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Back in New York, Strand started investigating the graphic dynamism at work in the shadows thrown down by the el tracks, and he began seriously investing in the possibilities of the overhead vantage, a Modernist urban trope he would will to Berenice Abbott and sundry Germans and Russians.
The flag was the outcome of a standard modernist ritual of self-launching.
In a new retrospective, the Vienna modernist (1890-1918) wins critics' grudging respect.
Best known for his Broadway musicals West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof , his greatest contribution is said to be the integration of Modernist innovations and popular dance steps with classical ballet.
The decades of modernism, however, produced music that was vehement (George Crumb's Black Angels ), haunted (Elliott Carter's Night Fantasies ), humorous (Berio's Sequenze ), dazzling (Wijtold Lutoslawski's Les Espaces du Sommeil )--not to mention music that wasn't modernist at all.