Dates for Modernism
- 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
What is Modernism?
A specific development or style. We mean a closed chapter, something that happened. Sound like now but ITS NOT.
Modernity
an era, zeitgeist, spirit of the times, mode of consciousness
What does Modernism have faith in?
- Progress
- Science, Technology
- Reason
- Order
- Clarity
- Demystification
- Enlightenment ideals
- Form follows function
- Flatness
- Kant
- Clive Bell- S.f
- Greenburg -avantgaurd
Clement Greenberg on classes
- what are we moving toward?
- what should we not sacrifice?
Technological revolutions in History ar irriveversible. We are moving toward less defined classes and an egalitarian society. We should not sacrifice social mobility.
Greenberg on Leisure
-what does he think about marxs idea
thinks Marxes idea is not good and not what happened. Leisure has become a form of passivity. (TV)
Feelings of Modernism (Hegel)
History is moving-progress
-Perfection is mystical
Feelings of Modernism (Marx)
embraces the emancipation liberation (we are moving to a fair and just society)
Manifesto
Optimistic, demystification
Who dos Greenberg say was the first modernist and why?
Kant- criticism of criticism
