The article reviews the art exhibition Hippie Modernism: Struggle for Utopia, which featured works by artists including Ira Cohen, Evelyn Roth and Ken Isaac, held at Walker Art Center, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, through February 28, 2016.

This article argues that "genetic modernism" in seeds was simultaneously a technoscientific and a political project that materialized under wartime Vichy's proto-fascist regime and that contributed to shaping and legitimizing Vichy as a "planner state." The constitution of the genetically homogeneous cultivar as a scientific object, a market commodity, and a state policy object went hand in han...

This paper examines the relationship between the Revue Olympique (monthly publication that first appeared in 1901), the Modern Olympic Movement and modern culture. Specifically, it demonstrates that the Revue Olympique provided a link between the ideology of the Modern Olympic Movement and the discourse of modernism. According to Art Herman (1994), modernism specifies a series of suppositions t...

eorge Eliot’s legacy for modernism is worth considering on multiple grounds but especially in the context of religious belief and its influence on social morality. The comments of two early twentieth-century writers are suggestive of the mixed nature of her legacy. On the one hand, novelist Virginia Woolf (among the most strident critics of Victorian culture) famously said of Middle-march (1872...

The paper reviews the relationship between spatial and transportation planning in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region of Sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that most urbanisation in the region has largely occurred subsequent to the 1950s and, accordingly, urban development has been profoundly and negatively affected by the (misguided) spatial and institutional tenets of modernis...