If Adams seems unconcerned with appearing old-fashioned, Stephen Shore is, for want of a better word, a modernist.
The visual center of the Stuttgart City Library is its grand atrium, a five-story open chamber that feels like the work of a modernist MC Esher.
This painter of shimmering landscapes, bathers and interiors, born in 1867, is not a latter-day Impressionist after all. He was a modernist, a man looking forward not back.
The modernist can't live without symbol.
It makes it into a real literary object, sort of like a modernist text.
He did win over the majority of the “modernist” wings of both groups, but by smaller margins than did Mr Kerry.
Ensor’s artistic leap into unreality is next. Isolated from his modernist peers in France and Germany (and often resentful of them), he managed to create a dreamy visual language all his own.
Both of them constitute the heuristic “theory of modernist”.
One was the influence of the European modernist movement, led by Bauhaus architects in Germany and le Corbusier in France.
Maxwell cuts a clean line, and several of his pieces — a black tank dress with a curvy sweetheart neckline, or a layered-lapel tux — possessed a modernist bent missing in a lot of evening wear.
First published in 1918, My Antonia is generally considered a modernist novel.
It was a set of critical and rhetorical practices that sought to destabilise the modernist touchstones of identity, historical progress and epistemic certainty.
But he has not wooed back breakaway hardliners or dumped the Second Vatican Council's ecumenical, modernist legacy.
The old modernist optimism was replaced with late modern suspicion.
Bosses may stick a few modernist daubs on their boardroom may go on corporate jollies to the may even write the odd cheque to support their wives' bearded friends.
Expressionist graphics, decisive slogans and modernist wit pervade these images.
Finally, what is now called academic economics will be treated with the same disrespect that rigorous (and practical) minds currently have for Derrida-style post-modernist verbiage.
Mosaic tile floors in the elevator bank, domed ceiling lobby, and hanging bronze lamps in the rooms evoke a sleek, modernist interpretation of Byzantium.
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