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.
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| 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 (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
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| field |
architecture
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design → film → literature → music → photography → theatre → visual arts → |
| floruit |
early 20th century
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| followedBy |
postmodernism
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| 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 → 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
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| startTime |
late 19th century
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