# Modernism **Domain:** Cultural History / Art / Architecture / Literature **Doc Type:** Movement Router **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Modern Movement]], [[Bauhaus]], [[Mid-Century Modernism]], [[Postmodernism]] --- ## Definition **Modernism** is the broad family of artistic, literary, architectural and intellectual movements that sought forms adequate to modernity: industrialization, urbanization, mass media, new sciences, political rupture and changing experience. This node is a router rather than a single doctrine. In architecture, continue to [[Modern Movement]], [[International Style]] and [[Bauhaus]]. For postwar design, continue to [[Mid-Century Modernism]]. For the critical turn that quotes and contests modernist authority, continue to [[Postmodernism]]. ## Key Insight **Modernism names repeated attempts to make form answer to a world whose inherited forms no longer seemed sufficient.**