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The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.
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Historicism???s Modernity: Modernism is History
1+ week, 4+ day ago (708+ words) Historicism’s Modernity: Modernism is History The Brooklyn Rail Among the shibboleths of the orthodox narrative touted by MoMA and American art history textbooks for much of the twentieth century, none has proved more stubborn than this: that modernism and historicism…...
History and Presentness
1+ week, 4+ day ago (833+ words) The Brooklyn Rail In school, I was interested in tabula rasa. I had this rather naïve notion that there was a kind of political and ethical purity in the avant-garde, which was pretty much outlawed in the Soviet Union, and…...