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Modernism was the cultural revolution of the 20th century, as important to those times as Romanticism was to the 19th century and the Enlightenment was to the 18th. But when we describe something today as "modern," are we referring to that groundbreaking, no-nonsense machine-age style--the modernism of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Piet Mondrian and Charles and Ray Eames--or do we simply mean "contemporary"?

The word modern, according to Janson's History of Art (sixth edition), "has its origins in the early medieval modernus, meaning that which is present, of our time ...

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