Table of Contents
844 relations: A Season in Hell, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Abstract art, Abstract expressionism, Abstract illusionism, Abstraction, Acoustical engineering, Action painting, Ad Reinhardt, Adolf Hitler, After Babel, Age of Enlightenment, Agnes Martin, Al Hansen, Al Held, Alan Saret, Alban Berg, Albert Camus, Albert Gleizes, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alex Katz, Alexander Stoddart, Alexander Vvedensky (poet), Alfred Döblin, Alfred Jarry, Alison Knowles, All Quiet on the Western Front, Allan Kaprow, American Gothic, Ancient Greece, André Breton, Andreas Huyssen, Andy Warhol, Anna Akhmatova, Anne Truitt, Anthony Caro, Anthropocentrism, Anti-art, Antisemitism, Anton Webern, Antonin Artaud, Antonio Gramsci, Apotheosis, Archetype, Archie Rand, Architect, Armory Show, Arnold Schoenberg, Arnolt Bronnen, Arshile Gorky, ... Expand index (794 more) »
- Theories of aesthetics
A Season in Hell
A Season in Hell (Une saison en enfer) is an extended poem in prose written and published in 1873 by French writer Arthur Rimbaud.
See Modernism and A Season in Hell
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte) was painted from 1884 to 1886 and is Georges Seurat's most famous work.
See Modernism and A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Abstract art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Modernism and Abstract art are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Abstract art
Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the immediate aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists. Modernism and Abstract expressionism are modern art.
See Modernism and Abstract expressionism
Abstract illusionism
Abstract illusionism is a name coined by art historian and critic Barbara Rose in 1967.
See Modernism and Abstract illusionism
Abstraction
Abstraction is a process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal (real or concrete) signifiers, first principles, or other methods.
Acoustical engineering
Acoustical engineering (also known as acoustic engineering) is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration.
See Modernism and Acoustical engineering
Action painting
Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. Modernism and Action painting are modern art.
See Modernism and Action painting
Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades.
See Modernism and Ad Reinhardt
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
See Modernism and Adolf Hitler
After Babel
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (1975; second edition 1992; third edition 1998) is a linguistics book by literary critic George Steiner, in which the author deals with the "Babel problem" of multiple languages.
Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
See Modernism and Age of Enlightenment
Agnes Martin
Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was an American abstract painter known for her minimalist style and abstract expressionism.
See Modernism and Agnes Martin
Al Hansen
Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen (5 October 1927 – 20 June 1995) was an American artist.
Al Held
Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter.
Alan Saret
Alan Saret (born 1944, New York City) is an American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, best known for his Postminimalism wire sculptures and drawings.
Alban Berg
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist.
See Modernism and Albert Camus
Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes (8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.
See Modernism and Albert Gleizes
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean and French avant-garde filmmaker.
See Modernism and Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Alexander Stoddart
Alexander "Sandy" Stoddart (born 1959) is a Scottish sculptor, who, since 2008, has been the Queen's Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland and is now the King's Sculptor in Ordinary.
See Modernism and Alexander Stoddart
Alexander Vvedensky (poet)
Alexander Ivanovich Vvedensky (Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Введе́нский; 6 December 1904 – 19 December 1941) was a Russian poet and dramatist with formidable influence on "unofficial" and avant-garde art during and after the times of the Soviet Union.
See Modernism and Alexander Vvedensky (poet)
Alfred Döblin
Bruno Alfred Döblin (10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
See Modernism and Alfred Döblin
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the Theatre of the absurd In the 1950s and 1960s He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.
See Modernism and Alfred Jarry
Alison Knowles
Alison Knowles (born 1933) is an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications.
See Modernism and Alison Knowles
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front (lit) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war.
See Modernism and All Quiet on the Western Front
Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist.
See Modernism and Allan Kaprow
American Gothic
American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
See Modernism and American Gothic
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
See Modernism and Ancient Greece
André Breton
André Robert Breton (19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism.
See Modernism and André Breton
Andreas Huyssen
Andreas Huyssen (born 1942) is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he taught beginning in 1986.
See Modernism and Andreas Huyssen
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenkoa; Ánna Andríyivna Horénko,.
See Modernism and Anna Akhmatova
Anne Truitt
Anne Truitt (March 16, 1921December 23, 2004), born Anne Dean, was an American sculptor of the mid-20th century.
Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.
See Modernism and Anthony Caro
Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entity on the planet.
See Modernism and Anthropocentrism
Anti-art
Anti-art is a loosely used term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general. Modernism and Anti-art are modern art.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.
See Modernism and Antisemitism
Anton Webern
Anton Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
See Modernism and Anton Webern
Antonin Artaud
Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French artist who worked across a variety of media.
See Modernism and Antonin Artaud
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Francesco Gramsci (22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician.
See Modernism and Antonio Gramsci
Apotheosis
Apotheosis, also called divinization or deification, is the glorification of a subject to divine levels and, commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in the likeness of a deity.
Archetype
The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.
Archie Rand
Archie Rand (born 1949) is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.
Armory Show
The 1913 Armory Show, also known as the International Exhibition of Modern Art, was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors. Modernism and Armory Show are modern art.
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.
See Modernism and Arnold Schoenberg
Arnolt Bronnen
Arnolt Bronnen (19 August 1895 – 12 October 1959) was an Austrian playwright and director.
See Modernism and Arnolt Bronnen
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky (born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism.
See Modernism and Arshile Gorky
Art for art's sake
Art for art's sake—the usual English rendering of, a French slogan from the latter half of the 19th century—is a phrase that expresses the philosophy that 'true' art is utterly independent of any and all social values and utilitarian function, be that didactic, moral, or political. Modernism and art for art's sake are aesthetics.
See Modernism and Art for art's sake
Art movement
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years. Modernism and art movement are art movements.
See Modernism and Art movement
Art of Europe
The art of Europe, also known as Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe.
See Modernism and Art of Europe
Art of This Century gallery
The Art of This Century gallery was opened by Peggy Guggenheim at 30 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City on October 20, 1942.
See Modernism and Art of This Century gallery
Art+Auction
Art+Auction is a monthly art magazine published in New York City by Louise Blouin Media.
Arte Povera
Arte Povera (literally "poor art") was an art movement that took place between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in major cities throughout Italy and above all in Turin. Modernism and arte Povera are art movements and modern art.
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
See Modernism and Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.
See Modernism and Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.
See Modernism and Arthur Schopenhauer
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music.
Ashgate Publishing
Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom).
See Modernism and Ashgate Publishing
Atonality
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
See Modernism and Attack on Pearl Harbor
August Macke
August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter.
See Modernism and August Macke
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.
See Modernism and August Strindberg
Australian modernism
Australian modernism, similar to European and American modernism, was a social, political and cultural movement that was a reaction to rampant industrialisation, associated moral panic of modernity and the death and trauma of the World Wars.
See Modernism and Australian modernism
Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. Modernism and avant-garde are modern art.
Avant-Garde and Kitsch
"Avant-Garde and Kitsch" is the title of a 1939 essay by Clement Greenberg, first published in the Partisan Review, in which he claimed that avant-garde and modernist art was a means to resist the "dumbing down" of culture caused by consumerism.
See Modernism and Avant-Garde and Kitsch
Avant-pop
Avant-pop is popular<!--- Do not change to "pop", per source, "By this I mean a form of popular music that is self-consciously experimental, new, and distinct from existing forms..." ---> music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter.
See Modernism and Édouard Manet
Éliane Radigue
Éliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French electronic music composer.
See Modernism and Éliane Radigue
Barbara Rose
Barbara Ellen Rose (June 11, 1936December 25, 2020) was an American art historian, art critic, curator and college professor.
See Modernism and Barbara Rose
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist.
See Modernism and Barnett Newman
Barry Le Va
Barry Edward Le Va (December 28, 1941 – January 24, 2021) was an American sculptor and installation artist.
Basil Bunting
Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English.
See Modernism and Basil Bunting
Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country (Euskadi; País Vasco), also called the Basque Autonomous Community, is an autonomous community in northern Spain.
See Modernism and Basque Country (autonomous community)
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. Modernism and Bauhaus are art movements and modern art.
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist.
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.
See Modernism and Beat Generation
Belvedere (fort)
The Forte di Belvedere or Fortezza di Santa Maria in San Giorgio del Belvedere (often called simply Belvedere) is a fortification in Florence, Italy.
See Modernism and Belvedere (fort)
Ben Day process
The Ben Day process is a printing and photoengraving technique for producing areas of gray or (with four-color printing) various colors by using fine patterns of ink on the paper.
See Modernism and Ben Day process
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist.
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
See Modernism and Bertolt Brecht
Billy Klüver
Johan Wilhelm Klüver (November 11, 1927 – January 10, 2004) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology.
See Modernism and Billy Klüver
Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
See Modernism and Bloomsbury Publishing
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
Bombay Progressive Artists' Group
The Progressive Artists' Group (PAG), was a group of modern artists, mainly based in Bombay, from its formation in 1947. Modernism and Bombay Progressive Artists' Group are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Bombay Progressive Artists' Group
Bombing of Guernica
On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War.
See Modernism and Bombing of Guernica
Book series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.
Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
Brice Marden
Nicholas Brice Marden Jr. (October 15, 1938 – August 9, 2023) was an American artist generally described as minimalist, although his work has roots in abstract expressionism, color field painting.
See Modernism and Brice Marden
Briggflatts
Briggflatts is a long poem by Basil Bunting published in 1966.
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
See Modernism and Brooklyn Bridge
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist.
See Modernism and Bruce Nauman
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
Canvas
Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes.
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
Carl Andre
Carl Andre (September 16, 1935 – January 24, 2024) was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures.
Carl Emil Schorske
Carl Emil Schorske (March 15, 1915 – September 13, 2015), known professionally as Carl E. Schorske, was an American cultural historian and professor at Princeton University.
See Modernism and Carl Emil Schorske
Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.
See Modernism and Carl Van Vechten
Carlo Carrà
Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century.
Carlo Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (between 8 March 1566 and 30 March 1566 – 8 September 1613) was an Italian nobleman and composer.
See Modernism and Carlo Gesualdo
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender.
See Modernism and Carolee Schneemann
Carpenter Gothic
Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters.
See Modernism and Carpenter Gothic
Catherine de Zegher
Catherine de Zegher (born Marie-Catherine Alma Gladys de Zegher Groningen, April 14, 1955) is a Belgian curator and a modern and contemporary art historian.
See Modernism and Catherine de Zegher
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.
See Modernism and Centre Pompidou
Chamber Symphony No. 2 (Schoenberg)
Chamber Symphony No.
See Modernism and Chamber Symphony No. 2 (Schoenberg)
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator.
See Modernism and Charles Baudelaire
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
See Modernism and Charles Darwin
Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod (17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer.
See Modernism and Charles Gounod
Charles Olson
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets.
See Modernism and Charles Olson
Charlotte Moorman
Madeline Charlotte Moorman (November 18, 1933 – November 8, 1991) was an American cellist, performance artist, and advocate for avant-garde music.
See Modernism and Charlotte Moorman
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
Christopher Morley
Christopher Darlington Morley (May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.
See Modernism and Christopher Morley
Christopher Okigbo
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (16 August 1932 – 1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra.
See Modernism and Christopher Okigbo
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others.
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects.
See Modernism and Claes Oldenburg
Classical radicalism
Radicalism (from French radical) was a political movement representing the leftward flank of liberalism during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and a precursor to social liberalism, social democracy, civil libertarianism, and modern progressivism.
