While there are occasional references to modernist critics of the architect's retardataire designs, there is no real effort to place that battle in its rich historical context.

Recent scholars note that modernist critics tended to exclude women writers such as Frances Trollope from serious consideration.

That same year, in autumn, he traveled to the capital city of Bucharest, visiting modernist critic and theorist Eugen Lovinescu, the doyen of a literary circle known as Sburătorul.

His modernist paintings and drawings of blacks and whites together were condemned by traditional critics as too radical, while his other paintings were condemned by modernist critics as too traditional.

Mr. Qutb, who began his career as a modernist literary critic, was radicalized by a roughly yearlong stay in the United States, between 1948 and 1950.

Despite these recent developments, Larkin and his circle are nonetheless still firmly rejected by modernist critics and poets.

Even more stern was the modernist critic Yuly Aykhenvald in his 1906 essay.

Realism continued as an on-going art movement, even experiencing a reemergence in the 1930s, but by the 1950s modernist critics and Abstract Expressionism had all but minimalized realism as a serious art undertaking.

He suggests that Pop art, under the guise of quoting images from popular culture, smuggled representation back into serious art, after modernist critics had banished it as inherently sentimental and debased.

Indeed, it is remarkable how little modernist critics actually said about the building.