Modernism Quote by James K.A. Smith

“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate its claim…

— James K.A. Smith

“Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is “incredulity toward metanarratives” is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to recover (a)…

— James K.A. Smith

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

— Mel Bochner

Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the…

— James Elkins

“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a…

— Brian Celio

“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.”

— Veronica Hollinger

“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again…

— Peter Watson

“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a…

— Robert Musil

Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term…

— Nicolas Bourriaud

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

— Will Self

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense…

— George C. Wolfe

“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and…

— Frank Kermode