Modernism seeks to find new forms of expression and rejects traditional or accepted ideas.
No one seems interested in denying the sway of the market even over modernism's littlest magazines and most avant-garde authors.
His definition of modernism is flexible and, in effect, plural, since he describes it as progressing through four separate stages.
Ironically, the inception of modernism - the very moment where man (or woman) invented himself (herself) - simultaneously launched new and more subtle "enlightened" mechanisms of control.
By re-establishing these discursive frames it becomes possible to theorize the grounds for a poetic modernism which is both socially engaged and radically reflexive.
Designated in the language of business "modernism" as backward, localist, and inefficient, batch firms in time came to resemble that definition.
Secondly, it allows us to explore the very particular ways in which modernism was deployed to do just that.
From this principle identification, modernism mobilises the idea of unity and totality, deliberating the qualities and characteristics of the total artwork.
He reveals something of the pathos of the religiously committed intellectual, caught in the current of modernism.