See Modernism and Classical radicalism
Claude Debussy
(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group.
See Modernism and Claude Debussy
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
See Modernism and Claude Monet
Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.
See Modernism and Claudio Monteverdi
Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist aesthetician.
See Modernism and Clement Greenberg
Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II.
See Modernism and Clyfford Still
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Colin McCahon
Colin John McCahon (1August 191927May 1987) was a New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text.
See Modernism and Colin McCahon
Collage
Collage (from the coller, "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Color field
Color field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Modernism and Color field are art movements and modern art.
Computer art
Computer art is art in which computers play a role in the production or display of the artwork.
See Modernism and Computer art
Conceptions of God
Conceptions of God in classical theist, monotheist, pantheist, and panentheist traditions – or of the supreme deity in henotheistic religions – can extend to various levels of abstraction.
See Modernism and Conceptions of God
Conceptual art
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work are prioritized equally to or more than traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.
See Modernism and Conceptual art
Concrete poetry
Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance.
See Modernism and Concrete poetry
Consonance and dissonance
In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.
See Modernism and Consonance and dissonance
Constantine P. Cavafy
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (Κωνσταντίνος ΠέτρουΚαβάφης; 29 April (17 April, OS), 1863 – 29 April 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C.
See Modernism and Constantine P. Cavafy
Constructivism (art)
Constructivism is an early twentieth-century art movement founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Modernism and Constructivism (art) are architectural styles, art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Constructivism (art)
Consumerism
Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.
Contemporary architecture
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. Modernism and Contemporary architecture are architectural styles.
See Modernism and Contemporary architecture
Contemporary art
Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, and it generally refers to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Modernism and Contemporary art are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Contemporary art
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day.
See Modernism and Contemporary classical music
Contemporary French literature
This article is about French literature from the year 2000 to the present day.
See Modernism and Contemporary French literature
Contemporary literature
Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history.
See Modernism and Contemporary literature
Convention (norm)
A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, social norms, or other criteria, often taking the form of a custom.
See Modernism and Convention (norm)
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
See Modernism and Crime and Punishment
Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture. Modernism and Cubism are art movements and modern art.
Cultural expressions
Cultural expressions are creative manifestations of the cultural identities of their authors.
See Modernism and Cultural expressions
Cy Twombly
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer.
D. H. Lawrence
Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.
See Modernism and D. H. Lawrence
Dada
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917. Modernism and Dada are art movements and modern art.
Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen, (October 6, 1942 – January 20, 2007) was an American abstract painter He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color field painting, and Abstract expressionism.
See Modernism and Dan Christensen
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.
Dancer in a Café
Dancer in a Café (also known as Danseuse au café or Au Café Concert and Danseuse) is an oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger.
See Modernism and Dancer in a Café
Daniil Kharms
Daniil Ivanovich Kharms (Дании́л Ива́нович Хармс; – 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.
See Modernism and Daniil Kharms
Das Kapital
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Das Kapital.), also known as Capital and Das Kapital, is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy and critique of political economy written by Karl Marx, published as three volumes in 1867, 1885, and 1894.
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.
See Modernism and David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Hockney
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer.
See Modernism and David Hockney
David Jones (artist-poet)
Walter David Jones CH, CBE (1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was a British painter and modernist poet.
See Modernism and David Jones (artist-poet)
David Tudor
David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.
De Stijl
De Stijl (Dutch for "The Style"), incorporating the ideas of Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden, consisting of artists and architects. Modernism and De Stijl are architectural styles, art movements and modern art.
Deborah Hay
Deborah Hay (born 1941) is an American choreographer, dancer, dance theorist, and author working in the field of experimental postmodern dance.
Decadence
The word decadence refers to a late 19th century movement emphasizing the need for sensationalism, egocentricity; bizarre, artificial, perverse, and exotic sensations and experiences. Modernism and decadence are art movements and modern art.
Decolonization
independence. Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas.
See Modernism and Decolonization
Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning.
See Modernism and Deconstruction
Dedekind cut
In mathematics, Dedekind cuts, named after German mathematician Richard Dedekind (but previously considered by Joseph Bertrand), are а method of construction of the real numbers from the rational numbers.
See Modernism and Dedekind cut
Degenerate art
Degenerate art (Entartete Kunst was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. Modernism and Degenerate art are modern art.
See Modernism and Degenerate art
Degenerate Art exhibition
The Degenerate Art exhibition (Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst") was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. Modernism and Degenerate Art exhibition are modern art.
See Modernism and Degenerate Art exhibition
Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of artists and a designation by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc for their exhibition and publication activities, in which both artists acted as sole editors in the almanac of the same name (first published in mid-May 1912).
See Modernism and Der Blaue Reiter
Dick Higgins
Dick Higgins (15 March 1938 – 25 October 1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and community).
See Modernism and Dick Higgins
Die Brücke
Die Brücke (The Bridge), also known as Künstlergruppe Brücke or KG Brücke, was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905.
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter.
See Modernism and Diego Rivera
Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.
See Modernism and Diego Velázquez
Divertimento for String Orchestra (Bartók)
Divertimento for String Orchestra Sz.113 BB.118 is a three-movement work composed by Béla Bartók in 1939, scored for full orchestral strings.
See Modernism and Divertimento for String Orchestra (Bartók)
Divisionism
Divisionism, also called chromoluminarism, is the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches that interact optically.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
See Modernism and Dmitri Shostakovich
Doctor Faustus (novel)
Doctor Faustus is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, begun in 1943 and published in 1947 as Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde ("Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, Told by a Friend").
See Modernism and Doctor Faustus (novel)
Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme Jr. (pronounced BAR-thəl-mee or BAR-təl-mee; April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction.
See Modernism and Donald Barthelme
Donald Judd
Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism.
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
See Modernism and Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist.
See Modernism and Dorothy Richardson
Douglas Kellner
Douglas Kellner (born May 31, 1943) is an American academic who works at the intersection of "third-generation" critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, or Frankfurt School, and in cultural studies in the tradition of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, or the "Birmingham School".
See Modernism and Douglas Kellner
Dramaturgy
Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage.
Dresden
Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.
Drone music
Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters called drones.
Du "Cubisme"
Du "Cubisme", also written Du Cubisme, or Du « Cubisme » (and in English, On Cubism or Cubism), is a book written in 1912 by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger.
See Modernism and Du "Cubisme"
Dub music
Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
E. B. White
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer.
E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.
See Modernism and E. E. Cummings
E. O. Hoppé
Emil Otto Hoppé (14 April 1878 – 9 December 1972) was a German-born British portrait, travel, and topographic photographer active between 1907 and 1945.
Early skyscrapers
The earliest stage of skyscraper design encompasses buildings built between 1884 and 1945, predominantly in the American cities of New York and Chicago.
See Modernism and Early skyscrapers
East Village, Manhattan
The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.
See Modernism and East Village, Manhattan
Ebony Concerto (Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky wrote the Ebony Concerto in 1945 (finishing the score on December 1) for the Woody Herman band known as the First Herd.
See Modernism and Ebony Concerto (Stravinsky)
Eccentrism
Eccentrism was an avant-garde artistic movement in the Soviet Union active during the 1920s.
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
See Modernism and Edinburgh University Press
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.
See Modernism and Edmund Husserl
Eduardo Paolozzi
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works.
See Modernism and Eduardo Paolozzi
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter.
See Modernism and Edvard Munch
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).
See Modernism and Edward Albee
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker.
See Modernism and Edward Hopper
Edward Johnston
Edward Johnston, CBE (11 February 1872 – 26 November 1944) was a British craftsman who is regarded, with Rudolf Koch, as the father of modern calligraphy, in the particular form of the broad-edged pen as a writing tool.
See Modernism and Edward Johnston
Edward Kienholz
Edward Ralph Kienholz (October 23, 1927 – June 10, 1994) was an American installation artist and assemblage sculptor whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life.
See Modernism and Edward Kienholz
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.
See Modernism and Eiffel Tower
Elaine Summers
Lillian Elaine Summers (February 20, 1925 – December 27, 2014) was an American choreographer, experimental filmmaker, and intermedia pioneer.
See Modernism and Elaine Summers
Electrical telegraph
Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century.
See Modernism and Electrical telegraph
Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
See Modernism and Electronic music
Elitism
Elitism is the notion that individuals who form an elite — a select group with desirable qualities such as intellect, wealth, power, physical attractiveness, notability, special skills, experience, lineage — are more likely to be constructive to society and deserve greater influence or authority.
Elizabeth Murray (artist)
Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007)Smith, Roberta.
See Modernism and Elizabeth Murray (artist)
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism.
See Modernism and Ellsworth Kelly
Emergence
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.
En plein air
En plein air (French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors.
See Modernism and En plein air
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.
See Modernism and Enrico Fermi
Erased de Kooning Drawing
Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) is an early work of American artist Robert Rauschenberg.
See Modernism and Erased de Kooning Drawing
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German-born novelist.
See Modernism and Erich Maria Remarque
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.
See Modernism and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays.
See Modernism and Ernst Toller
Ethos
Ethos is a Greek word meaning 'character' that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology; and the balance between caution, and passion.
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu,; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century.
See Modernism and Eugène Ionesco
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright.
See Modernism and Eugene O'Neill
Eugenics
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.
Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics.
Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Existentialism
Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.
See Modernism and Existentialism
Experimental film
Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.
See Modernism and Experimental film
Experimental literature
Experimental literature is a genre of literature that is generally "difficult to define with any sort of precision." It experiments with the conventions of literature, including boundaries of genres and styles; for example, it can be written in the form of prose narratives or poetry, but the text may be set on the page in differing configurations than that of normal prose paragraphs or in the classical stanza form of verse.
See Modernism and Experimental literature
Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
See Modernism and Experimental music
Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Modernism and Expressionism are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Expressionism
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.
Fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
Fauvism
Fauvism is a style of painting and an art movement that emerged in France at the beginning of the 20th century. Modernism and Fauvism are art movements.
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.
See Modernism and Federico García Lorca
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
See Modernism and Fernand Léger
Fernando Arrabal
Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet.
See Modernism and Fernando Arrabal
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement.
See Modernism and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Fin-de-siècle Vienna
Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture is a 1979 transdisciplinary non-fiction book written by cultural historian Carl E. Schorske and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Described by its publisher as a "magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born," the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
See Modernism and Fin-de-siècle Vienna
Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
See Modernism and Financial Times
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce.
See Modernism and Finnegans Wake
Float (parade)
A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades, such as those of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the Carnival in São Paulo, the Carnival of Viareggio, the Maltese Carnival, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, the 500 Festival Parade in Indianapolis, the United States Presidential Inaugural Parade, and the Tournament of Roses Parade.
See Modernism and Float (parade)
Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
Fluxus
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Found object
A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé), or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function. Modernism and found object are modern art.
See Modernism and Found object
Fountain (Duchamp)
Fountain is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917, consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R.
See Modernism and Fountain (Duchamp)
Francis Bacon (artist)
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery.
See Modernism and Francis Bacon (artist)
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
See Modernism and Francisco Franco
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker.
See Modernism and Francisco Goya
Frank Auerbach
Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter.
See Modernism and Frank Auerbach
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.
See Modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Stella
Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.
See Modernism and Frank Stella
Frank Wedekind
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright.
See Modernism and Frank Wedekind
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague.
Franz Kline
Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter.
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.
Franz Marc
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism.
Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
See Modernism and Freedom of speech
Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (5 January 1921 – 14 December 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.
