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One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.
Peter Watson A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind: A History
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One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.
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A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind: A History

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