tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960565.post4186716775026104208..comments2023-05-13T07:33:01.202-04:00Comments on The Stone Owl: Kimball on Kramer on Modernism & PostmodernismSamuel J. Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12766238466391394665noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960565.post-58156578847160115932013-05-09T15:29:00.454-04:002013-05-09T15:29:00.454-04:00It's odd to shoehorn "modernism" as ...It's odd to shoehorn "modernism" as a movement into an explicitly nostalgic and backwards looking critical framework, as "preserving or reclaiming" does. Especially with modernism being so concerned with forging a new, coherent aesthetic. It's especially weird to call out post-modernism for being nihilistic, when most of the explicitly nihilistic art of the 20th century came from modernism's reaction to the world wars. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14672045132176804044noreply@blogger.com