The modernists he discusses were drenched in ideas, especially of better or hidden worlds.
Both the stone and the lanterns caused modernists to shudder, but some shoppers love them.
He did not believe, as modernists held, that the world could be made better by architecture.
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Impressionists, Early Modernists, 20th Century painters and Aboriginal artists will all be represented in London.
The phrase became a battle cry for modernists such as his one-time draughtsman, Frank Lloyd Wright.
This is the sense of function inherited from Viollet-le-Duc and taken to heart by the modernists.
In some respects, modernists would even come to define themselves against crowd-pleasing populism.
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Until then modernists needed to finagle access to elite showrooms in big cities to see or purchase these pieces.
British modernists and postmodernists alike have warmed themselves before Hawksmoor's flinty buildings, with their coarse masses and deceptive volumes.
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These examples and others explain how, even if the Europeans won the day, American modernists would soon supplant them.
Art lovers who miss the exhibitions will have to resort to an accompanying catalog, Pre-War Balinese Modernists 1928-1942, and CD-ROM.
Many pioneering American modernists were left off the Armory list altogether, including A.S. Baylinson, Jerome Blum, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, B.
And while not every interior makes a case for Bonnard as one of the great modernists, the ones that do so do that and more.
As architects began to look back at the history modernists had discarded, his interest grew in the neoclassicism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Mr. Kandel connects his biologism with the Viennese Modernists by arguing tendentiously that these artists were instinctive neuroscientists who knew how to give the brain what it wants.
In the mid-century Modernists demonstrated "less is more" with nearly no ornamental elements and stark simplicity - think the Google search page prior to all those whimsical banners.
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Some American modernists at the time, like Hartley, were directly engaged with Europe's progressive artistic circles (although, at the Armory, Davies unfortunately chose not to display Hartley's more abstract paintings).
The number of shows is one barometer: Latin modernists like Orozco are now showing up regularly in some 60 galleries and museums in the U.S. (in shows sometimes underwritten by Lopez).
The universities had fallen victim to Marxists and post-modernists.
It was while he was still at school that Mr Carter's interest in modern music was fired up by his encounters with Charles Ives, the most radical of the early 20th-century American modernists.
Because of their quality and rarity, the early modernists' works are appreciating steadily: In 1996, for instance, a painting by Anak Agung Gede Sobrat fetched 11 times the estimate at Christie's auction in Amsterdam.
This explains the ascent of his reputation in the mid-nineteenth century, when his work showed modernists such as Manet that candid technique could serve the direct registration of things as they really appear, in streaming present tense.
Uganda has no tradition of sculpture: nothing like Kenya's popular Kamba carvings, still less the sophisticated wood and stone sculptures of Benin or elsewhere in West Africa, which brought bold lines into the work of Constantin Brancusi and other modernists.
He was one of the earliest patrons of the American modernists John Marin and Arthur Dove, and he bought the late work of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) in depth after World War II, a period when it was dismissed as emptily decorative.
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