robbing Great Britain of an intelligent and astute leader”(“Victorian Era”). Modernism was then introduced‚ and took over the first four decades of twentieth century and dominated (Dettmar 1). Modernism began to surface in 1901 and took over artistic productions such as visual‚ musical‚ design‚ and literary arts until 1939 (Dettmar 1). “Modernism can be split into two categories: Modernism and Post-Modernism. Early Modernists used elements of experimentation‚ freedom‚ radicalism‚ and utopianism
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gender identity‚ globalisation growth‚ political power etc. Introduction The expression of Art has always been influential; many artists use it as a tactic to exploit political truths and ideas. Postmodernism is a “movement reacting against modernism‚ especially by drawing attention to former conventions” (pg821). This form of art allowed a new way of looking at reality in a society that is constantly reassessing its culture and values. Postmodern art focuses on a mixture of high and low cultures
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climate of English poetry. Eliot initiated a new brand of poetry of the city‚ poetry essentially cerebral‚ impersonal‚ predominantly imagistic‚ insistently urbane & ironic‚ characteristically observational. Eliot’s modernity(or should it be called ’Modernism’?) can be understood with reference to the following: a) His theory of impersonality; b) His observations on the monotony‚ aridity‚ squalor of the big cities: the boredom and the horror; c) The revival of the Metaphysical tradition of wit‚ allusion
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Abstract: Modernism provides many of the major works that continue to define what literature and painting are. Understanding Modernism (between about 1870 and 1939) is essential for understanding modern literature. Can only gifted students understand Modernism? Can only gifted students understand modern literature and art? The focus here is on classics of prose‚ poetry and painting that are interesting in themselves and help to make sense of the period of cultural crisis that defined abstraction
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Postmodernism and film This chapter will demonstrate the ways in which Jean Baudrillard’s and Fredric Jameson’s accounts of the postmodern have had a significant impact on the field of film studies‚ affecting both film theory and history. The most influential aspects of each theorist’s work are outlined in the first two sections. The first section focuses on two key texts by Baudrillard: Simulations and America‚ while the second addresses Jameson’s famous article “Postmodernism and Consumer
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culture and society‚ making people more aware of issues they never really addressed before‚ with also some of the artists continuing on using the shock value to make a statement in their work. Also following on from dada in the 1960’s with post modernism there was pop art and neo-Dadaism. Abstract
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http://caio.ueberalles.net/modernism/modernism.pdf English Literature I Caio Begotti Definition of Modernism and Critical Approach UFPR June 13 th 20101. Introduction We may better understand what exactly is modernism (focusing literature) if we take a look at the possible vernacular definitions or registered in a dictionary of what is modern‚ what makes modernism and what led us to modernity. It is wide known that whatever allow us to call something modern is still part of a ongoing
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Modernism was a time when the definition of what was considered art drastically changed. A piece of art used to relate to how realistic that piece looked. Now art can be anything and could be distorted from reality to express a message. One artist at that time was Lyonel Feininger. Feininger was inspired by the Gothic style and his first trip to Germany in 1906 led to paintings of two medieval churches(“Regler Church‚ Erfurt.”). Lyonel first made a charcoal drawing of Regler Church in Erfurt Germany
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break‚ a relation to a period that has happened before. In the case of post-modernism the previous period is undoubtedly ‘modernism’. Thus‚ postmodernism refers to a breakdown of the distinction between culture and society - emergence of a social order in which the importance and power of the mass media and popular culture means that they govern and shape all forms of social relationships. For Lyotard‚ a key post-modernism theorist‚ the post-modern condition is neither a periodizing concept nor does
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THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN ART Cubism New attitudes towards pictorial space and geometric abstraction with geometric planes (but still based on real objects) - Influenced by African tribal masks/ breaking natural objects into planes/shapes. - Figures simultaneously seen from more than one view through relationships of geometric planes. - Analytical cubism based on process of human vision‚ eyes scan a subject then compile it into a whole. - Introduced collage‚ allowed for composition free of
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