April 26, 2002
The Unrecognized Role of Aristocrats in Modernism
In the early 20th century, iconoclastic painters, writers, and composers overthrew the old artistic order. The force of that Modernist movement has kept scholars from appreciating the contributions of aristocrats, then and earlier, to a sense of "the modern," argues Charles A. Riley II, an associate professor of English at Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York. Several aristocratic artists, he suggests in Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination (University Press of New
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