Modernism, Energy, and Environment

Thomas S. Davis

Contributors

Mei Foo Lamps: Standard Oil’s Old Technology and New Frontier

Yandong Li

At the top of the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, an exhibition designated “New Frontiers” showcases digital art and design works that are “technology-forward” and “innovative.” [1] The exhibition borrows its title from the Rockefeller Center’s...

Conrad’s Dynamite Time

Tobias Wilson-Bates

On February 15, 1894, a bomb went off in Greenwich Park near the Royal Observatory. The event set off a media frenzy that, thirteen years later, resulted in Joseph Conrad writing The Secret Agent (1907). Recent readings of the novel have...

Modernism, Energy, and Environment

Thomas S. Davis

In October 2019, The Getty Center in Los Angeles opened its “Manet and Modern Beauty” exhibit, a major reappraisal of Manet’s late work. The directors believed these canvases would reveal how “Manet’s growing fascination with contemporary fashion...

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May 11, 2022 By: Thomas S. Davis

Volume 6, Cycle 3

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anthropocene

ecology

Critical, speculative, and imaginative forays into modernism’s relationships with energy systems, ecological change, and the nonhuman world.