Look up: Modernism

1. Modernism
   Literary movement that occurred from c.1890 until the beginning of World War II and sought to challenge traditional forms.
   In poetry, the three main exponents of modernism were T.S.Eliot, Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats. Pound was the main promoter of modernism and influenced many poets both in England...
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2. modernism
   [n] - genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres 2. [n] - practices typical of contemporary life or thought
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3. Modernism
   A retrospective general term applied to a wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in literature (and other arts) of the early 20th century including Symbolism, Futurism, Dada, Vorticism, Expressionism, Imagism, and Surrealism, together with the innovations of unaffiliated writers. Chiefly,...
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4. Modernism
   An Art style that breaks with traditional art forms and searches for new modes of expression (early 20th century).
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5. modernism
   In the Church of England, a development of the 20th-century liberal church movement, which attempts to reconsider Christian beliefs in the light of modern scientific theories and historical...
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6. Modernism
   In the field of art the broad movement in Western art, architecture and design which self-consciously rejected the past as a model for the art of the present. Hence the term modernist or modern art. Modernism gathered pace from about 1850. Modernism proposes new forms of art on the grounds that thes...
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7. Modernism
   A design style dating from the 1920s characterised by clean lines and a search for proportion in which form follows function; decoration is minimal. It originated in the Bauhaus School of Art in Germany; Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier were key figures in its development. British Modernism arrived with emigrés from Nazi Germany.
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8. Modernism
   Mod'ern·ism noun 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...
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9. Modernism
   Mod'ern·ism noun Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
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10. modernism
    noun practices typical of contemporary life or thought
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11. modernism
    noun genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
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12. Modernism
    • (n.) Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression. • (n.) 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...
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13. Modernism
    (from the article `Art and Art Exhibitions`) From London and Los Angeles to São Paulo and Herford, Ger., group exhibitions looked back at the triumphs and travails of Modernism. London`s ... Another trend in architecture was a growing interest in many of the masterpieces of the Modernist Period of the 1940s–1960s. The most r...
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14. Modernism
    in Roman Catholic church history, a movement in the last decade of the 19th century and first decade of the 20th that sought to reinterpret ... [6 related articles]
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15. Modernism
    Literary period since the late 19th century when the writers freed themselves from established forms of literature and their restrictions and conventions. Modernism was accompanied by experiments in form and style, e.g. the stream-of-consciousness technique.
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16. modernism
    modernism, in religion, a general movement in the late 19th and 20th cent. that tried to reconcile historical Christianity with the findings of modern science and philosophy. Modernism arose mainly from the application of modern critical methods to the study of the Bible and the history of dogma and...
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17. modernism
    (arts) In the arts, a general term used to describe the 20th century's conscious attempt to break with the artistic traditions of the 19th century, particularly strong in the period between World War I (1914–18) and World War II (1939–45). Modernism is based on a concern with for...
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18. Modernism
    The deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguish many styles in the arts and literature of the late nineteenth and the twentieth century. Modernism refers to this period's interest in new types of paints and other materials, in expressing feelings and ideas, in creating abstractions and fant...
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19. modernism
    Theory and practice in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, which holds that each new generation must build on past styles in new ways or break with the past in order to make the next major historical contribution. Characterized by idealism; seen as "high art," as differentiated from popular ...
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20. Modernism
    `Modernism`, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the `modernist movement`, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western societ...
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21. Modernism
    (Roman Catholicism) `Modernism` refers to theological opinions expressed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but with influence reaching into the 21st century, which are characterized by a break with the past. Catholic modernists form an amorphous group. The term "modernist&qu...
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22. Modernism
    (music) `Modernism in music` is characterized by a desire for or belief in progress and science, surrealism, anti-romanticism, political advocacy, general intellectualism, and/or a breaking with the past or common practice. Defining musical modernism : Musicologist Carl Dahlhaus restricted hi...
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