Early modernism’s simultaneous breakthrough is an unmatched intellectual moment

Evidence

I admit to being a modernist, in the sense that I find the early stages of the modernist project—when it is breaking through, historically, aesthetically, when it is all happening at once—the moment of Braque, Picasso, Joyce, Klee, the Bauhaus, Brecht, Heartfield, surrealism, and Dada to be one of the most fantastically exciting intellectual moments in twentieth-century history. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 729

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Category: Factual Claims

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