Thoughts on Modernism Modernism as a term is defined by the perspective of the observer. In the perspective of the historian, Modernism began with the Renaissance, when a flurry of new philosophical theory and societal changes brought about a way of thinking that varied greatly from the previous Greco-Roman standards of being, thinking and living. In the perspective of the art historian, however, Modernism is a term which describes a particular movement in the arts …showed first 75 words of 1313 total…

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