kids encyclopedia robot

Modernism (disambiguation) facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts


Modernism is a movement in the arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, or more generally to modern thought, character, practice and/or the philosophy/ideology behind these.

Modernism or modernist may also refer to:

  • Modernism in the Catholic Church, theological opinions expressed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries characterized by a break with the past
  • Liberal Christianity, used in connection with the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy
  • Modernism (music), change and development in musical language that occurred at or around the turn of the 20th century
  • Modern architecture, an architectural movement or style based upon new technologies of construction
  • Modern art, artistic works produced roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era
  • Modernist literature, a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Modernist poetry, written, mainly in Europe and North America, between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature
  • Moderne Algebra (1930), first textbook to axiomatically develop groups, rings, and fields
  • Modernism/modernity, a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1994
  • Modernism: A New Decade, a 1998 album by The Style Council
  • "moDernisT", a 2015 remake of the song Tom's Diner
  • Modernism (Islam in Indonesia), a religious movement which puts emphasis on teachings purely derived from the Islamic religious scriptures

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Modernismo para niños

  • Modernisme, a cultural movement associated with the search for Catalan national identity
  • Modernismo, a Spanish-American literary movement
  • Modernity
  • Postmodernism
kids search engine
Modernism (disambiguation) Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.