Aside from introducing his 10 authors, Mr. Bradbury's main purpose here is of course to show how their work defined literary modernism.

As a critic and designer, Mr. Johnson helped define and popularize International-style modernism in New York City.

An emphasis on surface came to help define modernism.

His biomorphic tables and desks, made by Herman Miller, were the first examples of biomorphic furniture manufactured in America, anticipating forms that would define mid-century modernism.

Above, I defined modernism in terms of disruption of the values of order, repose, stability, authority, and consonance associated with a national (or urban) bourgeoisie.

His robotic figures, hilariously deadpan and vaguely Art Deco, define machine-age modernism.

Her contemporaries defined modernism by function; she added comfort and wit.

The gatherings in the Stein home "brought together confluences of talent and thinking that would help define modernism in literature and art."

The first major show in this country in years of the French master whose robotic figures, hilariously deadpan and vaguely Art Deco, define machine-age modernism.

His style helped define British modernism.