What are the contexts in which modernism can be defined?

Modernism was set in motion, in one sense, through a series of cultural shocks. The first of these great shocks was the Great War, which ravaged Europe from 1914 through 1918, known now as World War One. read more

Typically it relates to artistic media. Modernism literally is the mode or standard way of the present. So it can refer to any aspect of society, but it is mostly understood to describe a specific period in cultural history. read more

Years later this revolutionary new period would come to be known as modernism and would forever be defined as a time when artists and thinkers rebelled against every conceivable doctrine that was widely accepted by the Establishment, whether in the arts, science, medicine, philosophy, etc. read more