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Since a loss of faith in the Modernist canon often seems to be paired with a disillusionment with communist teleology, wouldn't championing the essential conservatism of all those Zhdanovists make a dandy short circuit?
Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?
Gerrit Reitveld, designer of the Van Gogh Museum, has several designs in the collection, and the work of Piet Mondrian, the Dutch modernist, are some of the most popular in the museum.
As were the modernist playwright Luigi Pirandello, the poet d'Annunzio, and the major Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who influenced Collingwood and was minister of education in Mussolini's government.
In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the latter: "One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways)."