high modernism
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of modernity prevalent during the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It is not just that the borders between high and low have begun to blur significantly after high modernism in the West, bringing some critics to misread the Latin American boom novel as a kind of postmodernism avant la lettre […]"
- "The idea that silence suits serious art goes back to the age of high modernism in the 1950s. It is hard to imagine Mark Rothko calling an exhibition "Daddy, I Want to Be a Jewish Artist" or indeed calling it anything at all. His paintings have plain titles such as Red on Maroon."