MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLDWEEK 14

MODERNISM

Paul Cézanne, Melting Snow, Fontainebleau (1879-80)

Claude Monet, The Luncheon (1873)

Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86)

Pablo Picasso, The Guitar Player (1910)

Georges Braque, Man with a Guitar (1911)

Juan Gris, The Guitar (1913)

Georges Braque, Glass, Carafe and Newspapers (1914)

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)

This book cover, published in 1925 by the Hogarth Press, was designed by the painter Vanessa Bell.

In 1904 she moved with her sister and two brothers to 46 Gordon Square where they started the famous Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists.

Vincent Van Gogh, Self-portrait (1889)

Edvard Munch, Self-portrait with Burning Cigarette (1895)

The first ‘Futurist Manifesto’ (1909)

… We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty; the beauty of speed ... We will glorify war–the world’s only hygiene ... We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicoloured, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capital.

The first ‘Futurist Manifesto’ (1909)

Edvard Munch, study for By the Deathbed (1895)

Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, from ‘Los Caprichos’ (1797-99)

Salvador Dalí, Invention of the Monsters (1937)

Barnado Child, 1898

Cork Cathedral. Laying the Foundation Stone (1865)

Georges Seurat, Detail from A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86)

Charles L. Weed (1824-1903), The Valley (1860s)

Paul Cezanne, Mont Saint-Victoire (1904-5)

From about 1880 to the outbreak of World War 1 a series of sweeping changes in technology created distinctive new modesof thinking about experiencing time and space. Technological innovations including the telephone, wireless telegraph, x-ray, cinema, bicycle, automobile, and airplane, established the material foundation for this reorientation.

Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918

Le Corbusier, architect

Unité d’habitation, Berlin; erected 1959

Another view of Unité d’habitation

Photograph showing the Humanities Building c. 1964.

Source: University of Warwick, Modern Records Centre, Warwick University Archive.Image from the exhibition `The Idea of a University’, Mead Gallery, June 2010.

Corridor in one of the Unité blocks

Somewhere in West Yorkshire

Council housing,

South London.

`Fentiman Road/Meadow Road, Lambeth, London, England, 20th century’.

Hulme Crescents, Manchester, c. 1990

From brick walls to `The Wall in the Head’.