And an attempt at

Does the highlighted sentence mean "when modernism was still undergoing a process of development and was also trying to consolidate approaches and attitudes"?

Context:
The emergence of postmodern approaches in the visual arts has been situated by Scott Lash in the early part of the twentieth century, when modernism was still undergoing a process of development and an attempt at consolidation of approaches and attitudes (Art and Advertising by Joan Gibbons).