Curated category
Modernism
- T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot was born on the 26th of September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived at a house on Locust Street for his first sixteen years before…
- Modern danceIn 1877, Isadora Duncan was born into a world where women's bodies were constrained by tight corsets and rigid ballet shoes.
- James JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd of February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square in Rathgar, Dublin. He entered the world as the eldest of ten…
- Post-ImpressionismThe year 1886 marked the final Impressionist exhibition, a moment that signaled the end of an era and the beginning of something new.
- PostmodernismThe word postmodern first appeared in print during 1870. Artist John Watkins Chapman used the phrase to describe a Postmodern style of painting that departed…
- SurrealismIn the spring of 1917, Guillaume Apollinaire used the word surrealism for the first time in program notes for a ballet called Parade.
- ModernismIn 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species through Natural Selection. This book undermined religious certainty and challenged the idea that…
- ExistentialismThe word existentialism did not exist in the 19th century. Gabriel Marcel, a French Catholic philosopher, coined the term in the mid-1940s to describe a…
- Buddhist modernismIn 1879, Edwin Arnold published The Light of Asia, a book that presented Buddhism as a sympathetic life story parallel to Christ.
- Avant-gardeIn 1825, Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues published an essay titled The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist. He used the French military term avant-garde…