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Philip J. Fisher’s class on Aestheticism and Modernism??and reading period—have taught me the importance of a sense of playfulness. I’ve learned that there are two approaches to a T minus 24-hours sense of panic: partaking in a dining hall arms race (“Only two papers? Try three.”) and snapping at strangers, or slowing down, taking my computer to Café Algiers, and appreciating January’s new fallen snow...
...breathe loudly, people who rush me when I’m walking slowly, people who walk slowly in front of me when I’m in a rush, and people who have ever used the words “Nietzsche” or “post-modernism?? in regular conversation. Both small children and old people make me very uncomfortable. And for the life of me, I cannot understand the fascination that so many of my friends have with that live video of little puppies.In short, I am the anti-Disney.So when somebody played...
...wake of post-modern academic approaches, or an effort to fulfill the Wikipedian dream of connecting all knowledge, however tenuously. Maybe it’s all a futile effort to fulfill the promise of the exhilarating subtitle—“In the Maelstrom of American Modernism??—in a biography of a man who died in 1910, well before what we call “modernism?? was much more than a premonition. This bold statement about James’ place in the history of ideas is not only a fairly obvious publisher?...
...Klee experimented with abstract watercolor composition, American artists were “rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth and John Marin—all early experimenters with realism, abstraction and modernism??took on the yoke previously worn by Sargent and Homer...
Core Curriculum, use those modes of inquiry of yours to look at the opus that brought your predecessor into being. Your progenitor, Core, is caricatured as archaic and uncouth, but the issues we grapple with today—internationalism, ethnocentrism, post-modernism??are all addressed in The Red Book with surprising comprehension, even if unfashionable “ism”-less terms are used...