Modernism
1914 – 1945
High season is when it was modernism at its peak when most people who were involved in the arts and in literature were identifying themselves as modernists
umbrella movement which in a way is made up of many different of what we can call sub movements some of these you will be familiar with : impressionism, expressionism, imagism, symbolism, primitivism, Dadaism, surrealism, futurism, cubism
if you want to understand the situation this is the best way to understand the situation and the character to let this character reveal himself or herself this is why modernists novels are lot more difficult to read
came as a kind of innovative force try to change and transform to revolutionize European culture in genera
- Modernism as a result of destruction of W.W.I (war as apocalypse, ending and beginning).
- “fin de siècle” and “aube de siècle”.
- Modernism as a result of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
- 20th century brings new literature and art.
- Abrupt break with tradition, major shift.
- Embracing “modernity”, making new, being part of the “Avant garde”.
- Modernity is a new consciousness that emerges from rapid change.
- Changing human relations and changing human subject.
- Modernism includes a variety of movements.
- Impressionism, expressionism, imagism, symbolism,primitivism, Dadaism surrealism, futurism, cubism.
- Emphasis on movements, developing group’s cohesion and solidarity.
- Artists standing apart from conventional bourgeois lifestyle and outlook.
- Artists or literary movements operating like political and social movements.
- Fashion of manifestoes making movement principle public.
- Placing emphasis on novelty, experimentation, newness, sophistication difficulty.
- Expressing sense of disintegration, alienation, bleakness, meaninglessness, and absurdity.
Some characteristics
- Free verse in poetry.
- Reflection on poetic language.
- Stream of consciousness in the novel.
- Anti-representationalism in painting.
- Atonalism in music.
- Simple and functional style in architecture.
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Modernism refers to the broad that was associated with the western society in the work of arts, architecture and that rejected the concept of self-consciously. It rejected that idea that the past art work would define the present work of arts and stressed on the qualities of the artwork. The main characteristic of this………….
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