And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.
I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin, and the British poets who were imported through that important anthology put together by Alvarez - and those would include Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. And I think these poets gave me assurance that there were other ways to write besides the rather involuted style of high modernism whose high priests were Pound, Eliot and Stevens, and Crane perhaps.
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Cézanne through the 1950s.
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens to be cloaked in religion, but these are people saying enough is enough. It's happened again and again through history. The good news is that modernism has always won.
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
