modernism lesson 1
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Modernism and post modernism
A2 Media StudiesCritical Perspectives in Media
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Lesson Objectives
• To be introduced to a new unit - post modernism.
• To understand some new terms - Modernism and Postmodernism.
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Modernism• Modernism - A style/movement in the Arts
(Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Literature, Poetry etc.) that challenged traditional and classical forms.
• We might think of this as beginning in the late 1800s. Roughly occurred between 1875 and the mid-1900’s
• Put very simply, the argument is that artists etc. believed that Art needed to change to reflect the change in society - which was becoming more modern, industrial, secular (non-religious) and rational (ideas based on reason and science as opposed to religion).
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Modernist art and architecture - what features
do they have in common? Do you like it?
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Modernist art challenged the realism and illusion of the
romantic era and was often ‘abstract’
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John Constable(Romanticism)
Pablo Picasso (Modernism)
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Modernist art - what views do you
have on it?
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Modernism is self conscious and led to experimentation - artists’ paintings draw attention to themselves and the materials used ie the blob of paint. - E.g. Jackson Pollock
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Modernist architecture
• This skyscraper, the Seagram Building in New York (1956–1958 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's), (right) became the archetypal modernist building.
• What are the main differences between modernist architecture on the right and what came before it? (above left)
• Why was modernist architecture designed in this way?
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Modernist architecture
• Modernist architects and designers believed that buildings should be practically designed - as opposed to decorative Churches or cathedrals in the past
• Modernist designers typically rejected decoration in design, preferring to emphasise the materials used and pure geometrical forms.
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Modernist literature
• Modernist literature is sub-genre of Modernism - characterised by writing that was utopian, positive and reflected great developments in the field of political theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis.
• After WW2, the writing reflected disillusionment and a lack of trust in government and religion, and displayed the fears of a darker side of humanity. (eg T S Eliot’s Wasteland)
• TS Eliot - poet
• EM Forester - novelist
• James Joyce - novelist and poet - Ulysses and Homer’s Odyssey
• D H Lawrence - novelist, poet, playright - Lady Chatterley’s lover
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Modernism• Some argue we moved on to the
postmodern age - from the period following the end of the 2nd World War. This is contentious though - many critics and academics would argue that postmodernism is just a late stage of modernism.
• You’ll see why when you understand what the characteristic/features/techniques of modernism are.
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Modernism• Self-conciousness/self-reflexivity.
• Alternative ways of thinking about representation - rejecting traditional approaches.
• Rejection of realism.
• Experimentation.
• Fragmentation in form and representation.
• Modernism challenged the status quo.
• Modernism retained a belief that rationality and reason were the key to progress.
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Modernism• Self-reflexivity.
(drawing attention to itself as art)
Rejecting traditional ideas about realism and
experimenting with representation.
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Task:• Write up on your blog the time period when
modernity existed and some descriptions of what kind of movement it was and how it featured in the Arts.
• Homework: Add 3 extra examples (each with images) to your blog, of modernist art, architecture and novels (which aren’t in this handout.)