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Modernity’ Establishing the founding principles of human ‘progress’

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‘Modernity’

Establishing the founding principles of human ‘progress’

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Medieval Torture: The Bloody Code

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From Bloody Code …

• Why do you think people were punished / tortured in this way?

• Do you think it was effective?• What role did ‘religion’ play in this?

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France: 1757

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… towards Enlightenment

• Sapere Aude! • Dare to use your own ‘reason’– Death of religion, tradition (birth of science/rationality

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France: 1837

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Panopticon

• Discipline the Soul• Rehabilitation• ‘Cure’ the

problem of crime• Surveillance &

Control

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Back to Dada …

• Dada is a form of Early Modernist Art• What was Dada all about?• A ‘reaction’ to what (what was it a challenge

against)?

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Jackson Pollock

• Late Modernist• Total newness & creativity …• Taking Art in new adventurous directions