Modernism

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Modernism

Embraces the fragmentation

Modernist Optimism

Modernism, in the fine arts, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.

Modernism

Embraces the new and experimentation.

Modernism

Embraces the fragmentation

Free verse

Writers wanted to refine the language of poetry in order to make it a vehicle for the exact description and evocation of mood. To this end they experimented with free or irregular verse and made the image their principal instrument.

Post-Modernism

1945 - ?

 1960 - ? 

Defies definition

Post-modernist doubt

Anti-authoritatian

Refuses any style or definition of what art should be

Po mo

Rejects the concepts of high and low culture

Po Mo

is self-conscious...

How do we know what is real?

Relate the question in the previous slide to the picture.

Po Mo

is eclectic...

Mixing different artistic and popular styles and media