In a nutshell, modernism is a response to modernity. From Wordnik.com. [Modernism Schmodernism « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
Post-modernism is true in seeing that relativism exists. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Salon: “What Good are the Arts” by John Carey: Some musings Part 2] Reference
At the core of that concern about modernism is an ethical crisis. From Wordnik.com. [The Disease of the Modern Era] Reference
Says modernism is not about cosmetics but dealing with real issues. From Wordnik.com. [Auntie Auntie Shame on You] Reference
His post-modernism is pretty unattractive and essentially nihilistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World « PubliCola] Reference
Again and again, the basic principle of modernism is the same: strip and expose. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers of Architectural Positivism] Reference
One of the most common slams against modernism is that it's no good for love songs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Yet another example of an exercise in modernism that should not have left the studio …. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodway Residence by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson] Reference
Keeping that in mind, I think this blend of rustic modernism is quite apparent and successful. From Wordnik.com. [PREFAB FRIDAY: Rocio Romero’s Fish Camp House | Inhabitat] Reference
Icons of Latin American modernism led the sale tonight with strong results for the top three lots, all of which date from the 1940s. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
Sleek modernism is not the driving force, it’s basically a play house for adults. From Wordnik.com. [PREFAB FRIDAY: Rocio Romero’s Fish Camp House | Inhabitat] Reference
In the late 19th and early 20th Century, a movement called modernism emerged within Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through The Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 1 of 6] Reference
Sorry for repeating, I guess that’s why the Toronto neo-modernism is so exclusive of other, its so consensual. From Wordnik.com. [» Toronto’s new-old is the new beautiful • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape] Reference
Moreover, it is worth remembering that a good deal of what is loosely called modernism is in reality very much the reverse. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
The diversity of modernism is extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. ['Modern' architecture can be hard to nail down] Reference
On the other hand, the best recent poetry in my eyes rejects the "modernism" of Pound at least as much as it lionizes it. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Ezra Pound] Reference
Post modernism which is surely the philosophy underpinning flexible learning would say that your realities are all equally valid. From Wordnik.com. [Visualizing Open/Networked Teaching « open thinking] Reference
The whole of what we call 'modernism' is, unfortunately -- and I do say unfortunately -- the best of the art we have in the 20th century. From Wordnik.com. [A Reputation in Music Built] Reference
Yes, post-modernism is reactionary. From Wordnik.com. [A Bland and Deadly Courtesy] Reference
The name "modernism" was not to the liking of the reformers. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
It's amazing what you will find when you Google the definition of "modernism". From Wordnik.com. [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference
My point was that "modernism" actually doesn't exist, that it in fact maybe nothing more than a "western" notion. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The first, "modernism," viewed design through the lens of industry with a focus on functional, mass-produced objects. From Wordnik.com. [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference
In antiquity, "modernism" meant confronting magic and replacing it with the plough, the sword, the house, and the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Architect - Headline News] Reference
Instead of crossing his Rubicon and renouncing modernism, he invented an exaggerated and sinister new kind of modernism!. From Wordnik.com. [RenewAmerica] Reference
I went, and I thought, this is a kind of modernism that I'm not familiar with, a deconstructed, reverse kind of theater. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
With Buddhadeb Bhattacharya asking for one, maybe to flaunt his brand of 'modernism', such policies were unceremoniously discarded. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
Both of these great scholars are masters in understanding the dire threat of "modernism" or superficial understanding of truth and justice. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"modernism" mentioned in it (Revue pratique d'apologetique, IV, p. 578). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
'modernism' is, to all intents and purposes, now irrevocably fixed in time as a style, and not a progressive, evolving movement. From Wordnik.com. [things magazine] Reference
If anything, Atta seemed like a prodigy of Western modernism. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To September 11] Reference
In the arts, the gods of modernism have lost most of their worshipers. From Wordnik.com. [Fanfare For The Common Man] Reference
After limited early success in the official salons, Matisse began to experiment with modernism. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Beautiful Show In The World] Reference
The charming old houses aren't the only endangered species; so are fine examples of 20th-century modernism. From Wordnik.com. [Toward a New New Orleans] Reference
The most famous painters on the social circuit can get tens of thousands of dollars for their tributes to European modernism. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Other Masters'] Reference
The 1920s didn't invent modernism, but it was the decade that tested design's modern ideas and fixed them in the life of this century. From Wordnik.com. [How Yesterday Saw Tomorrow] Reference
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