Curated category
Modernism
- T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot wrote the opening of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" when he was twenty-two years old. The lines compared an evening sky to "a patient…
- Modern danceModern dance began with a refusal. In the late 19th century, a handful of artists looked at classical ballet, with its strict movement vocabulary, its…
- James JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd of February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, and died 58 years later in Zurich after surgery…
- Post-ImpressionismPost-Impressionism was a name no painter ever asked for. The art critic Roger Fry coined it in 1906, and reached for it again in 1910 when he needed a label…
- PostmodernismPostmodernism has been called the Swiss Army knife of critical concepts. That description comes from scholar Louis Menand, who noted that it is…
- SurrealismSurrealism announced itself to the world with a fistfight. In October 1924, two rival groups of artists and writers each published a manifesto claiming…
- Modernism"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." That line from W. B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" is how literary scholars often sum up Modernism, an early…
- ExistentialismExistentialism asks the most personal question imaginable: how does a person build a meaningful life when the universe offers no instructions?
- Buddhist modernismBuddhist modernism is a family of religious movements that began reshaping the oldest living religion on earth during the colonial era of the 19th century.
- Avant-gardeAvant-garde is a French military term that once described a reconnaissance unit sent ahead of the main army to scout unknown terrain.