Word: modernist
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...have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels may be in the canon of modernist fiction, what really makes her writing live today-and what largely accounts for the current Virginia Woolf boom in publishing-is the vividness of personality in her nonfiction. When her letters and memoirs are added to the complete diaries (three volumes published, with two to go), we may, as Editor Nigel Nicolson...
DIED. Sheldon Warren Cheney, 94, art historian and theater critic who helped define the modernist movement in American drama in the 1920s and '30s that was exemplified by such figures as Playwright Eugene O'Neill and Designer Robert Edmond Jones; of a stroke, in Berkeley, Calif. He founded Theatre Arts magazine in 1916 (it discontinued publication in 1964). His books include The New Movement in the Theater (1914), Expressionism in Art (1934) and The Story of Modern...
...announcing the award, worth $212,000, the Swedish Academy cited Milosz's "uncompromising clear-sightedness" in a world thick with moral and intellectual conflicts. This is the familiar yet urgent condition of the modernist tradition into which Milosz was thrust by history. As he wrote in Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait (1945): "Keeping one hand on Marx's writings, he reads the Bible in private./ His mocking eye on processions leaving burnt-out churches./ His backdrop: a horseflesh-colored city in ruins...
...painting, sculpture, design, film. By 1950, the destruction was done. To this day the most brilliant moment of revolutionary aspiration in the history of Russian art remains not only unofficial but actively repressed within the borders of its own country. Last year the U.S.S.R. sent a mammoth consignment of modernist Russian art to the Pompidou Center's exhibition, "Paris-Moscow, 1900-1930"- while at the same time ensuring, by the threat of cancellation, that no proper discussion of the relations between art and politics in postrevolutionary Russia could be raised in the catalogue. (Needless to say, the show could...
Most unofficial Soviet art is earnestly provincial, dotted with quotations from Western modernist styles -abstract expressionism, Pop, minimalism-which cannot be assimilated properly because of the scarcity of information: one copy of a Western art magazine affects painters more, in this samizdat atmosphere, than do five museum shows in Manhattan. But the surprise is that such art exists at all. The dissident artist must expend so much energy on survival that he has less left for self-development. There is still no room for him in a society whose art has one purpose: to reinforce the narcissism of state power...