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Example sentences for: modernism

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Literary fashion is elusive; what in the 1960s might have seemed like an apotheosis of modernism had, by the decidedly postmodern 1990s, come to seem old hat.
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he "can't paint very well" (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because "confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siècle ." (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)
Taniguchi's quiet, thorough style (steeped in Japanese modernism) beat out more flamboyant entrants.
But as far as I can tell, he was correct in every respect: right that Pollock was ugly, right about where American Modernism was going, and right that Pollock had genius trapped inside him.
Rosenman even dipped into the 12-tone techniques revered by the very high priests of modernism who thought his profession was debased.