1.
modernism
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
...modernism, in religion, a general movement in...findings of modern science and philosophy. Modernism arose mainly from the application of...modernist movement resembling Protestant modernism. Within the Roman Catholic Church there......
2.
contemporary art
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......1960s and 70s to challenge and displace modernism in painting, sculpture, and other media...wholesale rejection of the tenets of modernism—e.g., its optical formalism, high...of the almost universal dismissal of modernism by contemporary artists has been the......
3.
postmodernism
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......cent. movements that constituted modernism. The term has become ubiquitous...Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986); C. Jencks, What is Post-Modernism? (1986); S. Gaggi, Modern......
4.
Loisy, Alfred Firmin
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......theologian, biblical critic, and leading exponent of biblical modernism. He was ordained (1879) a Roman Catholic priest and...beginning of the 20th cent. he became the principal leader of the Modernism movement, which accepted the theories of higher criticism......
5.
Bauhaus
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......Bauhaus (1971); E. S. Hochman, Bauhaus: Crucible of Modernism (1997); B. Bergdoll et al., Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...2009); N. Fox Weber, The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism (2009); U. Müller, Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft......
6.
Wurster, William Wilson
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......Project and Ghirardelli Square, both in San Francisco, Cowell College of the Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, and a number of office buildings. See M. Treib, ed., An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster (1995)....
7.
Adonis (Syrian poet)
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......1980s and has taught at several universities. Writing in Arabic for a mainly Arab audience, Adonis is a key figure in Arab modernism. His more than 20 books include the poetry of Aghani Mihyar ad-Dimashqi [song of Mihyar the Damascene] (1961). Highly......
8.
Berio, Luciano
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......Bruno Maderna, and founded the Studio di Fonologia Musicale, an important electronic music center. Despite the uncompromising modernism of his innovative and analytically avant-garde compositions, their richly sensuous sound colorings and dramatic power made......
9.
Broch, Hermann
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
...Hermann Broch (hĕr´män brôkh), 1886–1951, Austrian novelist. Broch is one of the masters of European modernism. Influenced by Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Kraus, and the Vienna Circle, his trilogy Die Schlafwandler (1931......
10.
Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......from a Watch Tower (1946). Enormously popular in the early years of the century, Dunsany's work fell out of favor as modernism claimed literary taste in the years following World War I. See his selected tales in In the Land of Time (2004); biography......