Word: modernist
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There are translation jokes: Keats' "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" goes through a Russian sieve and becomes "A pretty bauble always gladdens us." There is a half-hearted sort of dabbling with modernist experimentation: Vadim suspects that he is subject to the whims of a higher authorial power, and is bothered...
...moving in the second, and produced the kind of appealing characters, sharp dialogue and thought-provoking positions on life and art that we know he is capable of from his earlier plays. As it is, Travesties stands about the lowest on any scale of dramatic values, whether conventional, modernist, dadaist or socialist-realist--botched intellectual sensationalism...
Ironically, to Burgess, who carries high the torch of fiction's modernist tradition, the future of literary studies and serious reading looks bleak. "Nobody reads in the past any more," he grieves. "You can major in literature in America beginning with Hermann Hesse." (Burgess should know. He has spent most of the past five years teaching at Princeton and the City College of New York, though he now intends to devote himself full time to writing.) The author's exuberant pessimism extends to the course of democratic government, especially in his native England. His solution is for England...
...kind of imperious discourse about modernism that is now being written mainly by Critic Clement Greenberg's various followers. A fine recent example is the catalogue to the exhibition staged by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and tendentiously titled The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art 1960 to 1970. With preposterous promotional excess, the catalogue informs readers that what artists like Olitski, Noland, Louis and Friedel Dzubas produced in America in the 1960s can be compared in quality with the work of the impressionists between 1865 and 1875, and Braque, Picasso and Matisse between...
...products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with an unprejudiced eye, the snap and sparkle of the piecework Cactus Rose-pattern quilt of 1875 can reduce a lot of modernist abstraction to visual mush...