THE CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE

Modernism

Modernism , in the general view , is the modern idea or practice Specifically , modernism illustrates the cultural tendencies and movement . It originally rose from wide-paced changes in the Western society during the nineteenth and early twentieth century . Modernism covers the ideas that the traditional forms of society such as art architecture , literature , religion and daily life were becoming outdated . In the current era of the new economic , social and political thought , traditional thinking does not seem to amalgamate

Modernism discarded the protracted certainty of Enlightenment way of thinking , which considers

that there exists a compassionate and all-powerful Creator . Although it is not state that all Modernists or Modernist movements rejected all aspect of religion or Enlightenment thought . Rather , Modernism can be considered as a perplexing the axioms of previous ages . A significant attribute of Modernism is self-consciousness . It is the form wherein the person is aware of his character and society . This often led to experiments with that draw attention to the processes and materials exercised which further scrutinize the tendency of abstraction

The ideology that history and civilization were intrinsically progressive and that progress was always beneficial was under increasing attack from the 1870s onward due to Modernism . Wagner and Ibsen had been detested for their own assessment of contemporary civilization and for their advices that quickening "progress " would guide to the creation of individuals separate from social values and isolated from their equal men . Contentions arose that the values of the artist and those of society were...