Definition of Modernist. Meaning of Modernist. Synonyms of Modernist

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Definition of Modernist

Modernist
Modernist Mod"ern*ist, n. [Cf. F. moderniste.] One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Modernist
Modernist Mod"ern*ist, n. An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics.

Meaning of Modernist from wikipedia

- ****ction to "Make it New" was the touchstone of the movement's approach. Modernist innovations included abstract art, the stream of consciousness novel,...
- Literary modernism, or modernist literature, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterized by a self-conscious separation...
- Clement Greenberg, for instance, called Immanuel Kant "the first real Modernist" but also drew a distinction: "The Enlightenment criticized from the outside...
- Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier...
- form. In 1949, the term was used to describe a dissatisfaction with the modernist architectural movement known as the International Style. Postmodernism...
- Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking is a 2011 cookbook by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet. The book is an encyclopedia and...
- Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number...
- Modernist theatre was part of twentieth-century theatre relating to the art and philosophy of modernism. Long Day's Journey into Night Waiting for Godot...
- The fundamentalist–modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States...
- is a list of major poets of the Modernist poetry. Modernist poetry Modernism Modernist literature List of modernist writers List of poetry groups and...