... the modernist movement brought forth: "Modernism lurks in its sequel, haunts it. The very fact that a phenomenon is called 'postmodernism'- that it differs from modernism by nothing more than a prefix- pays tribute to the power of modernism's cultural force field and suggests that postmodernism might be no more (or less) than an aftermath or hiatus" (Gitlin, 1989). As modernism clearly has importance within the cultural movement of the postmodern, and as postmodernism seems intrinsically linked to its predecessor it is therefore imperative to detail the characteristics of the cultural movement that is modernism. Modernism is often seen as intrinsically linked with western thought and values and focused on the idea of a global view of the world, which was based on the idea of the purity of all mediums and the possibility for universal communication. As modernism is primarily a western notion it is again evident that ...

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