ivan’s Reviews > Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night > Status Update

Saltz talks about the birth of modernism, and I love wide cultural analysis like this: "It was an age that saw countless institutions collapse. This psychic shattering is reflected in the creations of ... Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'colossal Wreck' of 'Ozymandias', the Black Paintings of Francisco Goya, the cryptic visions of William Blake, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" (7).