Modernism Flashcards

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Dates for Modernism

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  • Copernicus:16th C
  • 1855-Courbet
  • 1910- sudden transformation of visual art
  • Industrial Revolution: 18th C
  • 25 Vendemiane Year 2
  • French Revolution/American Revolution 18th C
  • Impressionism
  • 18th C Enlightenment
  • Kant: 18th C
  • 1856 Madame Borarry -Fleur de Mel
  • Mis 19th C to WWI - progressive society thinking
  • 16 October 1793
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What is Modernism?

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A specific development or style. We mean a closed chapter, something that happened. Sound like now but ITS NOT.

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Modernity

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an era, zeitgeist, spirit of the times, mode of consciousness

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What does Modernism have faith in?

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  • Progress
  • Science, Technology
  • Reason
  • Order
  • Clarity
  • Demystification
  • Enlightenment ideals
  • Form follows function
  • Flatness
  • Kant
  • Clive Bell- S.f
  • Greenburg -avantgaurd
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Clement Greenberg on classes

  • what are we moving toward?
  • what should we not sacrifice?
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Technological revolutions in History ar irriveversible. We are moving toward less defined classes and an egalitarian society. We should not sacrifice social mobility.

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Greenberg on Leisure

-what does he think about marxs idea

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thinks Marxes idea is not good and not what happened. Leisure has become a form of passivity. (TV)

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Feelings of Modernism (Hegel)

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History is moving-progress

-Perfection is mystical

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Feelings of Modernism (Marx)

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embraces the emancipation liberation (we are moving to a fair and just society)

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Manifesto

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Optimistic, demystification

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Who dos Greenberg say was the first modernist and why?

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Kant- criticism of criticism

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