See Modernism and Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
See Modernism and Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.
See Modernism and Friedrich Nietzsche
Futurism
Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. Modernism and Futurism are art movements and modern art.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій.|Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy|p.
See Modernism and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gavin Bryars
Richard Gavin Bryars (born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.
See Modernism and Gavin Bryars
Geometric abstraction
Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Modernism and geometric abstraction are modern art.
See Modernism and Geometric abstraction
Geopolitics
Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.
Georg Kaiser
Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, (25 November 1878 – 4 June 1945) was a German dramatist.
See Modernism and Georg Kaiser
George Brecht
George Brecht (August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008), born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.
See Modernism and George Brecht
George Grosz
George Grosz (born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s.
See Modernism and George Grosz
George Maciunas
George Maciunas (Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist, born in Kaunas.
See Modernism and George Maciunas
George Segal (artist)
George Segal (November 26, 1924 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the pop art movement.
See Modernism and George Segal (artist)
George Steiner
Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator.
See Modernism and George Steiner
George Tooker
George Clair Tooker, Jr. (August 5, 1920 – March 27, 2011) was an American figurative painter.
See Modernism and George Tooker
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
See Modernism and Georges Braque
Georges Seurat
Georges Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist.
See Modernism and Georges Seurat
Gerald Graff
Gerald Graff (born 1937) is a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
See Modernism and Gerald Graff
German expressionist cinema
German expressionist cinema was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th century that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s.
See Modernism and German expressionist cinema
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Modernism and Gertrude Stein are modern art.
See Modernism and Gertrude Stein
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism.
See Modernism and Giacomo Balla
Gino Severini
Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement.
See Modernism and Gino Severini
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Draghi (4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school.
See Modernism and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
See Modernism and Google Books
Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician.
See Modernism and Gottfried Benn
Grand Central Palace
The Grand Central Palace was an exhibition hall in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
See Modernism and Grand Central Palace
Grant Wood
Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891February 12, 1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest.
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
See Modernism and Great Depression
Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.
See Modernism and Great Exhibition
Green Gallery
The Green Gallery was an art gallery that operated between 1960 and 1965 at 15 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City.
See Modernism and Green Gallery
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
See Modernism and Greenwich Village
Griselda Pollock
Griselda Frances Sinclair PollockThe International Who's Who of Women; 3rd ed.; ed.
See Modernism and Griselda Pollock
Guernica
Guernica, officially Gernika in Basque, is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain.
Guernica (Picasso)
Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
See Modernism and Guernica (Picasso)
Guilford Press
Guilford Press or Guilford Publications, Inc. is a New York City-based independent publisher founded in 1973 that specializes in publishing books and journals in psychology, psychiatry, the behavioral sciences, education, geography, and research methods.
See Modernism and Guilford Press
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish descent.
See Modernism and Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut (also Machau and Machault; – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music.
See Modernism and Guillaume de Machaut
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
See Modernism and Gustav Mahler
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.
See Modernism and Gustave Flaubert
Guy Debord
Guy-Ernest Debord (28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.
H.D.
Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life.
Hal Foster (art critic)
Harold Foss "Hal" Foster: Foster, Harold.
See Modernism and Hal Foster (art critic)
Hans Henny Jahnn
Hans Henny Jahnn (born Hans Henny August Jahn; 17 December 1894 – 29 November 1959) was a German playwright, novelist, and organ-builder.
See Modernism and Hans Henny Jahnn
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher.
See Modernism and Hans Hofmann
Happening
A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art.
Happy Days (play)
Happy Days is a play in two acts, written by Samuel Beckett first performed in 1961.
See Modernism and Happy Days (play)
Hard-edge painting
Hard-edge painting (also referred to as Hard Edge or Hard-edged) is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Modernism and Hard-edge painting are modern art.
See Modernism and Hard-edge painting
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.
See Modernism and Harold Pinter
Harvest Threshing
Le Dépiquage des Moissons, also known as Harvest Threshing, and The Harvesters, is an immense oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes (1881–1953).
See Modernism and Harvest Threshing
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.
See Modernism and Heart of Darkness
Hecatomb
In ancient Greece, a hecatomb (ἑκατόμβη hekatómbē) was a sacrifice of 100 cattle (hekaton "one hundred", bous "bull") to the Greek gods.
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter.
See Modernism and Helen Frankenthaler
Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson.
See Modernism and Henri Bergson
Henri Le Fauconnier
Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin.
See Modernism and Henri Le Fauconnier
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
See Modernism and Henri Matisse
Henry James
Henry James (–) was an American-British author.
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist.
Henryk Górecki
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music.
See Modernism and Henryk Górecki
Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).
See Modernism and Hermann Broch
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.
See Modernism and Hermeneutics
High modernism
High modernism (also known as high modernity) is a form of modernity, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.
See Modernism and High modernism
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan.
See Modernism and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
History of theatre
The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years.
See Modernism and History of theatre
Holism
Holism is the interdisciplinary idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts.
Howard Hodgkin
Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker.
See Modernism and Howard Hodgkin
Howard Skempton
Howard While Skempton (born 31 October 1947) is an English composer, pianist, and accordionist.
See Modernism and Howard Skempton
Hugh MacDiarmid
Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure.
See Modernism and Hugh MacDiarmid
Human sacrifice
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure or spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life.
See Modernism and Human sacrifice
I Hear a New World
I Hear a New World is a studio concept album written and produced by Joe Meek with the Blue Men, partially released as an EP in 1960 before financial issues at the Triumph label prevented further release of the material.
See Modernism and I Hear a New World
I Was a Rich Man's Plaything
I was a Rich Man's Plaything is a 1947 collage by Eduardo Paolozzi.
See Modernism and I Was a Rich Man's Plaything
I. A. Richards
Ivor Armstrong Richards CH (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician.
See Modernism and I. A. Richards
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" ΚλέαρχουΞενάκης,; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
See Modernism and Iannis Xenakis
Idioglossia
An idioglossia (from the Ancient Greek ἴδιος ídios, 'own, personal, distinct' and γλῶσσα glôssa, 'tongue') is an idiosyncratic language invented and spoken by only one or two people.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).
See Modernism and Igor Stravinsky
Ihab Hassan
Ihab Habib Hassan (Arabic: إيهاب حبيب حسن; October 17, 1925 – September 10, 2015) was an Egypt-born American literary theorist and writer.
Imagism
Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.
See Modernism and Immanuel Kant
Impasto
Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. Modernism and Impressionism are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Impressionism
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.
See Modernism and In Search of Lost Time
Indian art
Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
See Modernism and Industrial Revolution
Installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.
See Modernism and Installation art
Instinct
Instinct is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behaviour, containing innate (inborn) elements.
Intermedia
Intermedia is an art theory term coined in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the strategies of interdisciplinarity that occur within artworks existing between artistic genres.
Intuition
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation.
Irrationality
Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking, or acting without rationality.
See Modernism and Irrationality
Isaac Witkin
Isaac Witkin (10 May 1936 – 23 April 2006) was an internationally renowned modern sculptor born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
See Modernism and Isaac Witkin
Islamic modernism
Islamic modernism is a movement that has been described as "the first Muslim ideological response to the Western cultural challenge," attempting to reconcile the Islamic faith with values percieved as modern such as democracy, civil rights, rationality, equality, and progress.
See Modernism and Islamic modernism
Italo Svevo
Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media.
See Modernism and J. G. Ballard
J. H. Prynne
Jeremy Halvard Prynne (born 24 June 1936) is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival.
See Modernism and J. H. Prynne
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
See Modernism and J. M. W. Turner
Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Mac Low (1922 – December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff.
See Modernism and Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter.
See Modernism and Jackson Pollock
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher.
See Modernism and Jacques Derrida
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.
James Rosenquist
James Albert Rosenquist (November 29, 1933 – March 31, 2017) was an American artist and one of the proponents of the pop art movement.
See Modernism and James Rosenquist
James Thurber
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist and playwright.
See Modernism and James Thurber
Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis (Γιάννης Κουνέλλης; 23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome.
See Modernism and Jannis Kounellis
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker.
See Modernism and Jasper Johns
Jean Arp
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet.
Jean Barraqué
Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué (17 January 1928 – 17 August 1973) was a French composer and music writer.
See Modernism and Jean Barraqué
Jean Genet
Jean Genet (–) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.
Jean Metzinger
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism.
See Modernism and Jean Metzinger
Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines (known officially as Métamatics) that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century.
See Modernism and Jean Tinguely
Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard (10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.
See Modernism and Jean-François Lyotard
Jewish Bolshevism
Jewish Bolshevism, also Judeo–Bolshevism, is an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that claims that the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a Jewish plot and that Jews controlled the Soviet Union and international communist movements, often in furtherance of a plan to destroy Western civilization.
See Modernism and Jewish Bolshevism
Jim Dine
Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935) is an American artist.
Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, "a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s".
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist.
Joan Snyder
Joan Snyder (born April 16, 1940) is an American painter from New York.
Joaquín Torres-García
Joaquín Torres-García (28 July 1874 – 8 August 1949) was a prominent Uruguayan-Spanish artist, theorist, and author, renowned for his international impact in the modern art world.
See Modernism and Joaquín Torres-García
Joe Meek
Robert George "Joe" Meek (5 April 1929 – 3 February 1967) was an English record producer, sound engineer and songwriter who pioneered space age and experimental pop music.
Joel Shapiro
Joel Elias Shapiro (born September 27, 1941 New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes.
See Modernism and Joel Shapiro
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
See Modernism and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Adams (composer)
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism.
See Modernism and John Adams (composer)
John Barth
John Simmons Barth (May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction.
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
John Chamberlain (sculptor)
John Angus Chamberlain (April 16, 1927 – December 21, 2011), was an American sculptor and filmmaker.
See Modernism and John Chamberlain (sculptor)
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (8 October 187217 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879.
See Modernism and John Cowper Powys
John D. Graham
John D. Graham (Kyiv, Ukraine – June 27, 1961, London, England) was a Ukrainian–born American modernist and figurative painter, art collector, and a mentor of modernist artists in New York City.
See Modernism and John D. Graham
John McCracken (artist)
John Harvey McCracken (December 9, 1934April 8, 2011) was a minimalist artist.
See Modernism and John McCracken (artist)
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.
John Steuart Curry
John Steuart Curry (November 14, 1897 – August 29, 1946) was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death.
See Modernism and John Steuart Curry
John Tavener
Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works.
See Modernism and John Tavener
José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.
See Modernism and José Clemente Orozco
Josef Breuer
Josef Breuer (15 January 1842 – 20 June 1925) was an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., developed the talking cure (cathartic method) which was used as the basis of psychoanalysis as developed by his protégé Sigmund Freud.
See Modernism and Josef Breuer
Joseph Beuys
Joseph Heinrich Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and, with Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research (FIU).
See Modernism and Joseph Beuys
Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American visual artist and filmmaker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.
See Modernism and Joseph Cornell
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
See Modernism and Joseph Haydn
Joseph Nechvatal
Joseph Nechvatal (born January 15, 1951) is an American post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom computer viruses.
See Modernism and Joseph Nechvatal
Judith Malina
Judith Malina (June 4, 1926 – April 10, 2015) was a German-born American actress, director and writer.
See Modernism and Judith Malina
Judson Dance Theater
Judson Dance Theater was a collective of dancers, composers, and visual artists who performed at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York City between 1962 and 1964.
