Word: neomodernist
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...awkward blend of the modern and the classical imbued the piece with a neomodernist ethos that instigated the tone for the entire program...
...True History of the Kelly Gang with its deliberate misspellings and solecisms, Carey sets stylistic obstacles in the reader's way in his new novel. He abjures the use of quotation marks for dialogue, which gives his pages a stylish, neomodernist look, but as the narrative structure grows more convoluted, the reader is often left wondering whether a line is dialogue or the narrator's commentary. Given Carey's many allusions to T.S. Eliot, this complexity might be intended to suggest the elusiveness of certain knowledge about human identity?or it might be merely pretentious. And his attempts to give...
...most literally classical of the lot, although its instant statuary (stucco-sprayed mannequins) does madcap violence to any deeper notion of classicism. Graves' handsome copper-roofed arch is better behaved and more civic than the rest; it wants to be a real building. As for Pelli, the neomodernist turns out to be a cryptoprimitivist. His open-faced sandwich of long two-by-fours forms a kind of aboriginal latticework gate and seems Southwestern in the best sense: simple, staunch, serene...
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