modernism
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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
This time along with Rossen Ventzislavov, an educator who brought me out to Woodbury University last spring as a fellow to teach a one-of-a-kind semester on Black modernism in architecture, design and popular culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 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
Many of Lam’s forays into modernism, into the 1940s—dependent, almost to the point of parody, on Picasso—are schematic misunderstandings of Cubism’s spatial complexities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
I think he's writing about the long poem after modernism or something like that.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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