See Modernism and Judson Dance Theater
Judson Memorial Church
The Judson Memorial Church is located on Washington Square South between Thompson Street and Sullivan Street, near Gould Plaza, opposite Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
See Modernism and Judson Memorial Church
Jules Olitski
Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
See Modernism and Jules Olitski
Julian Beck
Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature.
See Modernism and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Kafū Nagai
was a Japanese writer, editor and translator.
Karel Goeyvaerts
Karel August Goeyvaerts (8 June 1923 – 3 February 1993) was a Belgian composer.
See Modernism and Karel Goeyvaerts
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
See Modernism and Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (// ЦГИАК Украины, ф. 1268, оп. 1, д. 26, л. 13об—14. – 15 May 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century.
See Modernism and Kazimir Malevich
Keith Sonnier
Keith Sonnier (July 31, 1941 – July 18, 2020) was a postminimalist sculptor, performance artist, video and light artist.
See Modernism and Keith Sonnier
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter.
See Modernism and Kenneth Noland
Kenzō Tange
was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for Architecture.
Kitsch
Kitsch (loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste.
L'Histoire du soldat
, or Tale of the Soldier (as it was first published), is an hour-long 1918 theatrical work to be "read, played and danced" by three actors, one or more dancers, and a septet of instruments.
See Modernism and L'Histoire du soldat
La Monte Young
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music.
See Modernism and La Monte Young
Labor rights
Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers.
See Modernism and Labor rights
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover is the last novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Italy, and in 1929, in France.
See Modernism and Lady Chatterley's Lover
Larry Poons
Lawrence M. "Larry" Poons (born October 1, 1937) is an American abstract painter.
Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg; August 17, 1923 – August 14, 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor.
See Modernism and Larry Rivers
Larry Zox
Lawrence "Larry" Zox (May 31, 1937 – December 16, 2006) was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work.
Late modernism
In the visual arts, late modernism encompasses the overall production of most recent art made between the aftermath of World War II and the early years of the 21st century. Modernism and late modernism are modern art.
See Modernism and Late modernism
Lawrence Alloway
Lawrence Reginald Alloway (17 September 1926 – 2 January 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961.
See Modernism and Lawrence Alloway
Le Chat Noir
(French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th century entertainment establishment in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris.
See Modernism and Le Chat Noir
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
See Modernism and Le Corbusier
Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman.
See Modernism and Leaves of Grass
Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
See Modernism and Left-wing politics
Leo Castelli
Leo Castelli (Krausz; September 4, 1907 – August 21, 1999) was an Italian-American art dealer who originated the contemporary art gallery system.
See Modernism and Leo Castelli
Leon Kossoff
Leon Kossoff (10 December 1926 – 4 July 2019) was a British figurative painter known for portraits, life drawings and cityscapes of London, England.
See Modernism and Leon Kossoff
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
(The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
See Modernism and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal (italic) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
See Modernism and Les Fleurs du mal
Lexical item
In lexicography, a lexical item is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon (≈ vocabulary).
See Modernism and Lexical item
Linda Nochlin
Linda Nochlin (née Weinberg; January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer.
See Modernism and Linda Nochlin
List of modernist women writers
The term Modernism describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
See Modernism and List of modernist women writers
List of modernist writers
Literary modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America.
See Modernism and List of modernist writers
Literary modernism
Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing.
See Modernism and Literary modernism
London King's Cross railway station
King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London.
See Modernism and London King's Cross railway station
London Paddington station
Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.
See Modernism and London Paddington station
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.
See Modernism and London Underground
Louis Andriessen
Louis Joseph Andriessen (6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher.
See Modernism and Louis Andriessen
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon (3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France.
See Modernism and Louis Aragon
Louis Zukofsky
Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet.
See Modernism and Louis Zukofsky
Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
See Modernism and Lucian Freud
Lucinda Childs
Lucinda Childs (born June 26, 1940) is an American postmodern dancer and choreographer.
See Modernism and Lucinda Childs
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher.
See Modernism and Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer.
See Modernism and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
See Modernism and Ludwig van Beethoven
Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
Luigi Russolo
Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (30 April 1885 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913).
See Modernism and Luigi Russolo
Lulu (opera)
Lulu (composed from 1929 to 1935, premièred incomplete in 1937 and complete in 1979) is an opera in three acts by Alban Berg.
See Modernism and Lulu (opera)
Lynda Benglis
Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures.
See Modernism and Lynda Benglis
Lyrical abstraction
Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered as a component of Tachisme when the name of this movement was coined in 1951 by Pierre Guéguen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art à Paris 1945–1966, and American Lyrical Abstraction a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969. Modernism and Lyrical abstraction are modern art.
See Modernism and Lyrical abstraction
M. H. Abrams
Meyer Howard Abrams (July 23, 1912 – April 21, 2015), usually cited as M. H. Abrams, was an American literary critic, known for works on romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp.
See Modernism and M. H. Abrams
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary, originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857.
See Modernism and Madame Bovary
Magic realism
Magic realism, magical realism or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.
See Modernism and Magic realism
Mahirwan Mamtani
Mahirwan Mamtani (born 2 November 1935 in Bhiria (Nawabshah) Sindh, British India) is painter, graphic and multimedia artist.
See Modernism and Mahirwan Mamtani
Main Street (novel)
Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.
See Modernism and Main Street (novel)
Man at the Crossroads
Man at the Crossroads (1933) was a fresco by Mexican painter Diego Rivera.
See Modernism and Man at the Crossroads
Man Enters the Cosmos
Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago, Illinois.
See Modernism and Man Enters the Cosmos
Man Ray
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris.
Manifesto of Futurism
The Manifesto of Futurism (Italian: Manifesto del Futurismo) is a manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published in 1909.
See Modernism and Manifesto of Futurism
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.
See Modernism and Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927.
See Modernism and Marcel Proust
Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
See Modernism and Margaret Drabble
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor.
See Modernism and Marianne Moore
Mario Merz
Mario Merz (1 January 1925 – 9 November 2003) was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (IPA:, Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter.
Martin Esslin
Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, known for coining the term "theatre of the absurd" in his 1961 book The Theatre of the Absurd.
See Modernism and Martin Esslin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther (10 November 1483– 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar.
See Modernism and Martin Luther
Marx's theory of alienation
Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement (German: Entfremdung) of people from aspects of their human nature (Gattungswesen, 'species-essence') as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.
See Modernism and Marx's theory of alienation
Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
Marxist philosophy
Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists.
See Modernism and Marxist philosophy
Max Beckmann
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer.
See Modernism and Max Beckmann
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet.
Max Reger
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher.
May Sinclair
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St.
See Modernism and May Sinclair
Menno ter Braak
Menno ter Braak (26 January 1902 – 14 May 1940) was a Dutch modernist writer, critic, essayist, and journalist.
See Modernism and Menno ter Braak
Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
See Modernism and Mental disorder
Metabolism (architecture)
was a post-war Japanese biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. Modernism and Metabolism (architecture) are architectural styles.
See Modernism and Metabolism (architecture)
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality.
Mexican muralism
Mexican muralism refers to the art project initially funded by the Mexican government in the immediate wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) to depict visions of Mexico's past, present, and future, transforming the walls of many public buildings into didactic scenes designed to reshape Mexicans' understanding of the nation's history. Modernism and Mexican muralism are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Mexican muralism
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution (Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920.
See Modernism and Mexican Revolution
Michael Andrews (artist)
Michael James Andrews (30 October 1928 – 19 July 1995) was a British painter.
See Modernism and Michael Andrews (artist)
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker.
See Modernism and Michael Nyman
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Михаилъ Ивановичъ Глинка.|Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka|mʲɪxɐˈil‿ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ‿ˈɡlʲinkə|Ru-Mikhail-Ivanovich-Glinka.ogg) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music.
See Modernism and Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Matyushin
Michael Vasilyevich Matyushin (Михаил Васильевич Матюшин; 1861 in Nizhny Novgorod – 14 October 1934 in Leningrad) was a Russian painter and composer, leading member of the Russian avant-garde.
See Modernism and Mikhail Matyushin
Milton Babbitt
Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher.
See Modernism and Milton Babbitt
Minimal music
Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music.
See Modernism and Minimal music
Minimalism
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Modernism and minimalism are art movements and modern art.
Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.
See Modernism and Minoan civilization
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Modern architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.
See Modernism and Modern architecture
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. Modernism and Modern art are art movements.
Modern Art Week
The Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna) was an arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil, that ran from February 10 to February 17, 1922. Modernism and Modern Art Week are modern art.
See Modernism and Modern Art Week
Modern dance
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modernism and Modern dance are modern art.
See Modernism and Modern dance
Modernism (music)
In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.
See Modernism and Modernism (music)
Modernism in the Catholic Church
Modernism in the Catholic Church describes attempts to reconcile Catholicism with modern culture, specifically an understanding of the Bible and Catholic tradition in light of the historical-critical method and new philosophical and political developments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
See Modernism and Modernism in the Catholic Church
Modernismo
Modernismo is a literary movement that took place primarily during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century in the Spanish-speaking world, best exemplified by Rubén Darío, who is known as the father of Modernismo.
Modernist film
Modernist film is related to the art and philosophy of modernism. Modernism and modernist film are modern art.
See Modernism and Modernist film
Modernist poetry in English
Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists.
See Modernism and Modernist poetry in English
Molloy (novel)
Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett first written in French and published by Paris-based Les Éditions de Minuit in 1951.
See Modernism and Molloy (novel)
Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa (Gioconda or Monna Lisa; Joconde) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Montage (filmmaking)
Montage is a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.
See Modernism and Montage (filmmaking)
Montmartre
Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement.
Morality
Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).
Moses und Aron
Moses und Aron (English: Moses and Aaron) is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the music to the third act unfinished.
See Modernism and Moses und Aron
Mu Shiying
Mu Shiying (March 14, 1912 – June 28, 1940) was a Chinese writer who is best known for his modernist short stories.
Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.
See Modernism and Multilingualism
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
Murderer, the Hope of Women
Murderer, the Hope of Women is a short Expressionist play written by the painter Oskar Kokoschka.
See Modernism and Murderer, the Hope of Women
Murphy (novel)
Murphy, first published in 1938, is an avant-garde novel, the third work of prose fiction by the Irish author and dramatist Samuel Beckett.
See Modernism and Murphy (novel)
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
See Modernism and Museum of Modern Art
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) was until May 2012 a non-departmental public body and a registered charity in England with a remit to promote improvement and innovation in the area of museums, libraries, and archives.
See Modernism and Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz.
See Modernism and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Music of India
Owing to India's vastness and diversity, Indian music encompasses numerous genres in multiple varieties and forms which include classical music, folk, rock, and pop.
See Modernism and Music of India
Musique concrète
Musique concrète: " problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.
See Modernism and Musique concrète
Mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.
Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean artist.
See Modernism and Nam June Paik
Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the Moon.
See Modernism and Nancy Graves
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.
See Modernism and Napoleon III
Narcissism
Narcissism is a selfcentered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often at the expense of others.
Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
See Modernism and Natural selection
Naturism
Naturism is a lifestyle of practicing non-sexual social nudity in private and in public; the word also refers to the cultural movement which advocates and defends that lifestyle.
Nazarene movement
The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art.
See Modernism and Nazarene movement
Nazism
Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky, was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford.
See Modernism and Nelson Rockefeller
Neo-Dada
Neo-Dada was a movement with audio, visual and literary manifestations that had similarities in method or intent with earlier Dada artwork.
Neo-Impressionism
Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Modernism and Neo-Impressionism are modern art.
See Modernism and Neo-Impressionism
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Modernism and Neoclassicism are art movements.
