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In the decades following his death, Kovacs was sometimes labeled a post-modernist thanks to his boundary-pushing employment of nascent television technologies, such as split-screens and negative-image effects, as well as his tendency to gleefully assault the "fourth wall" separating performer and home audience by dragging studio microphones and cameras into his skits and monologues.
In Praise of the Funny Man's Comedian Bruce Bennett 2011
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Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976 | These two artists bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art.
Bill Bush: The Little Gallery That Did: This Artweek.LA (October 2-8, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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On the international scene, one poet in particular of the post-modernist school, Zbigniew Herbert of Poland, brings a thoughtful character to light, Mr. Cogito, who seems to carry the whole sad history of Eastern Europe on his shoulders as he ponders the state of our times.
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The Symposium aims to challenge the "narratives of modernist and post-modernist art history that have tended to omit serious consideration of Christian strains in 20th century and current artistic practice."
Matthew Milliner: The Return Of The Religious In Contemporary Art Matthew Milliner 2011
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I suspect where some of us disagree with him is that there is a fuzzy zone where indeed the post-modernist critique has it right, where truth is to some degree in the eye of the beholder for a variety of reasons, with Robin being more likely to deny the reality of that zone.
Robin Hanson Video, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I expect that she will become our first truly post-modernist judge.
Stromata Blog: 2010
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I expect that she will become our first truly post-modernist judge.
Law 2010
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Social historians like Clare Graves and Jean Gebser have developed developmental models that show how human individuals and cultures recapitulate individual growth through archaic, magical, mythical-tribal, modernist, post-modernist and onto integral value structures.
Sunday Salon: “What Good are the Arts” by John Carey: Some musings Part 2 2009
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I expect that she will become our first truly post-modernist judge.
War on Terror 2010
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The Symposium aims to challenge the "narratives of modernist and post-modernist art history that have tended to omit serious consideration of Christian strains in 20th century and current artistic practice."
Matthew Milliner: The Return Of The Religious In Contemporary Art Matthew Milliner 2011
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