modernism
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“Tucked behind mature hedging on one of Malibu’s most desirable streets, this exquisite estate presents a striking blend of California modernism and rustic refinement,” the listing noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Exhibition text here acknowledges the impact of Japanese colonialism on modern Korean painting, but the story stays with the artists, showing how they built internal support networks to define Korean modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
She said her focus was following in the footsteps of Tennessee Williams and the other greats of American modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
“So are people that have been obsessing on modern art and modernism all their lives — they’re gonna be confounded by it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Faced with the twin rebellions of dissonant modernism and the mass market, the classical tradition found an ace up its sleeve and played it with impeccable timing.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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The score for “X” traffics in multiple modernisms.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
Instead, they look to South America and Concrete art, with its cross-fertilization of imported European and indigenous modernisms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018
The view that there were many modernisms is now commonplace.
From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017
If this were so, the relative rarity of "anachronisms" and of modernisms in language in the Homeric poems is explained.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
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