books.google.ca - What was Modernism, and why does it still matter? The term itself first gained currency in the 1930s, describing a kind of art that already may have peaked, some would say as early as 1922. Whatever its ups and downs in its own time, as the novelist Julian Barnes claims in one of the twenty essays commissioned...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Make_It_New.html?id=qmAQFj4ffRgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMake It New