modernism

“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

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

From the point that his “Nude Descending a Staircase” scandalized the American art world in 1913, Duchamp’s influence on modernism was undeniable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Given that Russia was at this point at the very vanguard of modernism it was a bitter pill to swallow, and understandably so.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

I do feel that there's not much happiness in these so-called modernisms, but don't let's spoil our few minutes....

From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison