There are various ways to distinguish the modernist writer from the traditionalist. Here is one. The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite ...
New York City’s Armory Show of 1913 was the first major exhibition of modernist art on American soil, and the city has been associated with modernism ever since. Today, perhaps only Paris rivals New ...
“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes ...
The best American art is often hidden. Sometimes, it conceals itself in pop culture, hiding in plain sight by disguising itself as a commercial product. Think muscle cars, comic books, or the middle ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the ...
BRATTLEBORO — Barbara Will, Professor of English at Dartmouth College, will examine how the first World War altered the American literary landscape in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., ...
Georgia O’Keeffe, From the Plains I, 1953. Oil on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of Tom Slick, 1973.22. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum ...