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Information and Guide to Anglo-Irish writer Samuel Beckett created and maintained in Dublin, Ireland

The work of Samuel Beckett flows against the modernist tradition as highlighted by Joyce.

Definition of the Modern

• espousing the ideals and aesthetics of Modernism We use "modernist" as opposed to "modern" because "modern" = "contemporary" "modernist" refers to a particular style of architecture which is influenced (to varying degrees) by the work of Bauhaus and International Style.This is a tricky definition because it can imply reverence for some of the most brutal work of the 20th Century. ...
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• In art history, this term refers to the philosophies of art made in Europe and the United States during a period roughly from 1860s through the 1970s when certain artists began to take radical steps away from traditional art in order to be deliberately different, critical, and often dissenting from the dominant official taste. ...
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• an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles
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• Modernism in the cultural historical sense is generally defined as the new artistic and literary styles that emerged in the decades before 1914 as artists rebelled against the late 19th century norms of depiction and literary form, in an attempt to present what they regarded as an emotionally truer picture of how people really feel and think.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist

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French Feminists and Anglo-Irish Modernists