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Article: Subjectivity is all: using a lifetime of colorful examples to define the undefinable.(Book review)
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- January 1, 2008
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MODERNISM The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond By Peter Gay Norton | $35
The difficulty of summing up the meaning of the word modernism has always been exemplified for me by the following paradox. T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland of 1922 is, largely, a pastiche of ironic quotations from past literature and from popular culture. It's an assemblage, a collage, like some of the cubism of Picasso and Braque. It is universally regarded as a monument of modernism. In the field of architecture, by contrast, the practice of designing a building as a pastiche of ironic quotations from the architecture of the past and from popular culture didn't come along ...