Modernism

Modernism has largely shaped todays built environment. The buildings inhabited, the furniture used, the surrounding graphic design, has all been influenced by the aesthetics and the ideology of Modernist design. The Modernists believed in technology as the key means to achieve social improvement and in the machine as a symbol of that aspiration. They fostered a utopian desire to create a better world. These principles were frequently combined with social and largely left-leaning political…

In the text titled "Monuments, Modernism and the Public Space" authors Pam Meecham and Julie Sheldon explore how urbinisation affected monuments especially when they were used to beautify and signify an entire city's identity or history. In this text there are two main focal points in which the authors expand on and a look into todays monuments status. They firstly focus on how contrasting message-wise the socialist and democratic monuments are, even though they appear to be similar in form and…

During World War I the Victorian era came to its end, entering a new era that would impact history to this day. The Modernist era was born. Many writers turned away from the traditional writing of morality and being to write about the world along with its powerful impact. In this time of war there was a message that had to get through to the people and many writers used their stories to get that point across, for example F Scott Fitzgerald, “You don 't write because you want to say something,…

1. What did “modernism” mean in the 1960’s, for art writers such as Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried? In the late 1950’s and 60’s, modernistic art was referred to as ‘high modernism’. This term was generated by Greenberg’s well thought out and expressive theorizations of modern art. At that time, there were numerous issues in regards to modern art. The art market was growing at an accelerated rate due to the variation in artistic approaches in a fast pace and competitive world. As a result,…

J Buchanan Activity 6 V1 Edwards Weston’s ‘Pepper No.30’ fits into ‘Modernism’ because: This new way of expression through the medium of photography rejected emotional intent and painterly effects for real, sharp actual images. The change was due to society thinking the past was outdated a new social and political emergence of the industrial world was reshaping our outlook on life. A group of American Modernist photographers called themselves the F64 club. F64 relating to long exposure…

Linearity and Organic Architecture Modernisms - AR548 Jed Cracknell Word Count: • Introduction o Nature in modern architecture o Leading to organic architecture Linearity is a theme seen throughout architecture from the modernist era. It is present in many different styles such as Frank Lloyd Wrights Prairie School Style of architecture seen around the 1890’s to 1920’s. Following this Frank Lloyd Wright’s Textile style of architecture is seen to have strong links to…

“Modernism is a cultural trend that arose in the western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries following the horror of the World War I”. . . .“Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, and activities of daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world”…

simplicity. "Poet Ezra Pound is credited for bringing the techniques of literary modernism to the United States in the early 20th century"(Modernism, 894). However, the Modernist Era arose in the 20th century and throughout WWII. Modernism was inspired by the experimentation of: new literary techniques, forms, subjects, and structures. "Modernists reavealed important emotions and ideas with understatement and irony"(Modernism, 895). Rather than declaring the meaning of their poems, authors used…

Modernism means “integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity.” This quote by Paul Rand demonstrates the bias towards modernism. However, there are pros and cons for both traditionalism and modernism. While traditionalism holds to conventional morals and ideas, modernism explores new concepts and leaves room for imagination. This is shown by the vaccine controversy, the short story “Everyday Use," and…

discover objective truth”(Groothuis, para. 7). Deconstructing such a definition, modernism believes that faith and reason cannot be adequately juxtaposed. Thus, modernism asserts that science and reason discover truth. Often purported as an extension of modernism, post-modernism flatly denies modernism's quest for truth. Groothuis, in his book, Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Post-Modernism comments that “’Truth’ [in the Post-Modern mindset] is considered to be an…