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'Modernism: The Lure of Heresy' by Peter Gay, by Tim Rutten
From the website: A great medievalist once remarked that, in the end, Byzantine civilization failed because it was merely ingenious rather than original. Thanks to what we now call modernism, that can't be said of the Euro-American culture that has dominated the world for the last two centuries.
Gleefully Upsetting the Artistic Apple Cart by William Grimes
From the website: After World War II, Mr. Gay finds "much talent and little genius." Pop Art's erasure of distinctions between high and low art, crucial in his mind to the Modernist project, spelled the end of the great human adventure that began a century or more earlier. But Mr. Gay is not quite ready to sign the death certificate, especially after a visit to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry. A twitch here, a jerk there, and who knows? There may indeed be life after death.
