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modernism

[mod-er-niz-uhm] / ˈmɒd ərˌnɪz əm /


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Edwards has harnessed the language of European modernism to tell a singularly, painfully American story.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 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

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

I think he's writing about the long poem after modernism or something like that.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz

The score for “X” traffics in multiple modernisms.

From New York Times May 12, 2022

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

It has, however, been somewhat carelessly done, for several modernisms have crept into the language.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas




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