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Testa, 52, is a modernist and a traditionalist. His Milan ad agency has just completed a yearlong study of consumer reaction to interactive TV ads, and he believes that "the Web is the future" for his industry. Testa, who took the reins after the death of his father and company namesake, has made the Armando Testa Agency Europe's largest independent ad firm by doubling revenues. He continues to fend off buyout offers, convinced that independence breeds creativity. "Once you're listed on the stock exchange, you have to play according to different rules," he says. --By Jeff Israely...
This is literature in mid-transformation, the modernist bleeding into the postmodern and beyond. In his introduction to Astonishing Stories, Chabon calls this new high-low fiction "Trickster literature," and you can almost hear in that label the distant bugle call of a manifesto. And you can almost see the future of literature coming. Looks like it's going to be a page turner...
...with expression and progress. According to Prina (and he is certainly not alone in this opinion) the narrative of historical progress in art—which has been with us in one form or another at least since the Renaissance and which formed the backbone of the modernist movement—has been so thoroughly debunked by post-modern theory that it is simply no longer possible to talk about art developing in any logical way or progressing toward any general goal. But that’s not all. At the same time that he thus denies art a general...
...From a great work of modernist fiction: once upon a time and a very good time it was he was reading this magazine a student magazine he didn’t understand were they trying to be humorous he didn’t like humor it wasn’t introspective enough his father’s voice told him that he remembered he remembered...
Coupled with the hand-crafted marionettes, the blobular form is a poignant analogue to Corbusier’s earlier fusion of organic forms and Modernist rigor in the Carpenter Center’s design—the result of the University’s mid-century hope that an increased presence of the arts would counter the increasingly mechanistic tenor of society...