pre-modernismn.
/ˌpriːˈmɒdn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌpriːˈmɒdənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌpriˈmɑdərnˌɪz(ə)m/ Esp. in literature and the arts: any of various styles, movements, or viewpoints characteristic of the period preceding the advent of modernism.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > specific movement or period
cinquecento1762
classicality1784
romanticism1821
classicism1827
Renaissance1836
classicalism1840
Queen Anne1863
classic1864
renascence1868
classical1875
modernism1879
New Romanticism1885
Colonial Revival1887
shogun1889
super-realism1890
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
camerata1900
peasantism1903
proto-Renaissance1903
Biedermeier1905
expressionism1908
futurism1909
Georgianism1911
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
German expressionism1920
expressionismus1925
Negro Renaissance1925
super-realism1925
settecento1926
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
Sachlichkeit1930
neo-Gothicism1932
socialist realism1933
modernismus1934
Harlem Renaissance1940
organicism1945
avant-gardism1950
nouvelle vague1959
bricolage1960
kitchen-sinkery1964
black art1965
neo-modernism1966
Yuan1969
conceptualism1970
sound art1972
pre-modernism1976
Afrofuturism1993
1976 Boundary 2 5 144 Writers such as Bellow, Styron, and Malamud, who can be seen as extending the approaches of modernism (or even pre-modernism), no longer dominate.
1995 Irish Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. 12 An underrated composer of the unfashionable verismo school of Italian premodernism.
2001 S. Cullenberg et al. Postmodernism, Econ. & Knowl. i. 22 To be radically different is to suggest a sea-change rather than a search and recovery mission (finding the remnants of a discarded pre-modernism at the bottom of the vast modernist ocean).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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