See Modernism and Neoclassicism
Neologism
In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.
New Sensationists
The New Sensationists were a group of writers that emerged in the late 1920s in Shanghai, whose revolutionary use of language, structure, theme, and style is seen as the foundation of Chinese modernist literature.
See Modernism and New Sensationists
New York School (art)
The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. Modernism and New York School (art) are modern art.
See Modernism and New York School (art)
Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
Nicolas Schöffer
Nicolas Schöffer (Schöffer Miklós; 6 September 1912 — 8 January 1992) was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist.
See Modernism and Nicolas Schöffer
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
Nighthawks (Hopper)
Nighthawks is a 1942 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window.
See Modernism and Nighthawks (Hopper)
Nihilism
Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).
See Modernism and Nikolaus Pevsner
Nomos (sociology)
In sociology, nomos (plural: nomoi) is a habit or custom of social and political behavior that is socially constructed and historically specific.
See Modernism and Nomos (sociology)
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Nuclear Energy (sculpture)
Nuclear Energy (1964–1966) (LH 526) is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore on the campus of the University of Chicago at the site of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1.
See Modernism and Nuclear Energy (sculpture)
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
See Modernism and Olivier Messiaen
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life)The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
See Modernism and On the Origin of Species
Ontology
Ontology is the philosophical study of being.
Open University
The Open University (OU) is a public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students.
See Modernism and Open University
Optimism
Optimism is an attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavor, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and desirable.
Originality
Originality is the aspect of created or invented works that distinguish them from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or substantially derivative works.
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
See Modernism and Oskar Kokoschka
Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
See Modernism and Oxford University Press
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
See Modernism and Pablo Picasso
Park Place Gallery
The Park Place Gallery was a contemporary cooperative art gallery, in operation from 1963 to 1967, and was located in New York City.
See Modernism and Park Place Gallery
Partisan Review
Partisan Review (PR) was a left-wing small-circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in New York City.
See Modernism and Partisan Review
Pat Lipsky
Pat Lipsky is an American painter associated with Lyrical Abstraction and Color Field Painting.
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century.
See Modernism and Paul Cézanne
Paul Griffiths (writer)
Paul Anthony Griffiths (born 1947) is a British music critic, novelist and librettist.
See Modernism and Paul Griffiths (writer)
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist.
Paul Valéry
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.
Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine (30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.
See Modernism and Paul Verlaine
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.
See Modernism and Pauline Oliveros
Pedro Nel Gómez
Pedro Nel Gómez Agudelo (4 July 1899 — 6 June 1984) was a Colombian engineer, painter, and sculptor, best known for his work as a muralist, and for starting, along with Santiago Martinez Delgado, the Colombian Muralist Movement, inspired by the Mexican movement that drew on nationalistic, social, and political messages as subjects.
See Modernism and Pedro Nel Gómez
Peggy Guggenheim
Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim (August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector, bohemian, and socialite.
See Modernism and Peggy Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.
See Modernism and Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
See Modernism and Penguin Books
Per Bäckström
Per Bäckström (born 1959) is a Swedish literary scholar and affiliated professor in comparative literature at the Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.
See Modernism and Per Bäckström
Perspective (graphical)
Linear or point-projection perspective is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection.
See Modernism and Perspective (graphical)
Peter Reginato
Peter Reginato (born August 19, 1945), is an American abstract sculptor and painter.
See Modernism and Peter Reginato
Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos (born Panagiotis Harry Voulkos; 29 January 1924 – 16 February 2002) was an American artist of Greek descent.
See Modernism and Peter Voulkos
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist.
See Modernism and Philip Glass
Philip Guston
Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman.
See Modernism and Philip Guston
Philip Kitcher
Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University.
See Modernism and Philip Kitcher
Philip Pearlstein
Philip Martin Pearlstein (May 24, 1924 – December 17, 2022) was an American painter best known for Modernist Realist nudes.
See Modernism and Philip Pearlstein
Phill Niblock
Phillip Earl Niblock (October 2, 1933 – January 8, 2024) was an American composer, filmmaker, and videographer.
See Modernism and Phill Niblock
Piano Concerto (Schoenberg)
Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Op. 42 (1942) is one of his later works, written during his exile in the United States.
See Modernism and Piano Concerto (Schoenberg)
Picture plane
In painting, photography, graphical perspective and descriptive geometry, a picture plane is an image plane located between the "eye point" (or oculus) and the object being viewed and is usually coextensive to the material surface of the work.
See Modernism and Picture plane
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (3 October 186723 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
See Modernism and Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions.
See Modernism and Pierre Boulez
Pierre Matisse
Pierre Matisse (June 13, 1900 – August 10, 1989) was a French-American art dealer active in New York City.
See Modernism and Pierre Matisse
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (also,; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
See Modernism and Piet Mondrian
Pilgrimage (novel sequence)
Pilgrimage is a novel sequence by the British author Dorothy Richardson, from the first half of the 20th century.
See Modernism and Pilgrimage (novel sequence)
Pitchfork
A pitchfork or hay fork is an agricultural tool used to pitch loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.
Political consciousness
Following the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx outlined the workings of a political consciousness.
See Modernism and Political consciousness
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. Modernism and Pop art are modern art.
Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
See Modernism and Popular music
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Modernism and Post-Impressionism are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Post-Impressionism
Post-painterly abstraction
Post-painterly abstraction is a term created by art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964, which subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Toronto. Modernism and Post-painterly abstraction are modern art.
See Modernism and Post-painterly abstraction
Post-war
A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war.
Postminimalism
Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 569.
See Modernism and Postminimalism
Postmodern art
Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. Modernism and Postmodern art are art movements.
See Modernism and Postmodern art
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism. Modernism and Postmodernism are art movements and theories of aesthetics.
See Modernism and Postmodernism
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner who formed a seven-member "Brotherhood" partly modelled on the Nazarene movement. Modernism and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood are art movements.
See Modernism and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Primitivism
In the arts of the Western World, Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that means to recreate the experience of the primitive time, place, and person, either by emulation or by re-creation. Modernism and Primitivism are art movements and modern art.
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
See Modernism and Princeton University Press
Process art
Process art is an artistic movement where the end product of art and craft, the objet d’art (work of art/found object), is not the principal focus; the process of its making is one of the most relevant aspects if not the most important one: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, patterning, and moreover the initiation of actions and proceedings. Modernism and process art are modern art.
Progress
Progress is movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state.
Progressivism
Progressivism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology.
See Modernism and Progressivism
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
See Modernism and Protestantism
Proto-Cubism
Proto-Cubism (also referred to as Protocubism, Early Cubism, and Pre-Cubism or Précubisme) is an intermediary transition phase in the history of art chronologically extending from 1906 to 1910. Modernism and Proto-Cubism are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Proto-Cubism
Psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.
See Modernism and Psychoanalysis
Pun
A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.
See Modernism and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, originally Quatuor de la fin du Temps ("Quartet of the End of Time"), also known by its English title Quartet for the End of Time, is an eight-movement piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen.
See Modernism and Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Rajat Neogy
Rajat Neogy (December 17, 1938 – December 3, 1995),Paul Theroux,, The Independent, 15 January 1996, a Ugandan of Indian Bengali ancestry, was a writer, poet and publisher.
Rationalism
In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification",Lacey, A.R. (1996), A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau (21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), notable for his wit and cynical humour.
See Modernism and Raymond Queneau
Readymades of Marcel Duchamp
The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art".
See Modernism and Readymades of Marcel Duchamp
Realism (art movement)
Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. Modernism and Realism (art movement) are art movements.
See Modernism and Realism (art movement)
Recapitulation (music)
In music theory, the recapitulation is one of the sections of a movement written in sonata form.
See Modernism and Recapitulation (music)
Red Grooms
Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life.
Reductionism
Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.
See Modernism and Reductionism
Reflexivity (social theory)
In epistemology, and more specifically, the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures.
See Modernism and Reflexivity (social theory)
Reginald Marsh (artist)
Reginald Marsh (March 14, 1898July 3, 1954) was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s.
See Modernism and Reginald Marsh (artist)
Regionalism (art)
American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest. Modernism and Regionalism (art) are modern art.
See Modernism and Regionalism (art)
Reinhard Sorge
Reinhard Johannes Sorge (29 January 1892 – 20 July 1916) was a German dramatist and poet.
See Modernism and Reinhard Sorge
Religious views on truth
Religious views on truth vary both between and within religions.
See Modernism and Religious views on truth
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
Remodernism
Remodernism is an artistic and philosophical movement aimed at reviving aspects of modernism, particularly in its early form, in a manner that both follows after and contrasts against postmodernism. Modernism and Remodernism are architectural styles.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Reprise
In music, a reprise (from the verb reprendre 'to resume') is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though—originally in the 18th century—was simply any repeated section, such as is indicated by beginning and ending repeat signs.
Richard Dedekind
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic.
See Modernism and Richard Dedekind
Richard Hamilton (artist)
Richard William Hamilton (24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011) was an English painter and collage artist. His 1955 exhibition Man, Machine and Motion (Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne) and his 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, are considered by critics and historians to be among the earliest works of pop art.Livingstone, M., (1990), Pop Art: A Continuing History, New York: Harry N.
See Modernism and Richard Hamilton (artist)
Richard Maxfield
Richard Vance Maxfield (February 2, 1927 – June 27, 1969) was a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic, and electronic music.
See Modernism and Richard Maxfield
Richard Serra
Richard Serra (November 2, 1938 – March 26, 2024) was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, whose work has been primarily associated with Postminimalism.
See Modernism and Richard Serra
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.
See Modernism and Richard Strauss
Richard Tuttle
Richard Dean Tuttle (born July 12, 1941) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, casual, subtle, intimate works.
See Modernism and Richard Tuttle
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (full name Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing; 14 August 1840 – 22 December 1902) was a German psychiatrist and author of the foundational work Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).
See Modernism and Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
See Modernism and Richard Wagner
Riichi Yokomitsu
was an experimental, modernist Japanese writer.
See Modernism and Riichi Yokomitsu
Robert Archambeau (poet)
Robert Archambeau (born 1968) is a novelist, poet and critic.
See Modernism and Robert Archambeau (poet)
Robert Benchley
Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and movie actor.
See Modernism and Robert Benchley
Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
See Modernism and Robert Delaunay
Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos (4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement.
See Modernism and Robert Desnos
Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.
See Modernism and Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Lowell
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.
See Modernism and Robert Lowell
Robert Morris (artist)
Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer.
See Modernism and Robert Morris (artist)
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology.
See Modernism and Robert Motherwell
Robert Musil
Robert Musil (6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer.
See Modernism and Robert Musil
Robert Pincus-Witten
Robert Pincus-Witten (April 5, 1935 – January 28, 2018) was an American art critic, curator and art historian.
See Modernism and Robert Pincus-Witten
Robert Rauschenberg
Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement.
See Modernism and Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts.
See Modernism and Robert Smithson
Robert Whitman
Robert Whitman (May 23, 1935 – January 19, 2024) was an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making.
See Modernism and Robert Whitman
Rockaby
Rockaby is a short one-woman play by Samuel Beckett.
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th Street and 51st Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
See Modernism and Rockefeller Center
Roger de La Fresnaye
Roger de La Fresnaye (11 July 1885 – 27 November 1925) was a French Cubist painter.
See Modernism and Roger de La Fresnaye
Roger Griffin
Roger David Griffin (born 31 January 1948) is a British professor of modern history and political theorist at Oxford Brookes University, England.
