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Tom Wolfe summed up the case against modernist architecture in his 1981 book From Bauhaus to Our House, explaining how the European modernists of the early 20h century consciously cast tradition aside, believing they could create not just buildings but aesthetics and cities according to simple rational principles. Even though Stein and Larsen never did meet, this exchange between Stein and Larsen suggests that they saw each other as fellow writers and modernists and that Larsen saw her own work within the context of modernism's racial borrowing. Pascendi's Modernists see authority as a purely conservative force attempting to suppress change until being compelled to compromise. |
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