modernism

Burdened by unquenchable ambition, cocksure confidence and immeasurable talent, Whistler was in many ways an outlier of his age, with an inside track to 20th-century modernism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

“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

Emerging in the late ’60s and hitting its stride by the ’80s, postmodernism is defined as a reaction against that less-is-more, strict-type of modernism that came from Europe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

All three of us share a focus on researching, archiving and documenting Black modernism and space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

The strange, passionate marriage of Russian and French modernism that was born at those Trocadero concerts was to turn into something big, noisy and rebellious.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The score for “X” traffics in multiple modernisms.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

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

There he produced a stream of paintings that synthesized Cubism and other European modernisms, mixed in non-Western motifs and mysterious symbols and culminated in his lusty, elegiac German Officer paintings.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014

His modernisms were out of tune with the present strain of my aspirations, and I did not find the unexpected word and the eccentricities of expression which were, and are still, so dear to me.

From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore