It is through the effort to recapture the self and scrutinize the self, it is through the lasting tension of their freedom that men will be able to create the ideal conditions of existence for a human world. -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks The great modernisms were ... predicated on the invention of a personal, private style .... This means that the modernist aesthetic is in some way organically linked to the concep tion of a unique self and private identity.