Word: twentieth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TROUBLE WITH THE SOLOmon R. Guggenheim Museum's much awaited show at its main venue in Manhattan, "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline," is that its subject is far too big. The task that curator Mark Rosenthal has taken on is roughly comparable to doing an anthology of, say, European and American fiction since 1910 in 300 printed pages. However much you might wish it could be done, it can't. The field is too vast. You end up with a sample here, a masterpiece there, an overschematic story and an infinity of regrets about the omission...
...three goals of the course are to give a detailed reading of twentieth century literature, to define the basic narrative terms and to connect the literary works to the wider cultural perspective of the time...
...designed to be analysis of twentieth century American culture," Fisher says...
...extensive reading list focuses primarily on twentieth century American writers such as Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Jack London and William Faulkner...
...class begins with a focus on naturalism and the move from the "nineteenth century culture symbolized by its landscapes and its relation to nature" to the modernism of the twentieth century, according to the syllabus...