modernism
noun
mod·ern·ism
ˈmä-dər-ˌni-zəm 
1
: a practice, usage, or expression peculiar to modern times
such modernisms as "blog," "bromance," and "steampunk"
2
often capitalized
: a tendency in theology to accommodate traditional religious teaching to contemporary thought and especially to devalue supernatural elements
3
: modern artistic or literary philosophy and practice
especially
: a self-conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression
extols the … modernism that laid the foundation of all twentieth-century design —
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Transatlantic modernism speaks to a desire for freedom that couldn’t be held in the continental states – because anti-Black supremacy was also worldwide.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
More than 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings — with the odd photograph thrown in, and a plan to rotate some artworks — trace the flow of ideas from early modernism to the postwar era.
—Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
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Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
More than 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings — with the odd photograph thrown in, and a plan to rotate some artworks — trace the flow of ideas from early modernism to the postwar era.
—Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
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“Modernism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/modernism. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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