See Modernism and Roger Griffin
Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs.
See Modernism and Romantic nationalism
Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Modernism and Romanticism are art movements and theories of aesthetics.
Ronald Bladen
Ronald Bladen (July 13, 1918 – February 3, 1988) was a Canadian-born American painter and sculptor.
See Modernism and Ronald Bladen
Ronald Davis
Ronald "Ron" Davis (born 1937) is an American painter whose work is associated with geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction, hard-edge painting, shaped canvas painting, color field painting, and 3D computer graphics.
See Modernism and Ronald Davis
Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947) is an American abstract painter.
See Modernism and Ronnie Landfield
Ross Bleckner
Ross Bleckner (born May 12, 1949) is an American artist.
See Modernism and Ross Bleckner
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist.
See Modernism and Roy Lichtenstein
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen; KMSKA) is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.
See Modernism and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.
See Modernism and Rufino Tamayo
Russian avant-garde
The Russian avant-garde was a large, influential wave of avant-garde modern art that flourished in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, approximately from 1890 to 1930—although some have placed its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960. Modernism and Russian avant-garde are modern art.
See Modernism and Russian avant-garde
Russian Futurism
Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism", which espoused the rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth, industry, destruction of academies, museums, and urbanism; it also advocated for modernization and cultural rejuvenation.
See Modernism and Russian Futurism
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.
See Modernism and Russian Revolution
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..
See Modernism and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Rutgers University
Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.
See Modernism and Rutgers University
S. J. Perelman
Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and screenwriter.
See Modernism and S. J. Perelman
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
See Modernism and Saint Petersburg
Salon (Paris)
The Salon (Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the italic in Paris.
See Modernism and Salon (Paris)
Salon d'Automne
The (Autumn Salon), or, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris. Modernism and Salon d'Automne are modern art.
See Modernism and Salon d'Automne
Salon des Refusés
The Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects", is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863.
See Modernism and Salon des Refusés
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
See Modernism and Salvador Dalí
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam (November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American abstract painter, sculptor, and arts educator.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
See Modernism and Samuel Beckett
Santiago Martínez Delgado
Santiago Martínez Delgado (1906–1954) was a Colombian painter, sculptor, art historian and writer.
See Modernism and Santiago Martínez Delgado
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
See Modernism and Søren Kierkegaard
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.
See Modernism and Schizophrenia
Seagram Building
The Seagram Building is a skyscraper at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
See Modernism and Seagram Building
Sean Scully
Sean Scully (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer.
Section d'Or
The Section d'Or ("Golden Section"), also known as Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group, was a collective of painters, sculptors, poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism.
See Modernism and Section d'Or
Secularization
In sociology, secularization (secularisation) is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism, irreligion, nor are they automatically antithetical to religion.
See Modernism and Secularization
Self-consciousness
Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself.
See Modernism and Self-consciousness
Self-reference
Self-reference is a concept that involves referring to oneself or one's own attributes, characteristics, or actions.
See Modernism and Self-reference
Self-sacrifice
Self-sacrifice is the giving up of something that a person wants for themselves so that others can be helped or protected or so that other external values can be advanced or protected.
See Modernism and Self-sacrifice
Sentinel species
Sentinel species are organisms, often animals, used to detect risks to humans by providing advance warning of a danger.
See Modernism and Sentinel species
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Seven Types of Ambiguity is a work of literary criticism by William Empson which was first published in 1930.
See Modernism and Seven Types of Ambiguity
Sexology
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors, and functions.
Shape
A shape is a graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works.
See Modernism and Sherwood Anderson
Shi Zhecun
Shi Zhecun (December 3, 1905 – November 19, 2003) was a Chinese essayist, poet, short story writer, and translator in Shanghai during the 1930s.
Sidney Janis
Sidney Janis (July 8, 1896 – November 23, 1989) was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who opened an art gallery in New York in 1948.
See Modernism and Sidney Janis
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
See Modernism and Sigmund Freud
Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
See Modernism and Sinclair Lewis
Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
See Modernism and Slate (magazine)
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
See Modernism and Smithsonian (magazine)
Social issue
A social issue is a problem that affects many people within a society.
See Modernism and Social issue
Social organization
In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and groups.
See Modernism and Social organization
Social realism
Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions. Modernism and Social realism are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Social realism
Socialist realism
Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature and the visual arts. Modernism and socialist realism are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Socialist realism
Société des Artistes Indépendants
The Société des Artistes Indépendants (Society of Independent Artists) or Salon des Indépendants was formed in Paris on 29 July 1884. Modernism and Société des Artistes Indépendants are modern art.
See Modernism and Société des Artistes Indépendants
Society of Independent Artists
Society of Independent Artists was an association of American artists founded in 1916 and based in New York. Modernism and Society of Independent Artists are modern art.
See Modernism and Society of Independent Artists
Sol LeWitt
Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism.
Something Else Press
Something Else Press was founded by Dick Higgins in 1963.
See Modernism and Something Else Press
Sound collage
In music, montage (literally "putting together") or sound collage ("gluing together") is a technique where newly branded sound objects or compositions, including songs, are created from collage, also known as Musique concrète.
See Modernism and Sound collage
Space Age
The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the space race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events, beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, and continuing to the present.
Space exploration
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space.
See Modernism and Space exploration
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
See Modernism and Spanish Civil War
Spirituality
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.
See Modernism and Spirituality
St. Louis
St.
Stalag VIII-A
Stalag VIII-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, located just to the south of the town of Görlitz in Lower Silesia, east of the River Neisse.
See Modernism and Stalag VIII-A
Standard time
Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical region to a single time standard, rather than a local mean time standard.
See Modernism and Standard time
Statistical mechanics
In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities.
See Modernism and Statistical mechanics
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic.
See Modernism and Stéphane Mallarmé
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
See Modernism and Steam engine
Steve Martland
Steve Martland (10 October 1954 – 7 May 2013) was an English composer.
See Modernism and Steve Martland
Steve Paxton
Steven Douglas Paxton (January 21, 1939 – February 20, 2024) was an American experimental dancer and choreographer.
See Modernism and Steve Paxton
Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich (better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
Steven Best
Steven Best (born December 1955) is an American philosopher, writer, speaker and activist.
Stream of consciousness
In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator.
See Modernism and Stream of consciousness
String Quartet No. 5 (Bartók)
The String Quartet No.
See Modernism and String Quartet No. 5 (Bartók)
String Quartet No. 6 (Bartók)
The String Quartet No.
See Modernism and String Quartet No. 6 (Bartók)
String Quartets (Schoenberg)
The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime: String Quartet No.
See Modernism and String Quartets (Schoenberg)
Structuralism (architecture)
Structuralism is a movement in architecture and urban planning that evolved around the middle of the 20th century.
See Modernism and Structuralism (architecture)
Studies on Hysteria
Studies on Hysteria is an 1895 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and the physician Josef Breuer.
See Modernism and Studies on Hysteria
Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.
See Modernism and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
Suprematism
Suprematism (супремати́зм) is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles), painted in a limited range of colors.
Surreal humour
Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical.
See Modernism and Surreal humour
Surrealism
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas. Modernism and Surrealism are art movements.
Susan Crile
Susan Crile (born 1942) is an American painter and printmaker.
Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism. Modernism and Symbolism (arts) are art movements and modern art.
See Modernism and Symbolism (arts)
Symphony in C (Stravinsky)
The Symphony in C is an orchestral work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky.
See Modernism and Symphony in C (Stravinsky)
Symphony in Three Movements
The Symphony in Three Movements is a work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky.
See Modernism and Symphony in Three Movements
Symphony of Psalms
The Symphony of Psalms is a choral symphony in three movements composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1930 during his neoclassical period.
See Modernism and Symphony of Psalms
Systems art
Systems art is art influenced by cybernetics, and systems theory, that reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself.
Systems music
Systems music is music with sound continua which evolve gradually, often over very long periods of time.
See Modernism and Systems music
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, defined as from after 1900, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.
Technological innovation
Technological innovation is an extended concept of innovation.
See Modernism and Technological innovation
Technology and Culture
Technology and Culture is a quarterly academic journal founded in 1959.
See Modernism and Technology and Culture
Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition.
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts.
See Modernism and Thames & Hudson
The Bathers (Gleizes)
The Bathers (French: Les Baigneuses) is a large oil painting created at the outset of 1912 by the French artist Albert Gleizes.
See Modernism and The Bathers (Gleizes)
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The Breasts of Tiresias
The Breasts of Tiresias (Les mamelles de Tirésias) is a surrealist play by Guillaume Apollinaire.
See Modernism and The Breasts of Tiresias
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov (Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brát'ya Karamázovy), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
See Modernism and The Brothers Karamazov
The Cantos
The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long poem in 109 sections plus a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publisher, James Laughlin.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto (Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (label), is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848.
See Modernism and The Communist Manifesto
The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.
See Modernism and The Crystal Palace
The Death of Virgil
The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil) is a 1945 novel by the Austrian author Hermann Broch.
See Modernism and The Death of Virgil
The First Moderns
The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought is a book on Modernism by the historian William Everdell, published in 1997 by the University of Chicago Press.
See Modernism and The First Moderns
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
See Modernism and The Great Gatsby
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
See Modernism and The Guardian
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
See Modernism and The Holocaust
The Literature of Exhaustion
The Literature of Exhaustion is a 1967 essay by the American novelist John Barth sometimes considered to be the manifesto of postmodernism.
See Modernism and The Literature of Exhaustion
The Living Theatre
The Living Theatre is an American theatre company founded in 1947 and based in New York City.
See Modernism and The Living Theatre
The McDonaldization of Society
The McDonaldization of Society was first proposed by sociologist George Ritzer in an article for The Journal of American Culture and expanded in his 1993 book of the same name.
See Modernism and The McDonaldization of Society
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (Le mythe de Sisyphe) is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus.
See Modernism and The Myth of Sisyphus
The New School for Social Research
The New School for Social Research (NSSR), previously known as The University in Exile and The New School University, is a graduate-level educational institution that is one of the divisions of The New School in New York City, United States.
See Modernism and The New School for Social Research
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
See Modernism and The New York Times
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
See Modernism and The New Yorker
The Nose (opera)
The Nose, Op. 15, (translit is Dmitri Shostakovich's first opera, a satirical work completed in 1928 based on Nikolai Gogol's 1836 story of the same name.
See Modernism and The Nose (opera)
The Painter of Modern Life
"The Painter of Modern Life" (French: "Le Peintre de la vie moderne") is an essay written by French poet, essayist, and art critic Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867).
See Modernism and The Painter of Modern Life
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881.
See Modernism and The Portrait of a Lady
The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
See Modernism and The Rite of Spring
The Second Coming (poem)
"The Second Coming" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
See Modernism and The Second Coming (poem)
The Son (Hasenclever play)
The Son (Der Sohn) is a five-act Expressionist play by the German playwright Walter Hasenclever.
See Modernism and The Son (Hasenclever play)
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner.
See Modernism and The Sound and the Fury
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
The Symbolist Movement in Literature, first published in 1899, and with additional material in 1919, is a work by Arthur Symons largely credited with bringing French Symbolism to the attention of Anglo-American literary circles.
See Modernism and The Symbolist Movement in Literature
The Theory of Communicative Action
The Theory of Communicative Action (Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns) is a two-volume 1981 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author continues his project of finding a way to ground "the social sciences in a theory of language", which had been set out in On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967).
See Modernism and The Theory of Communicative Action
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964.
