"Moving Modernisms"? aims to reconsider our understanding of modernism by situating the modernist aesthetic as an affective response to a world where a sense of place and spatial relations are undergoing fundamental change. The word "moving" can refer to a change of position or location, feelings and emotions that touch one and the impetus to act or make something happen.

In a modernist context, the notion of moving calls to mind the interplay between modernism as an era of ...