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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modernism \Mod"ern*ism\, n.
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially by Pope Pius X.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc. 2 (context countable English) Anything that is characteristic of modernity. 3 Any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century. 4 A religious movement in the early 20th century that tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy.
WordNet
n. genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" [syn: modernity, modernness, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness]
practices typical of contemporary life or thought
Wikipedia
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.
Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill-fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was the touchstone of the movement's approach towards what it saw as the now obsolete culture of the past. In this spirit, its innovations, like the stream-of-consciousness novel, atonal (or pantonal) and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and abstract art, all had precursors in the 19th century.
A notable characteristic of modernism is self-consciousness and irony concerning literary and social traditions, which often led to experiments with form, along with the use of techniques that drew attention to the processes and materials used in creating a painting, poem, building, etc. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism and makes use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody.
Some commentators define modernism as a mode of thinking—one or more philosophically defined characteristics, like self-consciousness or self-reference, that run across all the novelties in the arts and the disciplines. More common, especially in the West, are those who see it as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology. From this perspective, modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence, from commerce to philosophy, with the goal of finding that which was 'holding back' progress, and replacing it with new ways of reaching the same end. Others focus on modernism as an aesthetic introspection. This facilitates consideration of specific reactions to the use of technology in the First World War, and anti-technological and nihilistic aspects of the works of diverse thinkers and artists spanning the period from Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) to Samuel Beckett (1906–1989).
In music, modernism is a philosophical and aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that lead to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time. The operative word most associated with it is "innovation" . Its leading feature is a "linguistic plurality", which is to say that no one music genre ever assumed a dominant position .
Examples include the celebration of Arnold Schoenberg's rejection of tonality in chromatic post-tonal and twelve-tone works and Igor Stravinsky's move away from metrical rhythm .
Modernism refers to a movement in the arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, or more generally to modern thought, character, practice and/or the philosophy/ideology behind.
Modernism or modernist may also refer to:
- Modernism in the Catholic Church, theological opinions expressed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries characterized by a break with the past
- Liberal Christianity, used in connection with the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy
- Modernism (music), change and development in musical language that occurred at or around the turn of the 20th century
- Modern architecture, attempts at the turn of the 20th century to reconcile the principles underlying architectural design with rapid technological advancement and the modernization of society
- Modern art, artistic works produced roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era
- Modernist literature, a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Modernism/modernity, a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1994
- Modernism: A New Decade, a 1998 album by The Style Council
Usage examples of "modernism".
In the context of Islamic traditions, fundamentalism is postmodern insofar as it rejects the tradition of Islamic modernism for which modernity was always overcoded as assimilation or submission to Euro-American hegemony.
Hence its condemnation of classical modernism as a purely Westernizing force.
The cities of modernism were bewildering, full of comings and goings, largely contingent or accidental.
In this way, a climate of opinion formed, in which whatever modernism stood for, it also stood for the opposite.
If modernism was often anti-science, this was because its pessimism was sparked by that same science.
The Neoper-ceptionists regarded themselves as the avant-garde movement of literary modernism and professed an interest in all manner of contemporary European art credos, including Dada and Surrealism.
Yet the conservative reaction to modernism is no less unsuited to modernity, for it has produced a kind of stubborn Luddism.
Freudianity pitted against Jungism, orthodoxy against orthodoxy, and both against the eclectic Modernism which is gradually taking their place.
Discussing Modernism in the Nation, he analyses the difference between the true development of an idea and the mere changing from one idea to another.
He came to his style without them, his modernism had a different nature, a different genesis, different roots.
But the Bauhaus pattern is unequivocal, and despite their ambivalent modernism the framed prints disclose no secrets.
They found it a droll piece: a freak of modernism: the last extravagance of the Cubists: but also it had something of the primitives, of El Greco, too.
And this is where the future is taking us because the secret faith of the twentieth century is not modernism, the secret faith of the twentieth century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock-n-roll and catastrophe theory.
Bruce Sterling's ideas about science fiction fascinated me greatly, if only because he was the one person I could hear talking about science fiction in terms that weren't either warmed-over James Blish and Damon Knight or stolen from the mouldering corpse of Modernism that still stinks to high heaven in the English departments of American universities.