modernism
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With a collagist technique adapted from Modernism, the trilogy encompasses World War I and the great crash of 1929.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
Through the sepia filter of today, it can be easy to romanticize this tale — a lesbian champion of the arts making the world safe for Modernism.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
It represents what might be called an Establishment Modernism, befitting a confident institution secure in its sense of self.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
To Onobrakpeya, affectionately called Baba Bruce within art circles, Nigerian Modernism is "a transfer of the old ideas, old items, old technologies, old thought into a different, modern time".
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
This vast "Modernism," as the poor, quaking Pope rather happily calls the ascendancy of science and criticism, has changed all.
From The Religious Situation by Smith, Goldwin
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