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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, performing arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement.

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Worldwide
Years active
c. 1860 to debated

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Modernism, Romanticism, Philosophy and Symbol

Origins and early history

Modernism emerges

After 1945

Modernism in Asia

Modernism in Africa

Relationship with postmodernism

Criticism of late modernity

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Modernism

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Modernism

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related to The late 19th century · 49
Modernism → Art, Arthur Rimbaud, Baudelaire's, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs, Beginning, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Dedekind, Divisionism, Emperor Napoleon III, Enfer, Everdell, Evil, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, France, French, Georges Seurat's, German, Gustave Flaubert, Hell
related to After 1945 · 44
Modernism → American, Among, Anna Akhmatova, Babbitt, Barraqué, Basil Bunting, Beckett, Boulez, Briggflatts, British, British Literature, Charles Olson, Clement Greenberg, Dorothy Richardson, Eliot, Expressionist, Ezra Pound, Godot, Gottfried Benn, Happy Days
related to Modernism in Asia · 35
Modernism → Bungei Jidai, Dada, English, European Cubism, Expressionism, Germany's Neue Sachlichkeit, He, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, However, In, In Japanese, It, Japanese, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kansuke Yamamoto, Kawabata, Kawabata Yasunari, Kenzō Tange, Le Corbusier, Metabolist
related to External links · 33
Modernism → Anthony, Archived, August, Ballard, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Contemporary, December, Denzer, Edwardian Modernists, ISBN, January, June, Malady, Marta, Masters, ModernismModernism Lab, Modernist Studies Association Archived, Newcastle, October, PDF
related to Sources · 33
Modernism → After Babel, Archived, Avant-Gardes, Berman, Chicago, Chicago Press, Eco, Fred, George, Griselda, Illinois Press, Interpreting Serials, John Barth, July, Manchester University, Origins, Orton, Partisans Reviewed, Pollock, Preface
related to After Abstract Expressionism · 31
Modernism → Abstract Expressionism, Alan Saret, Arte Povera, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, By, Clement Greenberg, Colin McCahon, Color, Dan Christensen, Eva Hesse, Howard Hodgkin, In, Jannis Kounellis, Keith Sonnier, Larry Poons, Larry Zox, Lynda Benglis, Mario Merz, Nancy Graves
related to Criticism of late modernity · 26
Modernism → Although, American, Another, Communicative Action, First, For, George Ritzer's The McDonaldization, In, Its Critics, Janet Bennett, Jürgen Habermas, Many, Merging, Modernist, Modernity, Other, Political Theory, Ritzer, Robert Hughes, Second
related to Modernism continues: 1930–1945 · 26
Modernism → Also, America, Arnold Schoenberg, Aron, Associated, Between, Dorothy Parker, Edward Johnston, Electricity, Finnegans Wake, For, Guernica, James Joyce, James Thurber, London Underground, Modern, Moses, North America, One, Pablo Picasso
related to Minimalism · 22
Modernism → Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Expressionist, Agnes Martin, American, Anne Truitt, As, Bauhaus, By, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, In, It, John McCracken, Kazimir Malevich, Minimalism, Piet Mondrian, Post, Prominent, Robert Morris
related to overview · 22
Modernism → According, All, Bolshevism, Eugenics, Expressionism, First World War, From, Futurism, Griffin, Hecatomb, It, Modernists, Nudism, Organic Nationalism, Psychoanalysis, Roger Griffin, Theosophy, Therefore, Utopian, Vitalism

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art modernist new artists works movement painting music first century early world late abstract work also often including modern postmodernism

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ModernismYears activec. 1860 to debated1.00infobox
Modernismis aall-encompassing label for a wide variety of cultural movements0.90text
the Brooklyn Bridgeinstance ofleading to later structures0.80text
Fyodor Dostoevskyinstance ofthough without rejecting the importance of the intellect.Important literary precursors of modernism included esteemed writers0.80text
Franz Lisztinstance ofits origins can be traced back to the work of earlier composers0.80text
Richard Wagnerinstance ofits origins can be traced back to the work of earlier composers0.80text
Gustav Mahlerinstance ofits origins can be traced back to the work of earlier composers0.80text
Richard Straussinstance ofits origins can be traced back to the work of earlier composers0.80text
and Max Reger.In the world of artinstance ofits origins can be traced back to the work of earlier composers0.80text
in the first decade of the 20th centuryinstance ofits origins can be traced back to the work of earlier composers0.80text
young painters such as Pablo Picassoinstance ofits origins can be traced back to the work of earlier composers0.80text

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