Lecture 9: Modernism

In this lecture we were told about modernism. Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from huge transformations in Western society in the victorian era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief and began Anti-historicism - a belief that there was no need to look backward to older styles.