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Prepare for saints
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Steven Watson |
Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their… |
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Eileen Gray and the design of Sapphic modernity
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Jasmine Rault |
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From ornament to object
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Alina Alexandra Payne |
"In the late 19th century, a centuries-old preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects--c… |
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Aesthetic modernism and masculinity in fascist Italy
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John Champagne |
"Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of m… |
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Tradition and revolt
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Robert A. Nisbet |
From the Publisher: This classic volume deals with a crucial contemporary social issue: the conflict between traditionalism and modernism. Nisbet considers such subjects as power, community, culture,… |
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Samuel Beckett and cinema
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Anthony Paraskeva |
In 1936 Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to Sergei Eisenstein - the legendary director of such films as Battleship Potemkin - expressing his own desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. Draw… |
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