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modernism
has definitions from the field of fine art
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[ noun ] (fine art) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)To the Traditionalists , it was a brilliant satire on modernism ; to the Neo Classicists , it was a challenge to the pre-war world . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)He and also Mr._Cowley and Mr._Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many_of us to read into our authors - Nathaniel_Hawthorne , for_example , and Herman_Melville - protests against modernism , material progress , and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the quality of being current or of the present
Examples : "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" Related terms |
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[ noun ] practices typical of contemporary life or thought
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