Modernism - Wikipedia Modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, performing arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience [2] Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement
Modernism - New World Encyclopedia Modernism encompasses the works of artists who rebelled against nineteenth-century academic and historicist traditions, believing that earlier aesthetic conventions were becoming outdated
Modernism: A Revolution in Thought and Expression Modernism was a far-reaching cultural movement that transformed the arts, literature, architecture, and philosophy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries It was a radical break from the past, a self-conscious rejection of tradition in favour of new forms of expression
Modernism - Tate Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life
Modernism - Poetry Foundation Many English-language artists, including poets, thought a new approach was needed to capture and comment on this new era, requiring innovation in their own work: the result was called Modernism, the largest, most significant movement of the early 20th century
Introduction: A History of “Modernism” - The Cambridge History of Modernism Howe’s opening essay, “The Culture of Modernism,” radicalizes the meaning of “modernism” as a “catastrophe” that is “unique” in history but, he claims adamantly, has not passed into history: this “catastrophe,” he warrants, is “the experience of our age ”