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Evans truly deserves the title of the world's first modernist photographer. That is, he was the first photographer to break away from the impressionistic, pictorial vision of his predecessor, Alfred Stieglitz. While Stieglitz captured the more romantic-- misty weather scenes and soft focus portraits-- with an emphasis on mood, Evans tried to focus on a clarity and cleansing of the photographic medium, engaging in a kind of anti-art campaign. He labeled Stieglitz's art as "veritably screaming aestheticism." His photographs are straightforward views of everyday people in ordinary settings and the objects of their contemporary living...
...were the modern designs to rival the dominant idioms of 18th century Georgian and 19th century Beaux-Arts by the Potomac? There was not much to see. The preferred manner, in a low-horizon city dominated by L'Enfant's neoclassical plan, was Beaux-Arts thinly covered with a "modernist" veneer: the cake minus the icing. From the postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the past 30 years of Washington architecture have been a prolonged failure of the bureaucratic imagination. There have been one or two notable...
...writer was Pablo Picasso. If his sentiment seems odd (for someone who was to spend most of his life in France), we must blame the predominantly Francophile readings of art history for that. The real map of modernist culture in early 20th century Europe was not that of a capital surrounded by aesthetic provinces. It was more like a confederation: a scatter of nodes and local centers, engaged with one another and enjoying a persistent osmosis of ideas across the frontiers-Moscow, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich. Weimar, Barcelona, Vienna. Paris was uniquely hospitable to the avantgarde. But it had no monopoly...
...which finishes its run at the Brooklyn Museum this week and will open on April 15 at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Mass., is an exhilarating show. Davis died 14 years ago, but he is still a quintessentially American artist-the hero of the struggle to be both modernist and American that pervaded the art world in the '20s and '30s. No exhibition of his work has ever done as well by him as this one, organized by Art Historian John R. Lane: 113 paintings and drawings, an excellent catalogue text and, for the first time...
Each issue will focus on a single architectural theme. The first issue, called "Beyond the Modern Movement," will contain articles, interviews, photo essays and book reviews dealing with the post-modernist movement in architecture...