Definition of Modernist. Meaning of Modernist. Synonyms of Modernist

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Definition of Modernist

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

Meaning of Modernist from wikipedia

- change how "human beings in a society interact and live together". The modernist movement emerged during the late 19th century in response to significant...
- perspective that questioned the notion of universal truths and reshaped modernist approaches by embracing the complexity and contradictions of modern life...
- is considered by many as the Father of Modern Painting without being a Modernist himself, a fact of art history that later painters ****ociated with Modernism...
- Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of...
- Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number...
- Modernist theatre was part of twentieth-century theatre relating to the art and philosophy of modernism. Long Day's Journey into Night Waiting for Godot...
- Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, or the modern movement, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th...
- symbiotic camps within the Muslim sphere: adaptionist modernists and literal fundamentalists. Modernists, in their divergence from traditionalist reformers...
- Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking is a 2011 cookbook by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet. The book is an encyclopedia and...
- The fundamentalist–modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States...