Modernism

social commentator and enthusiastic - lover of all things modernism. The series explores the story of our Australian suburban landscape over the last 60 years, focusing on the development of our post war suburban architecture. It examines the success and popular culture of visionary architects from the 1950 's and 60's. Architects like Robyn Boyd, Sydney Ancher, Roy Grounds and Harry Seidler whom adopted the international style of modernism Streets of Your Town is a two-part ABC series, hosted…

English Vorticism are generally considered to be Modernist movements. Indeed, literary scholar Peter Childs includes Futurism and Vorticism in his seminal book aptly titled Modernism, placing them amongst other Modernist movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism (14). In one of Childs’s many definitions of Modernism, he argues that the movement is imbued with “radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic rather than chronological form, self-conscious…

2. The Crying of Lot 49: modernism or postmodernism? In my arguing that The Crying of Lot 49 can also be construed as a late-modernist text, I will turn to Harvey’s essay ‘The Cry from Within or Without? Pynchon and the Modern – Postmodern Divide’ where he fervently argues against McHale’s ‘claim’ that The Crying of Lot 49 is fundamentally a modernist text by presenting two core arguments relating to a) intertextuality and b) Oedipa’s search for truth. Before I will dispute any arguments of…

“The famous ‘modern break with tradition’ has lasted long enough to have produced its own tradition” (Rosenberg 9). Harold Rosenberg, in his famous essay, “The Tradition of the New” (1960), brings up a fundamental aspect about artistic innovations—they eventually become part of the system they disrupted. A variation on this theme is found in one of T.S. Eliot’s most influential texts—“Tradition and Individual Talent” (1917). For Eliot, tradition is not inherited; it is produced within a network…

environments. For the first time in American history, a fresh and innovative, at the time radical, movement sprung up due to the observations and claims that Jacobs proposed in her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. During the 1950’s, modernism had already become an established (and universally accepted) ethos in American city planning. Jane Jacobs witnessed the shortcomings of the modernist city planning paradigms first-hand and became quickly renowned for her expertise in this…

the trademark of Bauhaus typography. Joint efforts between Bauhaus, Lissitzky, Van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters (German Dada craftsman) in mid-thirties made another outline approach that was known over the world. References Masters of Modernism (2004) [Online]. [Accessed 7 August 2017]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/30/soviet-architecture-royal-academy-review> http://copof10.umwblogs.org/multimedia-rpt-list/new-formalism/…

Henry Van de Velde in Modern Architecture Henry Van de Velde existed during the movements of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism. He is said to be the father of both Art Nouveau and Modernism and the ideals and theories of design that belong to each movement. Van de Velde was a painter and architect obsessed with the activation of the line. The curve was a true form of organic expression and became an idea that accompanied the work of Van de Velde. Another desire of Van de…

According to Dr. Ryan Scherbart, postmodernism is the rejecting of the traditional modernism values, it is more about relativism rather than the idea of objectivism like modernism. Unlike modernism, which emphasized on reasoning, science or progression, postmodernism is more about the freedom of individuals, rejecting fixity and questing our authorities. There many reasons why postmodernism…

Shawn Khan Mrs. Mikowski Hamlit 11 1 Feb 2012 Literary Periods Text Analysis In the song “The Dog Days Are Over” by Florence+ The Machine, the text gives rise to the idea of Realism. Realism is generalized with having an objective narrator, and leaves the reader to interpret the story in his or her own way. This occurred after the Civil War when Post War writers focused on creating works that did not idealize people or like transcendentalism. Basically, writers wrote truthfully…

Arising out of a rebellious mood, the late 19th and early 20th century was a time where many writers broke away from tradition by using modernism to take a radical approach on the way society viewed modern literature (Modernism/literature.com). Experimentation and individualism became virtues, where before they were looked down upon. Modernism was set in motion after a series of cultural shocks. The first of these great shocks was the Great War, known now as World War One. At the time, this “War…