American modernism
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American modernism is a 20th-century U.S. artistic and cultural movement characterized by abstraction, experimentation, and a break from traditional European forms in visual art, literature, architecture, and design.
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Target entity: American modernism Context triple: [Donald Judd, movement, American modernism]
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Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
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Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance is a seminal critical study by Houston A. Baker Jr. that examines the intersections of modernist aesthetics and African American literary production during the Harlem Renaissance.
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American Impressionism
American Impressionism was a late 19th- and early 20th-century art movement in the United States that adapted French Impressionist techniques to American subjects, emphasizing light, color, and everyday scenes.
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The Modern
The Modern is a renowned contemporary art museum in Fort Worth, Texas, known for its striking Tadao Ando–designed building and significant collection of post–World War II art.
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Latin American Modernism
Latin American Modernism was a late 19th- and early 20th-century literary and artistic movement that revolutionized Spanish-language aesthetics through cosmopolitan themes, innovative forms, and a break with traditional realism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: American modernism Target entity description: American modernism is a 20th-century U.S. artistic and cultural movement characterized by abstraction, experimentation, and a break from traditional European forms in visual art, literature, architecture, and design.
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Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
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B.
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance is a seminal critical study by Houston A. Baker Jr. that examines the intersections of modernist aesthetics and African American literary production during the Harlem Renaissance.
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American Impressionism
American Impressionism was a late 19th- and early 20th-century art movement in the United States that adapted French Impressionist techniques to American subjects, emphasizing light, color, and everyday scenes.
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The Modern
The Modern is a renowned contemporary art museum in Fort Worth, Texas, known for its striking Tadao Ando–designed building and significant collection of post–World War II art.
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Latin American Modernism
Latin American Modernism was a late 19th- and early 20th-century literary and artistic movement that revolutionized Spanish-language aesthetics through cosmopolitan themes, innovative forms, and a break with traditional realism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architectural movement
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art movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ |
| aim |
to break from traditional European forms
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to create distinctly American forms of expression ⓘ to respond to modern industrial and urban life ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bauhaus influence in America
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International Style ⓘ Little magazines ⓘ New York School ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| endTime | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| field |
architecture
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dance ⓘ design ⓘ literature ⓘ music ⓘ theater ⓘ visual art ⓘ |
| follows |
19th-century realism
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Gilded Age culture ⓘ Victorian art ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
abstraction
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break with academic traditions ⓘ experimentation with form ⓘ focus on subjective experience ⓘ formal experimentation ⓘ fragmentation ⓘ interest in the unconscious ⓘ nonlinear narrative ⓘ rejection of traditional realism ⓘ self-reflexivity ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| hasPart |
American literary modernism
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American modernist architecture ⓘ American modernist design ⓘ American modernist painting ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Cubism
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European modernism ⓘ Fauvism ⓘ Freudian psychoanalysis ⓘ Futurism ⓘ Impressionism ⓘ Post-Impressionism ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ World War I ⓘ World War II ⓘ industrialization ⓘ the Great Depression ⓘ
linked to:
Great Depression
the Harlem Renaissance ⓘ
linked to:
Harlem Renaissance
the Jazz Age ⓘ
linked to:
The Jazz Age
urbanization ⓘ |
| mainRegion |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFigure |
Charles Demuth
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Edward Hopper ⓘ Ernest Hemingway ⓘ Ezra Pound ⓘ F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ Georgia O'Keeffe ⓘ
linked to:
Georgia O’Keeffe
Gertrude Stein ⓘ Langston Hughes ⓘ Louis Sullivan ⓘ Marianne Moore ⓘ Mies van der Rohe ⓘ
linked to:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Raymond Loewy ⓘ Stuart Davis ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ Wallace Stevens ⓘ Walter Gropius ⓘ William Faulkner ⓘ Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Abstract Expressionism
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linked to:
Abstract expressionism
American Regionalism ⓘ Harlem Renaissance ⓘ Precisionism ⓘ |
| startTime | early 20th century ⓘ |
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Subject: American modernism Description of subject: American modernism is a 20th-century U.S. artistic and cultural movement characterized by abstraction, experimentation, and a break from traditional European forms in visual art, literature, architecture, and design.
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