Tag: modernism

• The Decline of Deviance

  December 14, 2025

  Where has all the weirdness gone? https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-decline-of-deviance?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• “A Terrific Boomerang Effect”: On Wifredo Lam’s “Rumblings of the Earth”

  December 13, 2025

  In Wifredo Lam’s painting Rumblings of the Earth (1950), nothing and no one appears human. Eyes, breasts, and mouths intermingle with horns, hooves, blades, and arrows. Hybrid figures rise from deep within… more ›

• Modernist Blondes

  July 27, 2025

  July 24, 2025 – On Anita Loos’s Great American Novel. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/07/24/modernist-blondes/?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2a54aab99d-TPRMailchimp_20250725_WEEKLY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35491ea532-2a54aab99d-56488262&mc_cid=2a54aab99d&mc_eid=f0a2685ef4 more ›