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modernism
modernism Twentieth-century movement in art, architecture, design and literature that, in general, concentrates on space and form, rather than content or ornamentation. In architecture and design, early influences were Bauhaus (1919–33) and individuals such as Walter Gropius and Mies van de... Read more
Jehovah
Jehovah , modern reconstruction of the ancient Hebrew ineffable name of God ( Yahweh ). ... Read more
modern architecture
modern architecture new architectural style that emerged in many Western countries in the decade after World War I. It was based on the "rational" use of modern materials, the principles of functionalist planning, and the rejection of historical precedent and ornament. This style has been gener... Read more
modern dance
modern dance serious theatrical dance forms that are distinct from both ballet and the show dancing of the musical comedy or variety stage. The Beginnings of Modern Dance Developed in the 20th cent., primarily in the United States and Germany, modern dance resembles modern art and music... Read more
Colchis
Colchis , ancient country on the eastern shore of the Black Sea and in the Caucasus region. Centered about the fertile valley of the Phasis River (the modern Rion), Colchis corresponds to the present-day region of Mingrelia in Georgia. In Greek legend it was the home of Aeëtes and Medea, the ... Read more
modern art
modern art art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture ). Nearly every phase of modern a... Read more
Adramyttium
Adramyttium , place, the modern Edremit, NW Turkey. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul's ship was built here. ... Read more
Jahve
Jahve   Jahveh, or Jahweh , modern reconstructions of the ancient Hebrew name of God ( Yahweh ), which is traditionally not pronounced. ... Read more
Thebez
Thebez , in the Bible, fortified town where Abimelech was killed, NE of Shechem. It is the modern Tubas (West Bank). ... Read more
Hove
Hove , city (1991 pop. 65,587), East Sussex, SE England. It is a modern residential seaside resort. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Post-modernism"

modernism
Book article from: World Encyclopedia modernism Twentieth-century movement...Gropius and Mies van der Rohe . Modernism developed the use of new building...precisely, the echoes of literary modernism can still be heard in late...futurism ; International style ; post-modernism ; suprematism...
post-modernism
Book article from: World Encyclopedia post-modernism Originally an architectural movement that...restricted to architecture. In literature, post-modernism is characterized by works that...fictionality. In the early 1980s, the concept of post-modernism exploded into popular culture...
Michael Graves
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...instrumental in the emergence of Post-Modernism in the mid-1970s. His classicizing...Warren, New Jersey, 1977). Post-Modernism Becomes Controversial Michael...recognition as a leading figure in Post-Modernism, but not without...
Luis Barragán
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...architecture with international modernism. Barrag á n has been...Surrealist, a Minimalist, and a Post-Modernist, yet his works...to reconcile international modernism with the Mexican regional styles...abhorrence to the glassiness of modernism and his devotion to the Mexican...
English architecture
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...the Great Exhibition (1851) paved the way for modernism . William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement...Voysey. In the late 20th century, the movements of modernism and post-modernism , in particular the work of Richard Rogers and Norman...
postmodernism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...cent. movements that constituted modernism. The term has become ubiquitous...Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986); C. Jencks, What is Post-Modernism? (1986); S. Gaggi, Modern...
Venturi, Robert
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...He argued that architectural modernism was banal. Venturi's stress...contextual architecture heralded post-modernism . His publications include Complexity...architecture is contrasted with the post-modern approach. His buildings...
American literature
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Literature of the immediate post-Civil War period is characterized...viewed as the archetype of high modernism . Wallace Stevens and William...artistic expression characterize post-war literature and drama...Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath . Post-modernism informed the work...
Adonis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the most prominent Arab writers in the post-World War II period. Born in January...about poetry, creativity, change, and modernism among both his contemporaries and the...rebellion, rejection, radical writing, and modernism (expressed in Arabic by the word hadatha...
Farrell, Terry
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Farrell, Terry (1938– ) British post-modern architect known for his witty imagery and anthropomorphism. His...of buildings by introducing variations in colour and banding. See also post-modernism

Dictionary entries related to "Post-modernism"

