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

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