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Modernism in Europe was ... a matter of political controversy. Those who supported the traditional views on church and state opposed the Modernists and their drive toward social reforms. Within the Roman Catholic church, the centralization of church government in Rome and the influence of the Curia were attacked. Church discipline over the clergy was strongly questioned. Perhaps most notable was the movement among scholars to work and publish without supervision from the church.
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From teaspoons to cocktail shakers, Modernism in American Silver examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. The exhibit will highlight more than 200 outstanding works, from art moderne to contemporary, by the foremost designers of production silver. Widely recognized figures such as Erik Magnussen, Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, Elsa Peretti and Richard Meier are among the featured designers.
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In the 1930s, many of the leading European modernists emigrated to the United States; ... the theory and practice of Modernism became widespread. The 'tradition of the new', as Richard Weston called it, became the dominant mode of progressive artists. What had begun as a cluster of loosely related artistic movements scattered across Europe emerged as the dominant style of the 20th century.
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WASHINGTON, July 2 PRNewswire-USNewswire — On July 29, the critically acclaimed exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939, will close at the Corcoran Gallery of Art — the exhibition's final stop. Modernism is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition on the subject ever staged in the United States, and the Corcoran is its only American venue. The exhibition was originally organized by London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Following its four-month visit to Washington, D.C., Modernism will be dismantled and its objects will be returned to lenders worldwide.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — This spring, the Corcoran Gallery of Art will host the critically acclaimed exhibition, Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939, from March 17 through July 29, 2007. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition on Modernism to be staged in the United States to date and was originally organized by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). In fact, the Corcoran will be the show’s only American venue, following its installation at the V&A and MARTa Herford in Germany.
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Clement Greenberg wrote 'What can be safely called Modernism emerged in the middle of the last century— and rather locally, in France, with Baudelaire in literature and Manet in painting, and maybe with Flaubert, too, in prose fiction. (It was a while later, and not so locally, that Modernism appeared in music and architecture). The "avant-garde" was what Modernism was called at first, and the term remained to describe movements which identify themselves as attempting to overthrow some aspect of tradition or the status quo.
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