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I wonder if members of this list are aware of another mailbase list about modernism: [log in to unmask] Most of the postings relate to literature, a few to art history, none to the history of design. I would encourage design historians to seek representation here in the name of interdisciplinary - and indeed international - understanding and awareness of what we do. I reproduce below a query from the list and one of the replies it elicited, which I am sure members of the design history list could provide illuminating responses to: "Does anyone know when "modernist" or "modernism" (as distinct > from "modern") was first used to refer to the literature and art that we > now know by those terms? " > "I always learned the term Modern Art, as in the Museum of Modern Art. "Modernist" seems to be unique to English lit. A lot of colleges still offer classes in modern art but modernist literature. I've never heard of an art museum that used "modernist" instead of "modern" in its name. I like "modern" better. "Modernist" has just a faint tinge of implying "supposedly modern" (but not really modern)..." [etc.] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%