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"The testing of the limits of aesthetic construction. According to this perspective, the Modernists tried to find the outer bounds of certain artistic traits: volatility of emotion (expressionism); stability and inexpressivemess (the new objectivity); accuracy of representation (hyperrealism); absence of representation (abstractionism); purity of form (neoclassicism); formless energy (neobarbarism); cultivation of the technological present (futurism); cultivation of the prehistoric past (they mythic method) ... There exist many Modernisms and each version is likely to describe a period with different terminal dates. If Modernism were defined as heroic disintegration of object and subject, the movement might begin, say, around 1886." (D. Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts, pp. 29, 31).