Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walt Kuhn, oldtime Manhattan modernist - for haunting, austere circus figures in oil for which he is best known, plus a few landscapes and still lifes...
More lenient, Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu and Italian modernist Composer Vittorio Rieti hedged. So did Austrian Composer Ernst Krenek, who philosophically noted that the great 16th-Century Italian Composer Palestrina "collaborated" with the Pope and the Council of Trent, and that Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is unquestionably "collaborating" with Joseph Stalin. Concluded he: "Anyone called upon for advice will have to search his conscience: does he wish to lend his hand to the political game, or does he prefer to live by the word of the Gospel: 'Judge not, that ye be not judged...
Hindemith v. Hanfstängl. FurtwĠngler's biggest struggle came in 1934 when he was readying Paul Hindemith's opera Mat his der Maler for the Berlin Opera. Hindemith, a modernist, was a particular enemy of Hitler's famed musical adviser, Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstangl. Orders came from Goring to postpone the performance indefinitely. FurtwĠngler thereupon wrote an article for the Berlin papers denouncing Nazi musical policy and claiming a free artist's right to perform whatever he liked...
...Walter Gropius, former guiding genius of Germany's modernist Bauhaus (liquidated by Hitler), now head of Harvard's Architecture Department. Gropius "fundamentally offers nothing more novel than the lally column and the two-by-four timber." He is "hurting our architecture by advocating a philosophy which doesn't belong here...
...Frank Lloyd Wright, No. 1 U.S. modernist architect. Wright would "get further" if he "tried an experiment on a reasonable scale, frankly called it an experiment . . . refrained from announcing that it was the pattern of all future American living...