Modernists

The prints that inspired the Modernists were a "low" and popular art form, and they led to the rise of commercial graphics as a serious art in the early work of Bonnard and then, in his wake, of Toulouse-Lautrec and others. 


The Nation: Top Stories 2009

There is no link between the ideas that A.) a group of writers Lev Grossman defines as Modernists wrote books that are hard to read, and Z.) "millions of readers" "need something they're not getting elsewhere".

It's a Plot! 2009

There is no link between the ideas that A.) a group of writers Lev Grossman defines as Modernists wrote books that are hard to read, and Z.) "millions of readers" "need something they're not getting elsewhere".

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

On the whole, Unitarians appear to be encouraged by the signs of the times, and to do their share of religious culture and benevolent work while cultivating the friendship of 'Modernists' of all kinds, Christian, Jewish, Moslem, and Hindoo.

Unitarianism W.G. Tarrant 1890

"Modernists," in Father Putka's classification, go to church less frequently and are less guided by Catholic beliefs.

Father Joe 2008

Poetry was a "vital" art, read by one and all, back in the good old 19th century (when poets still knew how to rhyme, dammit!) but has been destroyed by putatively "brilliant" but in fact dastardly Modernists intent on making poetry too "difficult" for the average reader, a private possession of the "snobs and professors."

Poetry 2010

Her approach, like that of the European Modernists she revered, was unceasingly experimental and analytic, although the object of her investigations was art itself rather than nature.

A Painter in Her Own Right Jonathan Lopez 2011

Indeed, once the Modernists figured out it wasn't always possible to display actual structure on the skins of their buildings, they often retreated to depicting an iconographic or fictive structure reminiscent of some, though not all, subspecies of classicism.

The Dangers of Architectural Positivism 2009

Her beauty was just as inspiring to the high Modernists—Picasso painted her, and Jean Cocteau cast her as a modern-day Galatea in 'The Blood of a Poet' 1930.

Photo-Op: Eternal Lee 2011

The building illustrates the close dialogue between Russian and European Modernists: Taking up Le Corbusier's principles, it was elevated on pilotis, had banded fenestration and a roof garden.

Ideology Through Geometry Cammy Brothers 2011