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The term Modernism describes a movement in the arts, a set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally

arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I, were among the factors that shaped Modernism. Modernism also rejects the lingering certainty of Enlightenmentthinking, and many modernists re

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