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
“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
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
And, in that half, explored another less knowable side of the moon represented by Richard Strauss’ well-known “Salome,” which helped usher in 20th-century operatic modernism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
The Rite of Spring was the zenith of musical modernism in the early twentieth century.
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
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
You hold up your hands in horror at this, not because you disagree, but because of my audacity in applying general modernisms to myself.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
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