-called Blue and Rose periods, with their wistful etiolated figures of beggars and circus folk, are not, despite their great popularity...
To make art was to achieve a tyrannous freedom from self-explanation. The artist's work was mediumistic ("Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do what it wants"), solipsistic even. To Picasso, the idea that painting did itself through him meant that it wasn't subject to cultural...
Yet this questioning is not quite the same as doubting the value of the University itself. For example, in calling for more racial and ethnic studies courses in the curriculum, we are not so much challenging the validity of the curriculum itself but rather asking Harvard to live up to...