modernism
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Icons of Japanese modernism are being demolished one after the other, often to make way for larger, more profitable structures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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
She said her focus was following in the footsteps of Tennessee Williams and the other greats of American modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
All three of us share a focus on researching, archiving and documenting Black modernism and space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
A fan of modernism and progress in all forms, Greeley was happy to introduce his readers to the new idea of spirit communication.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
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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