Similar words: postmodernism, modernise, modernisation, modernize, modernity, modernization, modern, postmodern. Meaning: ['mɑdərnɪzm /'mɒdn-] 
n. 1. genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres 2. the quality of being current or of the present 3. practices typical of contemporary life or thought.
n. 1. genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres 2. the quality of being current or of the present 3. practices typical of contemporary life or thought. 
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1 Modernism seeks to find new forms of expression and rejects traditional or accepted ideas.
2 There is voluminous literature on modernism and post-modernism.
3 Modernism was the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity.
4 Modernism is usually explained in relationship to painting.
5 Photography was a major carrier and shaper of modernism.
6 The greatest legacy for modernism has been the construction of the notion of the artist-as-genius.
7 Henceforth modernism would be the star of western art while traditionalism was increasingly ignored.
8 Mainstream modernism has often measured its modernity in terms of how far it dispenses with nature / naturalism.
9 Hence we have moved from modernism in content to modernism in form.
10 Needless to say, nothing was officially published on modernism in those years, apart from paranoid diatribes in the press.
11 The now voluminous literature on modernism and postmodernism has been dominated by philosophers and modern language theorists and historians of architecture.
12 Hence Paris modernism was able to persist as a vital and radical force.
13 By the postwar period,(www.Sentencedict.com) modernism had become part of art history.
14 Modernism has projected a compelling image of the artist in a state of splendid isolation.
15 Storni used earlier poetic movements, namely Romanticism and modernism, as models for her poetry.
16 What did differ, however, was the triumph of modernism in the West.
17 Berlin modernism, meanwhile, was an altogether different and surely stranger brew.
18 The building's design is an interesting blend of traditionalism and modernism.
19 He was forcing the State to enthrone a particular brand of modernism.
20 Free jazz has been described as the last outpost of modernism.
21 It allows for artists and historians to explore in the wider margins works and strategies neglected or dismissed by modernism.
22 I argue along with T. J. Clark that Parisian modernism is most distinctive in terms of the disruptive force.
23 Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism.
24 The first of these is devoted to systematic consideration of what modernism is.
25 In this role they featured centrally as producers, as a reception class, and in the institutions of aesthetic modernism.
26 Pierre Bourdieu has also significantly not participated in the debates on modernism and postmodernism.
27 Abstract expressionism is commonly identified as the pinnacle of modernism.
28 I then turn to draw on a variety of sources to investigate Berlin modernism in greater detail and depth.
29 The railway industry had a propaganda purpose in the streamlining of outlines and in the new doctrine of modernism in these years.
30 These preferences, of course[Sentencedict.com], placed the Wiener Werkstatte squarely in the vanguard of Modernism.
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