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A concept hard to pin down

These modernism quotes admit the term resists a single fixed meaning, something writers had to slowly Build a personal definition around over time.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Out
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Nov 07, 2020

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Quotes by Robert Hewison

Develop
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Nov 07, 2020

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Quotes by Peter Gay

Undefined
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Nov 07, 2020

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

Quotes by John Crowe Ransom

Nov 07, 2020

When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.

Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

Design
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Nov 07, 2020

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Quotes by Christian Lacroix

Build
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Nov 07, 2020

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Quotes by Arthur Erickson

One line wryly notes that post-modernism is modernism stripped of optimism, a definition some reach only after real reflection rather than claiming it Cheaply.

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