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modernism

[mod-er-niz-uhm] / ˈmɒd ərˌnɪz əm /


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“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

For example, it had nothing to do with the chance music of John Cage or the meticulously plotted complications of Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter, the American heroes of ’70s modernism.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

Emerging in the late ’60s and hitting its stride by the ’80s, postmodernism is defined as a reaction against that less-is-more, strict-type of modernism that came from Europe.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2026

And, in that half, explored another less knowable side of the moon represented by Richard Strauss’ well-known “Salome,” which helped usher in 20th-century operatic modernism.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2026

Faced with the twin rebellions of dissonant modernism and the mass market, the classical tradition found an ace up its sleeve and played it with impeccable timing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

There he produced a stream of paintings that synthesized Cubism and other European modernisms, mixed in non-Western motifs and mysterious symbols and culminated in his lusty, elegiac German Officer paintings.

From New York Times Jun. 12, 2014

If this were so, the relative rarity of "anachronisms" and of modernisms in language in the Homeric poems is explained.

From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang




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