Modernism Quotes

The interest in modernism worldwide is so tremendous. - Peter Moruzzi

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? - John C. Ransom

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. - Larry Wall

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. - Andrew Eldritch

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. - Elizabeth Wilson

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. - Robert Hewison

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs. - David Guterson

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. - Catharine MacKinnon

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. - Terry Eagleton

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. - John Berger