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A label that ages worse than the things it tried to outrun.
means Belonging to the present time or recent past, as opposed to the ancient or the old-fashioned.
from From the Late Latin 'modernus,' meaning 'of the present,' built on the Latin adverb 'modo'—'just now, recently.' So at its root, 'modern' literally means 'now-ish,' which is exactly why it keeps slipping: every era inherits the word, points it at itself, and then watches it slide into the past it was supposed to escape. It entered English in the 1500s by way of Old French, and has been outrunning its own meaning ever since.
- latin roots
- From modo, meaning just now, this very moment
- art deadline
- Modern art mostly ended around 1970, decades ago
- forever new
- Every era called itself modern and was wrong
- the irony
- Modernism is now an antique, studied in museums
bauhaus — german design school 1919-1933 that defined modernism across architecture, art, and industrial design
le corbusier's villa savoye — french modernist house built 1928-1931 with pilotis, open floor plan, and machine-for-living principles
international style — architectural movement 1920s-1970s featuring glass, steel, and geometric forms across nyc, barcelona, and tokyo