Journal created:
on 29 May 2005 (#7260713)
Updated:
on 7 March 2009
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
A community for people who like Modernists [c.1875 to c. 1975] and the artistic and ideological movements and productions of the era.
“In the last one hundred years…’modern’ has come to distinguish our perception of our lives and times from all that has gone before, from history as a whole, as such. Modern architecture, modern music, modern philosophy, modern science—all these define themselves not out of the past, indeed scarcely against the past but in independence of the past.”
-Carl Schorske, 1979
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
-Wallace Stevens, 1923
Rules:
Off-topic Posts are Acceptable if they are not Self Serving, Pointless or Disruptive
No Personal Attacks, Flames or Unnecessary Drama
There is a "Stupid" Fliter
(Est. 29 May 2005)
“In the last one hundred years…’modern’ has come to distinguish our perception of our lives and times from all that has gone before, from history as a whole, as such. Modern architecture, modern music, modern philosophy, modern science—all these define themselves not out of the past, indeed scarcely against the past but in independence of the past.”
-Carl Schorske, 1979
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
-Wallace Stevens, 1923
Rules:
Off-topic Posts are Acceptable if they are not Self Serving, Pointless or Disruptive
No Personal Attacks, Flames or Unnecessary Drama
There is a "Stupid" Fliter
(Est. 29 May 2005)
andre breton, andy warhol, anton chekhov, arnold schoenberg, art deco, bart van der leck, bauhaus, berlin, bertolt brecht, bertrand russell, bloomsbury group, bob dylan, carl jung, christopher isherwood, claude debussy, cubism, d.h. lawrence, dada, decadence, degeneration, edmund husserl, ernst ludwig kirchner, ezra pound, federico garcía lorca, fin de siecle, frank lloyd wright, franz kafka, fritz lang, futurism, george bernard shaw, gertrude stein, gustav klimt, gustav mahler, gustave flaubert, h.d., henri bergson, henri matisse, henry van de velde, james joyce, jean cocteau, john maynard keynes, jorge luis borges, joseph conrad, julio cortázar, london, luigi pirandello, marcel duchamp, marcel proust, modernism, new york, orson welles, pablo picasso, paris, paul cezanne, piet mondrian, prague, rainer maria rilke, roy lichtenstein, salvador dali, samuel beckett, siegfried sassoon, sigmund freud, surrealism, t.s. eliot, the waste land, ulysses, vienna, virginia woolf, w.b. yeats, w.h. auden, wallace stevens, wassily kandinsky, william carlos williams, william faulkner