Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without that almost clairvoyant amendment by Cooper, we would be left with a very different impression of the modernist Ellsworth Kelly. By his own unabashed admission, Kelly is "minimalist," a title which suggests that his work could be seen as being overly impersonal. But this "immense detachment," as Cooper calls it, is impersonal in the sense of modesty, not purposeful indifference...
Harvard has also flirted with queer studies, a mish-mash of 1960s performance theory and post-structuralism. Marxist cultural criticism and post-modernist theories seem to be mainstays of many introductory humanities courses...
...Core art history course I took, the majority of the writings were either Marxist, post-structuralist or post-modernist. The head TF of the course, who was fair in his tolerance of my opinions to the contrary, informed me that, indeed, the pedagogical goal was to "destabilize" the Western conception of art. So we read a large amount of Michel Foucault, whose connection to visual culture is entirely dubious...
...post-post modernist...
DIED. WILLIAM GADDIS, 75, venerated modernist author; of prostate cancer; in East Hampton, N.Y. Gaddis, who published four complex novels in 40 years, never achieved a popular following, but he did win ecstatic acclaim from critics. His innovative use of language and masterly social satire inspired comparisons to Joyce, Pynchon and Melville. When scholars tried to deconstruct his work, he said, "What can I do if people insist I'm cleverer than I think...