Modernism: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	Modernist
Date	c. 1890 - c. 1950
Significant Works	Absalom, Absalom! • Finnegans Wake • Four Quartets • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock • The Sound and the Fury • To the Lighthouse • Ulysses • The Waste Land • The Waves
Related Artists	Virginia Woolf • T.S. Eliot • William Faulkner • Joseph Conrad • James Joyce • Henry James • Arnold Schoenberg • Marcel Proust • Anton Webern • Miles Davis • Lina Bo Bardi • John Coltrane • Gertrude Stein • Fumihiko Maki • Charles Correa • Paul Rudolph • Henri Dutilleux • Henning Larsen • Adonis • Stan Kenton • Thelonious Monk • Loie Fuller • Paulo Mendes da Rocha • Richard Diebenkorn • Max Roach • Rudolf Laban • Mina Loy • Émile Jaques-Dalcroze • J.J. Johnson • Kenny Clarke • Ray Kappe • Antonin Raymond