"Modernism" is a cultural movement that impacts both the arts and the broader zeitgeist. It is commonly described as a … See more

Modernism developed out of Romanticism's revolt against the effects of the Industrial Revolution and bourgeois values. Graff asserts, "The ground motive of Modernism, was criticism of the nineteenth-century bourgeois s… See more

Out of the collision of ideals derived from Romanticism and an attempt to find a way for knowledge to explain that which was as yet unknown, came the first wave of modernist works in the opening decade of the 20th ce… See more

While The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature states that modernism ended by c. 1939 with regard to British and American literature, "When (if) Modernism petered out and postmodernism began has been contested a… See more

Peter Kalliney suggests that "Modernist concepts, especially aesthetic autonomy, were fundamental to the literature of decolonization in anglophone Africa." In his opinion, Rajat Neogy, Christopher Okigbo, and … See more

By the early 1980s, the Postmodern movement in art and architecture began to establish its position through various conceptual and intermedia formats. Postmodernism in music and literature began to ta… See more

Although artistic modernism tended to reject capitalist values such as consumerism, twentieth century civil society embraced global mass production and the proliferation of cheap and accessible commoditie… See more