modernism
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Edwards has harnessed the language of European modernism to tell a singularly, painfully American story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
All three of us share a focus on researching, archiving and documenting Black modernism and space.
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
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
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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
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
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