Modernist poetry in English

believes that what Picasso was depicting had so much weight that it couldn’t just represent one specific event in history - and in that sense, Schama also believes that Picasso was incapable of painting Guernica using his own imagery/ideas - “The modernist called not just on his own ensemble of archetypes, but on the entire history of image-making. Old masters, such as Rubens and Goya, Christian apocalypse manuscripts and ancient sculpture were all called upon to help him in the superhuman…

with Aschenbach’s love of classical literature and beauty as justification for Aschenbach’s behavioral decline. However, the mood of this novella remains cloaked, in disguise of the fact of Aschenbach’s true aching illness: pederasty. The Oxford English Dictionary, defines pederasty as homosexual relations between a man and a boy. One should look through the shroud of classicism to understand Mann’s novella realistically, because the disturbing aspects of obsession and stalking speak out more…

Poetry leads one into their own imagination and allows the reader to set their own scene and follow the outlined chain of events within their own minds. Similarly, the story-telling capabilities of Martin Boyce's work are what leads us on our own, retrospective…

Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…