Word: modernist
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...CHURCH. "The only hope of America is the fundamentalist church, where the people teach the word of God and not the word of man. Some churches I can't get into-some of these modernist churches. They're trying to get God to adjust to man rather than man to adjust...
...Durhams have never had any money and have made no plans to spend their windfall. They are classic American doers. Kilburn Durham's vaguely modernist paintings are exhibited in an Evansville restaurant. For years the couple were members of a Mortimer Adler Great Books Club, but their group outlived the eleven-year club syllabus...
...exhibit the fact that technology is not for learning lessons but is to be experienced." R.B. Kitaj offered the perverse idea of employing the facilities of Lockheed to produce a historical meditation on the 19th century Industrial Revolution, the aim being to examine the first era in which "a modernist presence has taken shape." Kitaj's room is a bizarre assemblage of model lighthouses, smokestacks, machined bas-reliefs of railway trucks, photographs of "The Father of Aviation" together with "The Mother and Daughter of Aviation." There is even a 6-ft. diorama of a mine tunnel with a mouth...
...visual expression reveals an anarchic temperament (to be distinguished from an anarchist politics ). Petri shifts rapidly between shots of rich chaos and those of extremely centralist organization, both invested with a dazzling immediacy. On the one hand he presents vast spatial compositions of dramatic confusion-interrogation theatres, modernist offices often shot through glass. Venetian blinds, bars, iron grates, cocktail glasses-creating an atmosphere of energetic but menaced licentiousness. On the other hand he devastates his defenseless audience with huge, authoritarian close-ups and compositions organized metonymically, transforming objects, into fetishes, frozen fascinations that dominate the image...
...Sokolow's work, Steps of Silence -a poignant conflict of men-is as powerful as Munch's gnarled Bruke Cry. A powerful piece, a powerful performance: where the Repertory Dance Theatre has begun with the strong curves of the Baroque, they have ended with the social comment of the modernist...