Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the built environment by moving away from ornate, historical styles and embracing ...

Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and their contemporaries produced wildly different books with one thing in common: the belief that writers needed to break with the old.

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...