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| Note created | Feb 13, 2026 |
A broad intellectual and cultural movement that emerged across Europe and North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, embracing innovation, abstraction, and a break from tradition across art, architecture, literature, and design. Key figures span disciplines—James Joyce, Le Corbusier, Virginia Woolf, Pablo Picasso—united by a belief in progress and formal experimentation. It grew from the upheavals of industrialization and World War I, responding to the exhaustion of Romanticism and academic conventions.