Modernism | The Problematics of European Modernism
In the following essay excerpt, Sheppard explores the problems inherent in fully defining of European Modernism and its impetus.
Methodological Introduction
In one of the earliest attempts to come to terms with modernism as a total phenomenon, the Czech Formalist, Jan Mukarovsk˝, began by stating that ‘the notion of “modernism” is very indefinite’. Thirty-five years later, Monroe K. Spears echoed that sentiment when he prefaced an important book on the same subject by observing that ‘Modernism is, of course, an impossible subject’. Shortly after that, the editors of one of the most widely disseminated anthologies of essays on the topic wrote in their introduction:
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