Word: modernistically
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...formed a group, which performed in New York. The masterpieces began to flow, as they would over several decades. There was a cluster of distinctively American works, such as Letter to the World, about Emily Dickinson, and the ever vernal Appalachian Spring. Though a quintessential modernist, she was attracted to doomed classical heroines: Clytemnestra, Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra...
...20th century works will also help flesh out the Met's skeletal early- Modernist collection. The Annenberg paintings include a very fine Georges Braque studio interior from 1939, and At the Lapin Agile, Picasso's self- portrait as Harlequin at the bar of a Montmartre dive. This souvenir of lost bohemia cost Annenberg $40.7 million at auction...
...seen by the staggering total of nearly 3 million people, a larger box office than any art exhibition before or since. (By comparison, the Museum of Modern Art's Picasso retrospective drew 1.1 million four decades later.) It contained some 650 paintings, sculptures and prints by just about every Modernist artist of consequence in Germany and Austria; it was a huge, random anthology of the achievements of German Expressionism. Everything came from German museums, since the idea was to show how the official public culture of Germany had been infiltrated by Modernism. At the end of the show, whatever seemed...
...although "Entartete Kunst" is still an archsymbol of cultural repression, it remains vague in detail. The catalog was a mere brochure, and only a few photos of the actual installation seem to have survived. What, exactly, was in the show? Below the obvious surface of anti-Semitic and anti- Modernist stereotypes, what did it actually represent? How did it fit into the larger programs of Nazism, and why was it so popular...
...time, The Conscience of the Eye does not just invite rereading--it demands it. The book is difficult without ever being jargony or abstruse; like his ideas, Sennett's prose is densely packed and complicated. In his aesthetics as well as his social philosophy, he is heavily influenced by modernist and existentialist demands for involvedness and interaction. In fact, Sennett's language creates for the reader exactly the kind of environment that he hopes our cities will one day embody. It is a landscape of the unexpected, of twists and turns and delightful discoveries. Familiar monuments spring to life, like...