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A German Master’s Modernist Epic of Postwar Amnesia and Hypocrisy
Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally…
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A New Show May Just Make Finnish Modernist Helene Schjerfbeck Your New Favorite Artist
In 1880s Paris, naturalism and genre paintings were the preferred styles in the Salons where Schjerfbeck exhibited. The visitor to the Met…
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Revisiting “Columbus,” a Thrilling Drama of Growing Up Modernist
There’s a special kind of movie that’s inextricably linked to where it’s filmed. The locations aren’t just picturesque settings for action…