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  • I don't think Morrison is using what you describe as Modernist techniques to make a superhero comic in order to elevate superhero comics to high art.

    FINAL CRISIS, Pt. 1: The Modernist Background 2010

  • It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature.

    The only thing appealing about the L.A. Times’ Postmodern list is its cute little icons 2009

  • It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature.

    2009 July 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • Molecular gastronomy has its new bible, a six-volume, 2,400-word tome titled The Modernist Cuisine: The

    Luxist 2010

  • "Those of us with a passion for either geometric art or Latin American Modernist painting now realize what a pivotal role" Herrera has played in "the development of geometric abstraction in the Americas," Sullivan said.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • "Those of us with a passion for either geometric art or Latin American Modernist painting now realize what a pivotal role" Herrera has played in "the development of geometric abstraction in the Americas," Sullivan said.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • "Those of us with a passion for either geometric art or Latin American Modernist painting now realize what a pivotal role" Herrera has played in "the development of geometric abstraction in the Americas," Sullivan said.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • High-end kitchen-cum-laboratories like Wiley Dufresne's wd-50 have been fixtures in New York City and elsewhere for years, and former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold has created a 2,400-page cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.

    Wired Top Stories Hugh Hart 2011

  • Why is it still respectable in our "Post-Modern" world to read, write and accept as given a "Modernist", mainly Marxist interpretation of history, and especially of the British Empire?

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Mostly because even tho I didn't understand Spainish, I knew what was going on, and it was way more traditional than my local "Modernist" mass.

    Some times I wonder Dymphna 2009

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