Modernist theorists were preoccupied with obtaining the truth and reality and sought to develop theories which contained certainty and predictability.

Modernist theorists therefore viewed discourse as being relative to talking or way of talking and understood discourse to be functional.

There were fewer examples in Czechoslovakia, although the Modernist architects and theorists such as Karel Teige were criticized, while statues to Stalin were designed, one of the most grandiose of which was in Prague.

Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, primarily to promote continuity and accuracy.

Structuralism was a broad philosophical movement that developed particularly in France in the 1950s, partly in response to French Existentialism, but is considered by many to be an exponent of High-Modernism, though its categorization as either a Modernist or Postmodernist trend is contested.

Modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is associated with the phrase " less is more "; in contrast Venturi famously said, " Less is a bore.

He claims that the Mass of Paul VI uses a Modernist method of mixing traditional language with Protestant language to appeal to both sides, and thus falling into heresy, in the same way as the Church of England is said to be " both Catholic and Reformed ".

Williams is strongly associated with the American Modernist movement in literature and saw his poetic project as a distinctly American one ; he sought to renew language through the fresh, raw idiom that grew out of America's cultural and social heterogeneity, at the same time freeing it from what he saw as the worn-out language of British and European culture.

The rural Catalan scene it depicts is augmented by an avant-guarde French newspaper in the center, showing Miró sees this work transformed by the Modernist theories he had been exposed to in Paris.

* The worship of Yemanjá by the fishermen of Bahia, Brazil, is a central element of the 1936 Modernist novel Mar Morto ( Dead Sea ) by the famous Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, himself a native of that state.

Imagism is also significant historically as the first organised Modernist English language literary movement or group.

The best known example of deck-access flats in the UK is Park Hill, Sheffield, where the decks are wide enough to allow electric vehicles ; however, the design is inspired by French Modernist architect Le Corbusier, particularly his Unite D ' Habitation in Marseilles.

The Central Business District that Gdynia developed is a showcase of Art Deco and Modernist architectural styles and predominate much of the cityscape.

He is best known as a painter in Paris, where he was strongly identified with the Modernist movement and the artistic circles of Montparnasse.

She is currently writing " Berlin Notes ," based on a six month sabbatical visit to that city ( the first chapter was a cover feature in Prairie Fire Fall 2003 ), and co-editing two volumes of proceedings from the conference / festival, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry ( University of Windsor, 2001 ), with Barbara Godard, of York University.

" Avant Garde and Kitsch " is clearly a politically motivated essay, in part a response to the destruction and repression of Modernist Art in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and represents an early denouncement of the growing totalitarian threat in Europe and the " retrogression " of fascism.

Post-Painterly Abstraction is generally seen as continuing the Modernist dialectic of self-criticism.

The Central Business District that developed in Gdynia is a showcase of Art Deco and Modernist architectural styles and predominate much of the cityscape.

" What makes Birmingham so exceptional among the Red Brick universities is the deployment of so many other major Modernist practices: only Oxford and Cambridge boast greater selections ".

Modernist architect Nicholas Grimshaw designed the Eden Project in Cornwall, which is the world's largest greenhouse.

Modernist poetry in English is generally considered to have emerged in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists.

" In a Station of the Metro " is an early work of Modernist poetry as it attempts to " break from the pentameter ", incorporates the use of visual spacing as a poetic device, and does not contain any verbs.

Modernist philosophy and art were still viewed as only a part of the larger social movement.

In direct contradiction to what have been typified as Modernist perspectives on epistemology, Foucault asserted that rational judgment, social practice and what he called ' biopower ' are not only inseparable but co-determinant.

Ironically the Max Meldrum-led Australian Tonalism movement, which rejected modernist art and promoted a unique form of painting in accordance with Meldrum's theories of art, has since been recognized as a precursor to Modernist forms of art, including Minimalism, and art historian Bernard William Smith noted that Meldrum is perhaps the only Australian artist to develop and practice his own fully formulated theory of painting.

The hall's design is unashamedly Modernist, the Festival's commissioning architect ( Hugh Casson ) having taken the decision to appoint only young architects.

MASP is known not only for its excellent collection of European and national paintings, sketches, and sculptures by Renoir, Picasso and Modernist Brazilian authors, but also for the dubious-tasted modern architecture of its building, whose exhibition room is made of a single block of concrete and glass windows suspended and supported by two vertical concrete columns so the view of 9 de Julho Avenue and the Cantareira mountain range north of here is not spoiled.

I wrote a piece called " Modernist Painting " that got taken as a program when it was only a description, and I was thought to believe in things that I was describing a program.

The artist subsequently went on to transform the house's small c. 1885 gymnasium into a colorfully Modernist private theatre, which is currently believed to be the only extant private theatre designed by Bakst.

The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design.

However, he believed that ' a painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints ', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist, helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as the loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man.

Modernist styles of music have also appealed to composers writing for the modern grand piano, including John Cage and Philip Glass.

It also saw the growth of Fundamentalist Christianity ( a movement of those who believed in the literal interpretation of the Bible as the fundamental source of the religion ) as distinguished from Modernist Christianity ( a movement holding the belief that Christianity needed to be re-interpreted in light of modern scientific theories such as evolution or the rise of degraded social conditions brought on by industrialization and urbanization ).

International style, Modernist and Mid-century modern architecture were earlier innovators of this passive penetration and reflection in industrial, commercial, and residential applications.

**" Modernist constructivism " correlates the emergence of ethnicity with the movement towards nationstates beginning in the early modern period.

The Classical-era poet Virgil ( Publius Vergilius Maro, 70 – 19 BC ) continued this literary narrative technique in the Aeneid, which is part of the Greek literary tradition of imitating Homer, medias in res narration further continued in early modern poetry with Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ), by Torquato Tasso, Paradise Lost ( 1667 ), by John Milton, and generally in Modernist literature.

However, as various critics have remarked, Rodrigues ' theater and narrative fiction partake of a deeply felt conservative streak shared by other Modernist Brazilian writers ( Raul Pompéia, Octavio de Faria, Lúcio Cardoso, among others ) a moral anguish before modern society and the menaces offered by it to traditional religiosity and morals: the flaunting of traditional sexual taboos, specially, being felt as sharply increasing an awareness of moral guilt for living in a society felt as increasingly amoral, where the old hierarchies and taboos were being actively destroyed.

His attempts to evolve and adapt Catholic teaching in the context of modern ideas made him a key figure in the Modernist controversy within the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th century.

Still others, such as Robinson Jeffers ( 1887 – 1962 ), adopted Modernist freedom while remaining aloof from Modernist factions and programs.

Apart from Anglo-Saxon architecture, the major forms of non-vernacular architecture employed in England before 1900 originated elsewhere in western Europe, chiefly in France and Italy, while 20th-century Modernist architecture derived from both European and American influences.

The Hotel, like earlier English novels in which critics have identified lesbian themes, is marked by complete reticence, while Orlando may have been protected by its Modernist playfulness.