“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.” SeemsWorstHorrorMassDrivenContemporaryFeaturesAttractiveObsessedComparisonPeculiarTributeModernismBourgeoisieContemporary Life Author:Christopher Lasch
“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.” CultureReaderTraditionCriticismRefusePermitDepressingPietyModernismCanonCulture Religion Author:Leslie Fiedler
“French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.” DesignArtificialModernism Author:Christian Lacroix
“Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.” NeedsHumansLiteraturePostsAddressesModernismHuman NeedsPost Modernism Author:David Guterson
“What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.” Has BeensInterestModernism Author:Peter Gay