Word: modernistically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tale of cultural colonization must be), and unquestionably central to the history of modern art. Until now, no museum has attempted to document it with one mammoth show, and in fact the Pompidou Center is the only institution in France with enough funds to try. Being the modernist showcase of Paris, it is very much a part of the dialectic it now seeks to clarify...
...Loose. Ferrer's imagery has always been audacious and aggressive; its colors are about as subtle as the parlor of a San Juan cathouse. But its ambition is unshakable, even obsessive: to render an account of exotic travel as refracted through a Puerto Rican background and an ironic, modernist education. As his best exegete, Art Critic Carter Ratcliff, points out, "It is as a practitioner of a dramatic, restless, 'tropical' version of the sublime that Ferrer can best be understood." The work is hot salsa too, theatrical and loose. In his way, Rafi-as his buddies call...
...Herding Sheep" for example, horses are reduced to their essential linguistic components: 4 legs and a mane. "Horse Ranch" goes a step further, making poetry into music in a most modernist fashion. Thework reads like a musical score, it orchestrates jotted notes of legs-and-manes moving or standing tense...
...latter-day Mad Hatter. From both husband and lover, Joan cleverly hides two secret shames: the fact that she produces feverishly romantic gothic novels and her pre-diet-pill memories of a miserably obese childhood. Both are telltale signs of a temperament too florid to suit the doctrinaire, modernist tastes of the men now in her life. One day, seized by a fit of automatic writing while staring at herself in a three-way mirror, she turns out a surreal prose poem called Lady Oracle that becomes a bestseller. Sudden celebrity as the author of Lady Oracle -which publishers promote...
Boggs, a specialist on 19th and 20th century European and American art, will join the Faculty as professor of Fine Arts this summer. She will be the department's only modernist and its second tenured woman...