Less well known are his modernist experiments with abstraction and ambiguous details in the 1920's, which first brought him to public attention in Mexico in 1928.

The result resembles three-dimensional collage, recalling pioneering modernist experiments by El Lissitsky and Theo van Doesburg.

The book has become the subject of renewed interest in recent years for its innovative graphic conception and its style which prefigures the modernist experiments of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements.

Mr. Martins, on the other hand, is totally at home in Balanchine's genre of modernist experiments.

Viewing the entire well of the European tradition, including modernist experiment, as poisoned, Weill took on the appearance of a Broadway tunesmith but brought to American musical theater a technical sophistication and intellectual self-consciousness it had lacked.

It is a language of movement that can be easily lost, as Balanchine saw in Diaghilev's modernist experiments and in American ballet in the 1930's.

Although the stories of Behazin show similar indebtedness to classical Persian models, he does not follow Golestan's modernist experiments with syntax.

The second novel, All That's Left to You, is considered one of the earliest and most successful modernist experiments in Arabic Fiction.

The photomontages came to public attention after Bauhaus historian Eckhard Neumann solicited the early experiments, stimulated by resurgent interest in modernist experiment in the West.

And though it was the Soviet administration that decreed an end to extravagant modernist experiments and a return to a simpler, less stylized presentation, it was America that accepted the directive without even being aware of it.