No blockbuster monographs of modernist masters are in evidence.

He sprinkles awkward allusions to modernist masters, and to premodernist ones too.

Picasso would not be amused: his links with this elegant maritime city are so great that there's now a brilliant museum dedicated to the modernist master.

All had been written before Ellison's classic novel, "Invisible Man" (1952), established him as one of America's modernist masters.

However, his allegiance to the cause and principles of international modernism never comprehended an allegiance to Ezra Pound as a modernist master.

Mr. Roth can't be a modernist master because he has not felt redeemed by the creation of beauty.

At 77, Mr. Berio, a modernist master, is still at the cutting edge of his field.

Others are wildly shaped sculptures decorated with swirling patterns that bring to mind modernist masters like Klee and Brancusi.

That left it to the old modernist masters.

It seemed likely that once the original modernist masters retired from the scene, the music itself would die.