Tag Archives: modernism

“Because I know I shall not know”

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Karie

I have read poetry most of my life, it seems. I was a quiet Danish teenage girl who read Lord Byron and Rupert Brooke in the school library, swooning over the bold romanticism of the poets’ words and lives. When … Continue reading →

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Thoughts of a Dry Brain in a Dry Season.

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Karie

“It’s a shocking piece,” [Miles] Hoffman says. “It’s still startling to us today when we hear it, but it is not a confusing piece. It’s compelling. We’re hearing irregular rhythms, we’re hearing instruments asked to go to the extremes of … Continue reading →

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A Visual Feast

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Karie

The art and architecture of Le Corbusier. It’s interesting to note how the architecture in the third image matches our expectation of ‘modern’ but not the furniture and the art pieces.. I’m also rather enamoured by the sixth image (that … Continue reading →

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