See Modernism and The Velvet Underground
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.
See Modernism and The Waste Land
The World as Will and Representation
The World as Will and Representation (WWR; Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, WWV), sometimes translated as The World as Will and Idea, is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
See Modernism and The World as Will and Representation
Theatre of the absurd
The theatre of the absurd (théâtre de l'absurde) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.
See Modernism and Theatre of the absurd
Theosophy
Theosophy is a religious and philosophical system established in the United States in the late 19th century.
Theosophy and visual arts
Modern Theosophy has had considerable influence on the work of visual artists, particularly painters.
See Modernism and Theosophy and visual arts
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker.
See Modernism and Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is a 1944 triptych painted by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon.
See Modernism and Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
Tiny Mix Tapes
Tiny Mix Tapes (also TMT or tinymixtapes) is an online music and film webzine that focuses primarily on new music and related news.
See Modernism and Tiny Mix Tapes
Tom Otterness
Tom Otterness (born 1952) is an American sculptor who is one of America's most prolific public artists.
See Modernism and Tom Otterness
Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.
See Modernism and Tom Stoppard
Tom Wesselmann
Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.
See Modernism and Tom Wesselmann
Tomorrow Never Knows
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
See Modernism and Tomorrow Never Knows
Tonality
Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.
Trench warfare
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
See Modernism and Trench warfare
Triptych
A triptych is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open.
TriQuarterly
TriQuarterly is a name shared by an American literary magazine and a series of books.
See Modernism and TriQuarterly
Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement.
See Modernism and Trisha Brown
Truth
Truth or verity is the property of being in accord with fact or reality.
Twelve-tone technique
The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law of the twelve tones" in 1919.
See Modernism and Twelve-tone technique
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.
See Modernism and Ulysses (novel)
Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni (19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor.
See Modernism and Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
See Modernism and University of California Press
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
See Modernism and University of Chicago
University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
See Modernism and University of Chicago Press
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.
See Modernism and University of Glasgow
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
See Modernism and University of Virginia
Urban planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.
See Modernism and Urban planning
Urinal
A urinal is a sanitary plumbing fixture for urination only.
Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.
Václav Havel
Václav Havel (5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident.
See Modernism and Václav Havel
Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
See Modernism and Victorian era
Victory over the Sun
Victory over the Sun (Победа над Cолнцем, Pobeda nad Solntsem) is a Russian Futurist opera premiered in 1913 at the Luna Park in Saint Petersburg.
See Modernism and Victory over the Sun
Video art
Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium.
Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
See Modernism and Vincent van Gogh
Violin Concerto (Berg)
Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935.
See Modernism and Violin Concerto (Berg)
Violin Concerto (Schoenberg)
The Violin Concerto (Op. 36) by Arnold Schoenberg dates from Schoenberg's time in the United States, where he had moved in 1933 to escape Nazi Germany.
See Modernism and Violin Concerto (Schoenberg)
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer.
See Modernism and Virginia Woolf
Visual art of the United States
Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists.
See Modernism and Visual art of the United States
Vitalism
Vitalism is a belief that starts from the premise that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things." Where vitalism explicitly invokes a vital principle, that element is often referred to as the "vital spark", "energy", "élan vital" (coined by vitalist Henri Bergson), "vital force", or "vis vitalis", which some equate with the soul.
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
See Modernism and Vladimir Lenin
Vorticism
Vorticism was a London-based modernist art movement formed in 1914 by the writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. Modernism and Vorticism are modern art.
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet.
W. W. Norton & Company
W.
See Modernism and W. W. Norton & Company
Wainwright Building
The Wainwright Building (also known as the Wainwright State Office Building) is a 10-story, terra cotta office building at 709 Chestnut Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.
See Modernism and Wainwright Building
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives.
See Modernism and Waiting for Godot
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet.
See Modernism and Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.
See Modernism and Walt Whitman
Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist.
See Modernism and Walter Benjamin
Walter Darby Bannard
Walter Darby Bannard (September 23, 1934 – October 2, 2016) was an American abstract painter and professor of art and art history at the University of Miami.
See Modernism and Walter Darby Bannard
Walter Hasenclever
Walter Georg Alfred Hasenclever (8 July 1890 – 22 June 1940) was a German Jewish Expressionist poet and playwright.
See Modernism and Walter Hasenclever
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (– 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.
See Modernism and Wassily Kandinsky
Weimar Classicism
Weimar Classicism (Weimarer Klassik) was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment.
See Modernism and Weimar Classicism
Welbeck Publishing Group
Welbeck Publishing Group, formerly Carlton Publishing Group, is a London-based independent book publisher of fiction, narrative and illustrated non-fiction, as well as gift and children's books.
See Modernism and Welbeck Publishing Group
Well-made play
The well-made play (la pièce bien faite, pronounced) is a dramatic genre from nineteenth-century theatre, developed by the French dramatist Eugène Scribe.
See Modernism and Well-made play
Western canon
The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved the status of classics.
See Modernism and Western canon
Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
See Modernism and Western culture
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.
See Modernism and Wiley-Blackwell
Will to power
The will to power (der Wille zur Macht) is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
See Modernism and Will to power
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist.
See Modernism and Willem de Kooning
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism.
See Modernism and William Carlos Williams
William Empson
Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism.
See Modernism and William Empson
William Everdell
William Romeyn Everdell is an American teacher and author.
See Modernism and William Everdell
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.
See Modernism and William Faulkner
Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson.
See Modernism and Winesburg, Ohio
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka (Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká,; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.
See Modernism and Wole Soyinka
Wolf Vostell
Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus.
See Modernism and Wolf Vostell
Woman with a Horse
Woman with a Horse (French: La Femme au Cheval, also known as L'Écuyère and Kvinde med hest) is a large oil painting created toward the end of 1911, early 1912, by the French artist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956).
See Modernism and Woman with a Horse
World of Art
World of Art (formerly known as The World of Art Library) is a long established series of pocket-sized art books from the British publisher Thames & Hudson, comprising over 300 titles as of 2021.
See Modernism and World of Art
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See Modernism and World War II
Wozzeck
Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.
Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic.
See Modernism and Wyndham Lewis
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
See Modernism and Yale University Press
Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
See Modernism and Yasunari Kawabata
Yayoi Kusama
is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.
See Modernism and Yayoi Kusama
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist.
Yves Klein
Yves Klein (28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art.
Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.
See Modernism and Yvonne Rainer
Zeitgeist
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a Zeitgeist (capitalized in German) ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history.
Zeno's Conscience
Zeno's Conscience (La coscienza di Zeno) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Svevo.
See Modernism and Zeno's Conscience
20th-century classical music
20th-century classical music is art music that was written between the years 1901 and 2000, inclusive.
See Modernism and 20th-century classical music
4′33″
4′33″ is a modernist composition by American experimental composer John Cage.
See also
Theories of aesthetics
- Aesthetic absolutism
- Aesthetic relativism
- Art film
- Arthur Schopenhauer's aesthetics
- Classicism
- Communication aesthetics
- Crystal Cubism
- Cultural Pyramid of Cilento
- Didacticism
- Empathism
- Excessivism
- Film theory
- Formalism (philosophy)
- Internet art
- Irrealism (philosophy)
- Lyricism
- Marxist aesthetics
- Medium essentialism
- Modern European ink painting
- Modernism
- Nesting Orientalisms
- New Romantic
- New Suburbanism
- New Urbanism
- Object-oriented ontology
- Objectivism
- Philhellenism
- Philistinism
- Post-Internet
- Post-contemporary
- Post-postmodernism
- Postmodernism
- Postmodernist film
- Presentationism
- Processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Reactionary modernism
- Romanticism
- Signalism
- Sottorealism
- Theory of art
References
Also known as Criticism of Modernism, Criticisms of modernism, French Modernism, German modernism, Italian modernism, MODERNISTS, Make it new, Moderate modernist, Modern Movement, Modernismus, Modernist, Modernist Painting, Modernist movement, Modernist painter, Modernist period, Modernist project, Modernist revolution, Ultramodern, Western modernism.
