formal qualities of an artwork and media and techniques. Post-modern This frame involves examining how artists and artworks challenge traditional boundaries and rules and conventions in art including concepts of originality and authenticity. It also corresponds to ideas about politics‚ society and culture and looks at how artists often appropriate (borrow) ideas or imagery from other sources/artists. MODERNISM Defining Modernism: - Refers to the period dating from about the 1860s to 1970s
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Modernism in the 1920s consisted of the middle class perception and how their life was changing not to mention the offers that were within their reach. New products or ideas to the normal way of life was also a part of modernism. Many new technologies awed and changed so many lives. Plus new looks regarding fashion and new appearences for both sexes. In the 1920s life was changing some for the best but also for the worst. For example credit in many ways was and still is a positive while at the
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Themes of Modernism The term Modernism refers to the shift in values and cultural awareness that appeared in the art and literature of the post- World War One period. Modernism showed that there had been a change since the previous Victorian period. The Victorian era and its literature showed a very optimistic outlook on life‚ but the new era of Modernism rejected this idea and chose to portray life to be extremely pessimistic. Many of the Modern writers showed the world and society to be in an
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Modernism describes the ideology of the art and design that were produced during the modernist period. There has been a lot of controversy about when modernism started‚ yet many believe it initiated sometime in the late 19th century and continued to the early 20th century. The modernist movement was meant to be a break from traditions and it was set up to separate the value of certain works from the conservative realism. For instance‚ Unlike the traditional art that was aesthetic‚ this movement was
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‘modernization’‚ ‘modernity’ and ‘modernism’ as wel as authors who consider Latin America a ‘problem’ that has allowed artists and intellectuals to ask important questions about nationhood‚ identity‚ and modern life.’ (p. 284‚ Coffee & Tejada) “The encounter between Europe and the ‘Indies’‚ and the ‘subjection of one by the other‚ has been known throughout history by several names: invasion‚ migration or foundation’ (p.284 Coffee & Tejada) ‘Latin American modernism‚ by necessity‚ engages with the
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with talking vultures in "Their Eyes were Watching God) Minimalism Extreme restriction of a work’s contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements Minimalism Authors include Samuel Beckett‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ and the imagists Modernism A general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature and other arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ mainly in Europe and North America. The movement’s literature is characterized
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PRACTICE ESSAY "truth is a mutating‚ subjective figure in streetcar with each of the principals having different relationship with the idea of truth" How does Tennessee Williams express these relationships and what role do they have on the narrative? • Make sure you think carefully about the play‚ details‚ allusions‚ themes of the play that you can incorporate • Undermining the academics of the play • Have insights from the play that leak into your own ideas and narrative
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(Architecturerevived‚ 2011) in society. This essay will discuss ways in which the architect Robert Venturi adopts methods to overcome these tendencies that architecture has lost meaning and ways in which he attempts to remove himself with any links with the ‘post-modernist’ movement that he is viewed in having. Modern Architects saw their role as ‘reformers‚’ (R.Venturi‚ 1966‚ pg16) and tended to break with tradition and start anew. Considering it was a new revolutionary movement they tended to ignore potential
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Prufrock and Modernism Modernist literature is the representation of the societal crises and disorientation which was resultant of the burgeoning industrialisation and mechanisation of society in the 20th century. This instigated an evolution of thought which challenged the preconceived notions and boundaries enforced by society and gave rise to new perceptions in relation to the world. Modernism is marked by experimentation‚ and in particular the manipulation of form. This is evident in T.S Eliot’s
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The Moderns 1914-1939 The American Dream: Pursuit of a Promise Modernism called for bold experimentation and wholesale rejection of traditional themes and styles. America is considered a land of new Eden: a land of beauty‚ bounty‚ and unlimited promise. The American Dream is based on optimism‚ opportunity‚ progress. A Crack in a the World: Breakdown of Beliefs and Traditions The center of literary life had shifted from New England and spread across America. Two new theories‚ Marxism and psychoanalysis
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