Modernism
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Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
All labels observed (19)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modernism canonical | 1,060 |
| modernism | 34 |
| European modernism | 27 |
| American modernism | 14 |
| Modern art | 7 |
| European Modernism | 4 |
| Anglo-American modernism | 2 |
| French modernism | 2 |
| Modernist literature | 2 |
| American Modernism | 1 |
| High modernism | 1 |
| Modernism (influence) | 1 |
| Modernist era | 1 |
| Modernist poetry | 1 |
| Modernista literature | 1 |
| Russian modernism | 1 |
| early modernism | 1 |
| literary modernism | 1 |
| მოდერნიზმი | 1 |
Statements (118)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architectural movement
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art movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ design movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bauhaus movement
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Cubism ⓘ Dada ⓘ Expressionism ⓘ Futurism ⓘ Imagism ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ
surface form:
Symbolism (literature)
Vorticism ⓘ abstraction ⓘ avant‑garde ⓘ collage techniques ⓘ free verse ⓘ functionalism in architecture ⓘ international style ⓘ montage in film ⓘ nonlinear narrative ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
"make it new"
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autonomy of art ⓘ form follows function ⓘ reduction to essentials ⓘ rejection of ornament ⓘ truth to materials ⓘ |
| endTime | mid 20th century ⓘ |
| field |
architecture
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design ⓘ film ⓘ literature ⓘ music ⓘ photography ⓘ theatre ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| floruit | early 20th century ⓘ |
| followedBy | postmodernism ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ global ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacteristic |
alienation as a theme
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break with academic traditions ⓘ embrace of innovation ⓘ emphasis on originality ⓘ experimentation with form ⓘ focus on subjectivity ⓘ formal minimalism in some strands ⓘ fragmentation of narrative and form ⓘ interest in new technologies ⓘ interest in the unconscious ⓘ rejection of traditional forms ⓘ self‑reflexivity ⓘ urban themes ⓘ use of abstraction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
avant‑garde movements
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high modernism ⓘ late modernism ⓘ literary modernism ⓘ modernist architecture ⓘ modernist cinema ⓘ modernist design ⓘ modernist literature ⓘ modernist music ⓘ modernist painting ⓘ modernist photography ⓘ modernist sculpture ⓘ modernist theatre ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crisis of representation
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dislocation and exile ⓘ inner consciousness ⓘ technology and modern life ⓘ time and memory ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary architecture
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contemporary art ⓘ contemporary literature ⓘ graphic design ⓘ industrial design ⓘ postmodernism ⓘ urban planning ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Freudian psychoanalysis
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Industrial Revolution ⓘ Marxist theory ⓘ Nietzschean philosophy ⓘ World War I ⓘ World War II ⓘ advances in science and technology ⓘ Impressionism ⓘ
surface form:
impressionism
post‑impressionism ⓘ rapid urbanization ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| notableFigure |
Arnold Schoenberg
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Bertolt Brecht ⓘ Ezra Pound ⓘ Franz Kafka ⓘ Gertrude Stein ⓘ Igor Stravinsky ⓘ James Joyce ⓘ Le Corbusier ⓘ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ⓘ Marcel Duchamp ⓘ Marcel Proust ⓘ Pablo Picasso ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ Virginia Woolf ⓘ Walter Gropius ⓘ Wassily Kandinsky ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Victorian aesthetics
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academic art ⓘ historicist styles ⓘ naturalism (as dominant norm) ⓘ realism (as dominant norm) ⓘ |
| periodIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| startTime | late 19th century ⓘ |
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