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SNOW WHITE MARTHA GRAHAM LOUIS ARMSTRONG MILES DAVIS SEAGRAM BUILDING GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO THE GREAT GATSBY T.S. ELIOT MARY QUANT BLUE POLES: NUMBER 11, 1952 CITIZEN KANE PABLO PICASSO COCO CHANEL RALPH ELLISON LUCILLE BALL GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ IGOR STRAVINSKY SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? OKLAHOMA! WAITING FOR GODOT...
...perspective, abolishing shadows, repudiating the academic distinction between line and color," as his biographer Hilary Spurling puts it. Already burdened by the Fauve ("wild beast") misnomer, his public saw his work as a threat "to undermine civilization as they knew it." At virtually the same moment, his great rival Picasso creates his equally masterly Cubist collage Still-Life with Chair Caning and Guitar, which reverses the centuries-old traditions of sculpture, focusing the spectator's eye not on the final effect but on the process and materials by which it is obtained...
...World War I begins. Its mindless slaughter heightens and validates the modernist vision. Picasso, watching the military vehicles rumble through Paris, sees in their camouflage painting a kind of Cubism, therefore a kind of modernist triumph. That same year James Joyce begins Ulysses, overturning our traditional expectations for action, plot, drama and the direct impact of one character on another in the novel. "Like Proust," Edmund Wilson writes, "he is symphonic rather than narrative...musical rather than dramatic...
Matisse's great poem to the art of painting shows how, in a space brimming with red and punctuated by renderings of his own pictures, the visual becomes the lord of all the senses. RUNNERS-UP Still-Life with Chair Caning by Pablo Picasso; Dog Barking at the Moon by Joan Miro...
This totemic reduction of nature--the streamlining of a bird's body, the swish of its flight--was a prediction of the technological world to come in the second half of the century. RUNNERS-UP Guitar by Pablo Picasso; The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti...