modernism and the beauty of the dialectic process Putting Modernism Together

so i realized during my excrutiatingly long flights today that i love essence of the modernist movement. the entire thing was such an extreme dialectic process - fueled by so much rejection and soul searching. it produced so many beautiful - if bizarre - contributions to the aesthetic... and then it ate itself up too, as it inevitably had to do.

i don't know, i guess i'm enchanted by the amazing vitality displayed by the movement. cubism, impressionism, expressionism - everything cool came through the same modernist, rejectionist, insatiable ethic. its awesome. it makes me wish i was there.  ¶ 12:29 AM