LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Modernism: Painting
built 659 days ago
Its café's "Modernism menu" features the Feldhaus (poached salmon) and the Berliner (granola, yoghurt, and fruit). The exhibit exit is through a specially constructed gift shop carrying everything from miniature and life-sized chairs to red ice cube trays shaped to produce nine miniature Savoy vases. Through a locked glass case shines a silver and ebony tea service modeled after Marianne Brandt's 1924 version priced upwards of $40,000.
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This positive view of Modernism was a legacy of the Futurists (many of whom had Fascist inclinations). Obsessed with modernity, they saw Modernism as a true reflection of a dynamic, industrialised and technologically oriented regime.
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Nonetheless, she was able to create a unique position for herself by simultaneously reaching back into tradition and pointing forward towards the fantastic tale of both Modernism and the Post-Modernist literature of the last 10 to 20 years. Her seemingly old-fashioned aristocratic ways and fatalism conceal an extreme aestheticism of life and narrative, inspired by among others Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard.
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