Universal Civilization and National Cultures 1935–1998

Abstract

Opposed to the Regionalism of Restriction is another type of regionalism, the Regionalism of Liberation. This is the manifestation of a region that is especially in tune with the emerging thought of the time. We call such a manifestation “regional” only because it has not yet emerged elsewhere ∖h. A region may develop ideas. A region may accept ideas. In California in the late Twenties and Thirties modern European ideas met a stilldeveloping regionalism. In New England, on the other hand, European Modernism met a rigid and restrictive regionalism that at first resisted and then surrendered. New England accepted European Modernism whole because its own regionalism had been reduced to a collection of restrictions.