modernism
Sign in to saveModernism 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. Modernism centered around beliefs in a "growing alienation" from prevailing "morality, optimism, and convention" and a desire to change how "human beings in a society interact and live together".
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Modernism was an early 20th-century movement across literature, art, music, and other fields that broke from tradition by emphasizing experimentation and subjective experience instead of conventional forms. It arose from artists and thinkers who felt alienated from mainstream morality and optimism, and who wanted to fundamentally reshape how society and human relationships worked.
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- Clockwise: 1. Pablo Picasso, (1907). This Proto-Cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting. 2. Constantin Brâncuși, Fish (1926), 3. Bauhaus building by Walter Gropius, (1925–1926) (Germany). The Bauhaus style and school were instrumental to modernist architecture. 4. Portrait of American dancers Martha Graham and Bertram Ross in Visionary Recital (1961); image by photographer Carl Van Vechten
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- c.1860 to debated
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- Worldwide
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- Modernism
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37 sectionsContents
- Overview and definition
- Modernism, Romanticism, Philosophy and Symbol
- Origins and early history
- Romanticism and realism
- The early 19th century
- The late 19th century
- Modernism emerges
- 1901 to 1930
- Modernism continues: 1930–1945
- Attacks on early modernism
- After 1945
- Theatre of the Absurd
- Pollock and abstract influences
- International figures from British art
- After Abstract Expressionism
- Pop art
- Minimalism
- Minimal music
- Postminimalism
- Collage, assemblage, installations
- Neo-Dada
- Performance and happenings
- Intermedia and multimedia
- Fluxus
- Avant-garde popular music
- Late period
- Modern architecture
- Modernism in Asia
- Modernism in Africa
- Relationship with postmodernism
- Criticism of late modernity
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
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. Modernism centered around beliefs in a "growing alienation" from prevailing "morality, optimism, and convention" and a desire to change how "human beings in a society interact and live together".
The modernist movement emerged during the late 19th century in response to significant changes in Western culture, including secularization and the growing influence of science. It is characterized by a self-conscious rejection of tradition and the search for newer means of cultural expression. Modernism was influenced by widespread technological innovation, industrialization, and urbanization, as well as the cultural and geopolitical shifts that occurred after World War I. Artistic movements and techniques associated with modernism include abstract art, literary stream-of-consciousness, cinematic montage, musical atonality and twelve-tonality, modern dance, modernist architecture, and urban planning.