Modernism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Modernism Modernism is the generally accepted term to describe...demarcation by date, and although the term post-modern is increasingly used to describe...placed on sexuality. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism...
Post-Modernism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Post-Modernism. Style or styles in architecture and the decorative...inhabitants refused to live there any more. Essentially, Post-Modernism (known variously as P-M , PoMo , or the Post ) has been connected with a loss of faith in what were...
post-modernism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology post-modernism There is some consensus about what this...reading of a further selection of texts by post-structuralists such as Jacques Lacan...capitalist societies had been living in a post-modern world since at least the early...
Postmodernism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...the highbrow seriousness of modernism in favour of a more eclectic...on the subject, ‘Post-Modernism is fundamentally...Charles Jencks, What is Post-Modernism? , 1986). The...clear about the ways in which Post modernism can be regarded as...
Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...before officially taking up his post as head of the Department of...1934 Johnson gave up his MoMA post to begin a short-lived career...connection between Power and Modernism, Johnson himself said that...described variously as the first Post-Modern building, as ‘...
Modernist Painting
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...using art to conceal art. Modernism used art to call attention...Master or Modernist, but Modernism imposes it as the only and necessary way, and Modernism's success in doing so...soon to label “ Post-Painterly Abstraction...
Stern, Robert Arthur Morton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...setting up his own office in 1977. He has been seen as one of the greatest influences in Post-Modernism and a formidable critic of International Modernism . Advocating an architecture of associations, prompting mnemonic perceptions, and firmly...
Venturi, Robert Charles
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...x2013; ). American Post-Modern architect. He set up...the blandness of International Modernism (getting in a dig at Mies van...have been landed with the label of Post-Modernism , they have vehemently denied they...
Ornamentalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Ornamentalism. Revival of architectural ornament marking a reaction against the so-called Machine Aesthetic of International Modernism from the 1960s. It was one of the many aspects of Post-Modernism . Bibliography Brolin (1985); J&C (1983)
Critical Regionalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...styles or a humbler vernacular type of building. In essence, he sought the deconstruction of global Modernism , criticized post -Modernism for reducing architecture to a mere ‘communicative or instrumental sign’, and proposed...

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Selling Modernism.(Review)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Prophet in English and American Modernism. Columbia: University of...Lawrence. 1998. Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public...moment--spanning roughly the post-war years to the mid-1960s...perhaps most glaringly m "post-modern" efforts to get beyond...
An obituary for modernism
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...C. ALTSCHULER Jerusalem Post 02-22-2008 Headline: An obituary for modernism Byline: GLENN C. ALTSCHULER...February 22, 2008 -- Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From...philosophy and aesthetics called "modernism." More a mind- set than...
Modernism - Dada - Postmodernism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Modernism-- Dada-- Postmodernism...eleven of his main essays on Modernism and Dada published over the...Dada as a major staging-post between Modernism and postmodernism...chapter, where the treatment of post modernism is substantially...
Modernism in the Visual Arts.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Modern Age; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Episodes from a History of Modernism, by T.J. Clark, New Haven...hundred-year history of modernism in the visual arts, beginning...Clark is a respected scholar of post-modern theory, Chancellor...is"--to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism...
Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism...David Kadlec's Mosaic Modernism offers a subtle, thought...above all taking to task post-structuralism for its projection...positivist, it challenges post-structuralism's tendency...
Shock seekers.(Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/10/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...A's. Whatever it is, modernism is something more than a...As Gay notes early on, modernism, like pornography, is a...prudential plural"--modernisms--but rejected that pusillanimous...as well. My point is that Modernism: The Lure of Heresy is one...culture was entering a "post-Christian ...
ADORNO AND THE SEMANTICS OF MODERNISM.(Theodor W. Adorno)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...viewed as a transformation of modernism rather than its antithesis) is that modernism is a multifaceted phenomenon...is as much a rereading of modernism as its replacement. From...material by examining the post-serial music of Brian Ferneyhough...
A study in modernism the group of seven as an unexpectedly typical case
Magazine article from: Journal of Canadian Studies; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...to the tradition of European modernism. The Group were dedicated...of the past. The advent of modernism in Canadian art was loudly...What was it about Canadian modernism that so enraged Charlesworth...Manet, and ending with the post-war or late-modernism period...
Mechanization, materialism, and modernism in Faulkner's Flags in the Dust.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...in the emergence of Southern modernism. William Faulkner's first...by dramatizing the South's post-World War I transition from...demonstrates the materialization of modernism in the South. Scholars generally...infrastructure) increase in post-World War I Jefferson, family...
MODERNISM AND THE CITY OF LIGHT
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 3/10/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...County, NJ) 03-10-2000 MODERNISM AND THE CITY OF LIGHT -- ONE...What was the beginning of modernism? Was it with the post-impressionists -- Cezanne...there's no question that modernism was born in Paris. The modern...