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...associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the early '80s, Howard Davies earned his stripes by staging such Bard classics as Macbeth and Troilus and Cressida, along with occasional modernist ventures like Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Good. But whenever he suggested doing the work of American playwrights like Tennessee Williams, he was out of luck. "Nobody wanted to revive them," says Davies. "I was banging on doors, and no one was interested...
This was chapter and verse for Picabia too, whose work also caused some scandal at the Armory Show. Picabia returned to New York in 1915, prophesying that the city would soon become the center of modernist effort because its reality had made it the modernist site to beat all others. "Your New York," he told the press, "is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses modern thinking in its architecture, its life, its spirit"--everything but its art, which Dada would supply. This image of the city as social compressor also comes out in Man Ray's neatly epigrammatic...
There wasn't much social criticism in New York Dada, though some of its members were clearly ticked off by the conservative character of the American art world. Picabia even satirized Alfred Stieglitz--whose 291 gallery was the main rallying point for modernist artists like Constantin Brancusi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley--as an impotent figure, a camera with a collapsed bellows. Dove himself had a prod at the reviewing establishment in The Critic, 1925--a figure meant to represent Royal Cortissoz, the much feared conservative who had dubbed modernism "Ellis Island art." It is a paper...
...When he's with Sue, his gaze speaks love so loudly she might have to cover her ears. Winslet is worthy of his and the camera's scrupulous adoration. Her teasing sneer of a smile makes her a very contemporary presence. So she's perfect for Sue, a modernist ahead of her time. Take Gwyneth Paltrow's elegance, mix in Drew Barrymore's naughty wiles, and you have a hint of Winslet. She is a star of her time. And Jude is a handsome showcase for her gifts...
That said, I am convinced the Virginia Woolf, one of the greatest modernist novelists and feminist writers, will go down in history not for her perfectly shaped sentences but for her understanding of the subtleties of sauce and gravy...