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Modernist   /mˈɑdərnəst/   Listen
Modernist

noun
1.
An artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles.





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"Modernist" Quotes from Famous Books



... superstitions which are in, and which have grown up around, the Bible. All Spinoza's major conclusions have been embodied directly or indirectly in what is now known as "the higher criticism" of the Bible, which is the basis of the Modernist movement. It was Spinoza who established the fact that the Pentateuch is not, as it is reputed to be, the work of Moses. It was Spinoza, also, who first convincingly showed that other of the Scriptural documents were compiled by ...
— The Philosophy of Spinoza • Baruch de Spinoza
... not compassion for the intellectual difficulties of the average man which has made Dr. Inge a conservative modernist, if so I may call him. Sentiment of no kind whatever has entered into the matter. He is a conservative modernist because his reason has convinced him of the truth of reasonable modernism, because he has "that intellectual honesty which dreads what ...
— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie


Words linked to "Modernist" :   modernism, artist, creative person


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