Posts Tagged ‘modernism’
Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus School
Lately, Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus School have been tracking me down. Actually, now that I think about it, it’s not so much that Gropius is tracking me down, but I’ve been hanging out in the places he hung out: a life of Alma Mahler, some research on the satirical artist George Grosz, some architectural…
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Flappers
The flapper of the 1920s took on a mythological character almost from the moment of her birth. With her short hair, short skirts and short attention span, she seemed like a new and unsettling breed of woman, one more aftermath of the First World War. In Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation, Judith Mackrell…
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The Modern Art Invasion: An Interview with Elizabeth Lunday
I’ve been looking forward to Elizabeth Lunday’s The Modern Art Invasion: Picasso, Duchamp and the 1913 Armory Show That Scandalized America for several years now. * Elizabeth tells the story of a piece of American history that is often forgotten, and just as often misunderstood** in an engaging style. Because I read Big Fat History…
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