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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

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

This time along with Rossen Ventzislavov, an educator who brought me out to Woodbury University last spring as a fellow to teach a one-of-a-kind semester on Black modernism in architecture, design and popular culture.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2026

From the point that his “Nude Descending a Staircase” scandalized the American art world in 1913, Duchamp’s influence on modernism was undeniable.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

The strange, passionate marriage of Russian and French modernism that was born at those Trocadero concerts was to turn into something big, noisy and rebellious.

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

"You know that my daughter is young and inexperienced—an impressionable child not sufficiently seasoned in wisdom to repudiate the gauzy lure of dangerous modernisms."

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr




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