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Genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
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modernism
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Word definitions for modernism in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1737, "deviation from the ancient and classical manner" [Johnson, who calls it "a word invented by Swift"], from modern + -ism . From 1830 as "modern ways and styles." Used in theology since 1901. As a movement in the arts (away from classical or traditional ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE aesthetic ▪ In this role they featured centrally as producers, as a reception class, and in the institutions of aesthetic modernism . ▪ Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.