Modernism describes an array of cultural movements rooted in the changes in Westrn society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It includes reforms in art, architecture, music, and literature. [wikipedia: Modernism] [dictionary.com] noun - modernist adjective - modernistic Modernism refers to a period of social change in the late nineteenth and earl twentieth century. It involved experimentation and fragmentation of the human experience and was characterized by deviations from the norms of society