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modernism

[mod-er-niz-uhm] / ˈmɒd ərˌnɪz əm /


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Icons of Japanese modernism are being demolished one after the other often to make way for larger, more profitable structures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

With the rise of modernism, Ives’s highly allusive and often experimental music found a suitable audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Tucked behind mature hedging on one of Malibu’s most desirable streets, this exquisite estate presents a striking blend of California modernism and rustic refinement,” the listing noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

“So are people that have been obsessing on modern art and modernism all their lives — they’re gonna be confounded by it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Given that Russia was at this point at the very vanguard of modernism it was a bitter pill to swallow, and understandably so.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The score for “X” traffics in multiple modernisms.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

Instead, they look to South America and Concrete art, with its cross-fertilization of imported European and indigenous modernisms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018

The view that there were many modernisms is now commonplace.

From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017

I do feel that there's not much happiness in these so-called modernisms, but don't let's spoil our few minutes....

From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison


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