, Art for art's sake, Art movement, Art of Europe, Art of This Century gallery, Art+Auction, Arte Povera, Arthur Rimbaud, Arthur Schnitzler, Arthur Schopenhauer, Arvo Pärt, Ashgate Publishing, Atonality, Attack on Pearl Harbor, August Macke, August Strindberg, Australian modernism, Avant-garde, Avant-Garde and Kitsch, Avant-pop, Édouard Manet, Éliane Radigue, Barbara Rose, Barnett Newman, Barry Le Va, Basil Bunting, Basque Country (autonomous community), Bauhaus, Béla Bartók, Beat Generation, Belvedere (fort), Ben Day process, Ben Shahn, Bertolt Brecht, Billy Klüver, Blend word, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bolsheviks, Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, Bombing of Guernica, Book series, Bourgeoisie, Brice Marden, Briggflatts, Brooklyn Bridge, Bruce Nauman, Cabaret, Canvas, Capitalism, Carl Andre, Carl Emil Schorske, Carl Van Vechten, Carlo Carrà, Carlo Gesualdo, Carolee Schneemann, Carpenter Gothic, Catherine de Zegher, Centre Pompidou, Chamber Symphony No. 2 (Schoenberg), Charles Baudelaire, Charles Darwin, Charles Gounod, Charles Olson, Charlotte Moorman, Chess, Christopher Morley, Christopher Okigbo, Chuck Close, Claes Oldenburg, Classical radicalism, Claude Debussy, Claude Monet, Claudio Monteverdi, Clement Greenberg, Clyfford Still, Cold War, Colin McCahon, Collage, Color field, Computer art, Conceptions of God, Conceptual art, Concrete poetry, Consonance and dissonance, Constantine P. Cavafy, Constructivism (art), Consumerism, Contemporary architecture, Contemporary art, Contemporary classical music, Contemporary French literature, Contemporary literature, Convention (norm), Crime and Punishment, Cubism, Cultural expressions, Cy Twombly, D. H. Lawrence, Dada, Dan Christensen, Dan Flavin, Dancer in a Café, Daniil Kharms, Das Kapital, David Alfaro Siqueiros, David Hockney, David Jones (artist-poet), David Tudor, De Stijl, Deborah Hay, Decadence, Decolonization, Deconstruction, Dedekind cut, Degenerate art, Degenerate Art exhibition, Der Blaue Reiter, Dick Higgins, Die Brücke, Diego Rivera, Diego Velázquez, Divertimento for String Orchestra (Bartók), Divisionism, Dmitri Shostakovich, Doctor Faustus (novel), Donald Barthelme, Donald Judd, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Richardson, Douglas Kellner, Dramaturgy, Dresden, Drone music, Du "Cubisme", Dub music, E. B. White, E. E. Cummings, E. O. Hoppé, Early skyscrapers, East Village, Manhattan, Ebony Concerto (Stravinsky), Eccentrism, Edinburgh University Press, Edmund Husserl, Eduardo Paolozzi, Edvard Munch, Edward Albee, Edward Hopper, Edward Johnston, Edward Kienholz, Eiffel Tower, Elaine Summers, Electrical telegraph, Electronic music, Elitism, Elizabeth Murray (artist), Ellsworth Kelly, Emergence, En plein air, Enrico Fermi, Erased de Kooning Drawing, Erich Maria Remarque, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ernst Toller, Ethos, Eugène Ionesco, Eugene O'Neill, Eugenics, Eva Hesse, Evolution, Existentialism, Experimental film, Experimental literature, Experimental music, Expressionism, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Fauvism, Federico García Lorca, Fernand Léger, Fernando Arrabal, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Film, Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Financial Times, Finnegans Wake, Float (parade), Florence, Fluxus, Folk music, Found object, Fountain (Duchamp), Francis Bacon (artist), Francisco Franco, Francisco Goya, Frank Auerbach, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Stella, Frank Wedekind, Frankfurt, Franz Kafka, Franz Kline, Franz Liszt, Franz Marc, Freedom of speech, Frida Kahlo, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Nietzsche, Futurism, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gavin Bryars, Geometric abstraction, Geopolitics, Georg Kaiser, George Brecht, George Grosz, George Maciunas, George Segal (artist), George Steiner, George Tooker, Georges Braque, Georges Seurat, Gerald Graff, German expressionist cinema, Gertrude Stein, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Google Books, Gottfried Benn, Grand Central Palace, Grant Wood, Great Depression, Great Exhibition, Green Gallery, Greenwich Village, Griselda Pollock, Guernica, Guernica (Picasso), Guilford Press, Guillaume Apollinaire, Guillaume de Machaut, Gustav Mahler, Gustave Flaubert, Guy Debord, H.D., Hal Foster (art critic), Hans Henny Jahnn, Hans Hofmann, Happening, Happy Days (play), Hard-edge painting, Harold Pinter, Harvest Threshing, Heart of Darkness, Hecatomb, Helen Frankenthaler, Henri Bergson, Henri Le Fauconnier, Henri Matisse, Henry James, Henry Moore, Henryk Górecki, Hermann Broch, Hermeneutics, High modernism, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, History of theatre, Holism, Howard Hodgkin, Howard Skempton, Hugh MacDiarmid, Human sacrifice, I Hear a New World, I Was a Rich Man's Plaything, I. A. Richards, Iannis Xenakis, Idioglossia, Igor Stravinsky, Ihab Hassan, Imagism, Immanuel Kant, Impasto, Impressionism, In Search of Lost Time, Indian art, Industrial Revolution, Installation art, Instinct, Intermedia, Intuition, Irrationality, Isaac Witkin, Islamic modernism, Italo Svevo, J. G. Ballard, J. H. Prynne, J. M. W. Turner, Jackson Mac Low, Jackson Pollock, Jacques Derrida, James Joyce, James Rosenquist, James Thurber, Jannis Kounellis, Jasper Johns, Jean Arp, Jean Barraqué, Jean Genet, Jean Metzinger, Jean Tinguely, Jean-François Lyotard, Jewish Bolshevism, Jim Dine, Joan Jonas, Joan Miró, Joan Snyder, Joaquín Torres-García, Joe Meek, Joel Shapiro, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Adams (composer), John Barth, John Cage, John Chamberlain (sculptor), John Cowper Powys, John D. Graham, John McCracken (artist), John Ruskin, John Steuart Curry, John Tavener, José Clemente Orozco, Josef Breuer, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Haydn, Joseph Nechvatal, Judith Malina, Judson Dance Theater, Judson Memorial Church, Jules Olitski, Julian Beck, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kafū Nagai, Karel Goeyvaerts, Karl Marx, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kazimir Malevich, Keith Sonnier, Kenneth Noland, Kenzō Tange, Kitsch, L'Histoire du soldat, La Monte Young, Labor rights, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Larry Poons, Larry Rivers, Larry Zox, Late modernism, Lawrence Alloway, Le Chat Noir, Le Corbusier, Le Figaro, Leaves of Grass, Left-wing politics, Leo Castelli, Leon Kossoff, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Les Fleurs du mal, Lexical item, Linda Nochlin, List of modernist women writers, List of modernist writers, Literary modernism, London King's Cross railway station, London Paddington station, London Underground, Louis Andriessen, Louis Aragon, Louis Zukofsky, Lucian Freud, Lucinda Childs, Ludwig Boltzmann, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Nono, Luigi Russolo, Lulu (opera), Lynda Benglis, Lyrical abstraction, M. H. Abrams, Madame Bovary, Magic realism, Mahirwan Mamtani, Main Street (novel), Man at the Crossroads, Man Enters the Cosmos, Man Ray, Manifesto of Futurism, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Proust, Margaret Drabble, Marianne Moore, Mario Merz, Mark Rothko, Martin Esslin, Martin Luther, Marx's theory of alienation, Marxism, Marxist philosophy, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Max Reger, May Sinclair, Menno ter Braak, Mental disorder, Metabolism (architecture), Metaphysics, Mexican muralism, Mexican Revolution, Michael Andrews (artist), Michael Nyman, Middle Ages, Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Matyushin, Milton Babbitt, Minimal music, Minimalism, Minoan civilization, MIT Press, Modern architecture, Modern art, Modern Art Week, Modern dance, Modernism (music), Modernism in the Catholic Church, Modernismo, Modernist film, Modernist poetry in English, Molloy (novel), Mona Lisa, Montage (filmmaking), Montmartre, Morality, Moses und Aron, Mu Shiying, Multilingualism, Mumbai, Munich, Murderer, the Hope of Women, Murphy (novel), Museum of Modern Art, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Music of India, Musique concrète, Mysticism, Nam June Paik, Nancy Graves, Napoleon III, Narcissism, Natural selection, Naturism, Nazarene movement, Nazism, Nelson Rockefeller, Neo-Dada, Neo-Impressionism, Neoclassicism, Neologism, New Sensationists, New York School (art), Newsweek, Nicolas Schöffer, Niels Bohr, Nighthawks (Hopper), Nihilism, Nikolaus Pevsner, Nomos (sociology), NPR, Nuclear Energy (sculpture), Olivier Messiaen, On the Origin of Species, Ontology, Open University, Optimism, Originality, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Oxford University Press, Pablo Picasso, Park Place Gallery, Partisan Review, Pat Lipsky, Paul Éluard, Paul Cézanne, Paul Griffiths (writer), Paul Klee, Paul Valéry, Paul Verlaine, Pauline Oliveros, Pedro Nel Gómez, Peggy Guggenheim, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Penguin Books, Per Bäckström, Perspective (graphical), Peter Reginato, Peter Voulkos, Philip Glass, Philip Guston, Philip Kitcher, Philip Pearlstein, Phill Niblock, Piano Concerto (Schoenberg), Picture plane, Pierre Bonnard, Pierre Boulez, Pierre Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pilgrimage (novel sequence), Pitchfork, Plagiarism, Political consciousness, Pop art, Popular music, Post-Impressionism, Post-painterly abstraction, Post-war, Postminimalism, Postmodern art, Postmodernism, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Primitivism, Princeton University Press, Process art, Progress, Progressivism, Protestantism, Proto-Cubism, Psychoanalysis, Pun, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Rajat Neogy, Rationalism, Raymond Queneau, Readymades of Marcel Duchamp, Realism (art movement), Recapitulation (music), Red Grooms, Reductionism, Reflexivity (social theory), Reginald Marsh (artist), Regionalism (art), Reinhard Sorge, Religious views on truth, Rembrandt, Remodernism, Renaissance, Reprise, Richard Dedekind, Richard Hamilton (artist), Richard Maxfield, Richard Serra, Richard Strauss, Richard Tuttle, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Richard Wagner, Riichi Yokomitsu, Robert Archambeau (poet), Robert Benchley, Robert Delaunay, Robert Desnos, Robert Hughes (critic), Robert Lowell, Robert Morris (artist), Robert Motherwell, Robert Musil, Robert Pincus-Witten, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Smithson, Robert Whitman, Rockaby, Rockefeller Center, Roger de La Fresnaye, Roger Griffin, Romantic nationalism, Romanticism, Ronald Bladen, Ronald Davis, Ronnie Landfield, Ross Bleckner, Routledge, Roy Lichtenstein, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Rufino Tamayo, Russian avant-garde, Russian Futurism, Russian Revolution, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Rutgers University, S. J. Perelman, Saint Petersburg, Salon (Paris), Salon d'Automne, Salon des Refusés, Salvador Dalí, Sam Gilliam, Samuel Beckett, Santiago Martínez Delgado, Søren Kierkegaard, Schizophrenia, Seagram Building, Sean Scully, Section d'Or, Secularization, Self-consciousness, Self-reference, Self-sacrifice, Sentinel species, Seven Types of Ambiguity, Sexology, Shape, Sherwood Anderson, Shi Zhecun, Sidney Janis, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Slate (magazine), Smithsonian (magazine), Social issue, Social organization, Social realism, Socialist realism, Société des Artistes Indépendants, Society of Independent Artists, Sol LeWitt, Something Else Press, Sound collage, Space Age, Space exploration, Spanish Civil War, Spirituality, St. Louis, Stalag VIII-A, Standard time, Statistical mechanics, Stéphane Mallarmé, Steam engine, Steve Martland, Steve Paxton, Steve Reich, Steven Best, Stream of consciousness, String Quartet No. 5 (Bartók), String Quartet No. 6 (Bartók), String Quartets (Schoenberg), Structuralism (architecture), Studies on Hysteria, Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), Suprematism, Surreal humour, Surrealism, Susan Crile, Symbolism (arts), Symphony in C (Stravinsky), Symphony in Three Movements, Symphony of Psalms, Systems art, Systems music, T. S. Eliot, Tate Modern, Technological innovation, Technology and Culture, Terry Riley, Thames & Hudson, The Bathers (Gleizes), The Beatles, The Breasts of Tiresias, The Brothers Karamazov, The Cantos, The Communist Manifesto, The Crystal Palace, The Death of Virgil, The First Moderns, The Great Gatsby, The Guardian, The Holocaust, The Literature of Exhaustion, The Living Theatre, The McDonaldization of Society, The Myth of Sisyphus, The New School for Social Research, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nose (opera), The Painter of Modern Life, The Portrait of a Lady, The Rite of Spring, The Second Coming (poem), The Son (Hasenclever play), The Sound and the Fury, The Symbolist Movement in Literature, The Theory of Communicative Action, The Velvet Underground, The Waste Land, The World as Will and Representation, Theatre of the absurd, Theosophy, Theosophy and visual arts, Thomas Hart Benton (painter), Thomas Mann, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Tiny Mix Tapes, Tom Otterness, Tom Stoppard, Tom Wesselmann, Tomorrow Never Knows, Tonality, Trench warfare, Triptych, TriQuarterly, Trisha Brown, Truth, Twelve-tone technique, Ulysses (novel), Umberto Boccioni, Umberto Eco, UNESCO, University of California Press, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Press, University of Glasgow, University of Virginia, Urban planning, Urinal, Vaudeville, Václav Havel, Victorian era, Victory over the Sun, Video art, Vienna, Vincent van Gogh, Violin Concerto (Berg), Violin Concerto (Schoenberg), Virginia Woolf, Visual art of the United States, Vitalism, Vladimir Lenin, Vorticism, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, W. W. Norton & Company, Wainwright Building, Waiting for Godot, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, Walter Darby Bannard, Walter Hasenclever, Wassily Kandinsky, Weimar Classicism, Welbeck Publishing Group, Well-made play, Western canon, Western culture, Wiley-Blackwell, Will to power, Willem de Kooning, William Carlos Williams, William Empson, William Everdell, William Faulkner, Winesburg, Ohio, Wole Soyinka, Wolf Vostell, Woman with a Horse, World of Art, World War I, World War II, Wozzeck, Wyndham Lewis, Yale University Press, Yasunari Kawabata, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Yves Klein, Yvonne Rainer, Zeitgeist, Zeno's Conscience, 20th-century classical music, 4′33″.