When I was first introduced to Abel Gance's La Roue, I was rather interested in the fact that it was released in 1922. I knew that this was also the year that James Joyce's Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land were published. I began to wonder why this year produced such significant works of modernism. I repeatedly asked a professor of mine, Bruce Kawin, a number of questions about 1922. My...

The late stage in the development of a socialist city second half twentieth century is usually attributed to phenomena “modernist wave”. This period saw highest rise Irkutsk school architecture, and we continue publish materials about wonderful sixtiers their best urban planning projects, which have not lost relevance. lively, modern character many aspects discussed articles from Irkutsk, Krasn...

This study is based on the premise that modernist literature, presented as an essentially Western current in established narratives of literary history, global nature, and there are works all around world fall within its scope. rests fact condition called modernity itself a phenomenon. Not only colonialism imperialism, but also projects modernization Westernization witnessed different geographi...

Three laws of architectural order are obtained by analogy from basic physical principles. They apply to both natural and man-made structures. These laws may be used to create buildings that match the emotional comfort and beauty of the world's great historical buildings. The laws are consistent with Classical, Byzantine, Gothic, Islamic, Eastern, and Art Nouveau architectures; but not with the ...

In her article "Innovation and Multimedia in the Poetry of cummings and Mayakovsky" Svetlana Nikitina discusses how e.e. cummings and Vladimir Mayakovsky foreshadowed the digital revolution of today in their multimedia experiments in poetry. Although they spoke different languages and lived in different societies, the two modernist poets display similarities in their modernist aesthetics. Both ...