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  Merrian-Webster Dictionary Online-site provides the reader with the definition, contemporary and up-to-date.  It also provides the word’s etymology and the date from which it was derived, as well as the function of the word. [[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/modernity]]
   
 
 
[[Definition of Modernity]]
 
[[Modernity in Art]]


[[French Influence On American Art]]
The book [[Modernism’s History]] is a analyzation of twentieth-century perceptions, art and it’s focuses.  It is written by Bernard Smith.  One of the aims of the book is to explain the history of modern art over time since the beginning of the Modernization era.  The reader is able to learn more about Descartes, also known as the ‘father of modern philosophy.’  The book also focuses greatly on who the modernists were and their influence on fifteenth century art and it’s fascists.
 
[[Modernity in Society and the Human Mind]]
[Impressions of French Modernity]] by Richard Hobbs focuses just as much on art as in [[Modernism’s History]], but also on literature in France beginning around 1850 up until the 1900’s.  The beginning of the book describes how a painter sees and understands the adjustment of modernity on his own, in the case of Delacroix.  Later on in the book, the reader can find thorough analysis of paintings and sculptures influenced by the contemporary and futuristic time.
 
[[Enlightenment and Modernity]]
 
[[Modernity in American Democracy]]
 
[[The Media and Political Modernity]]
 
[[Summary of Modernity in Art, Politics, and Society]]

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