The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic cultural sensibilities evdent in the art and literature of the post- World War period. The ordered, stable and inherently meanigful worldveiw of the nineteenth century could not, wrote T.S. Eliot, accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history. "Modernism thus marks a distinctive break w/ Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism, they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. This despair often resuts in an apparent and moral relativism.
2006-10-28 13:55:04 · 4 answers · asked by peace l 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The term modernism refers to the way that art and literature changed in reference to the way that people looked at it. Both in the things seen with the eye (Art) and read in pros,(literature).
In the post war period. The order, stability , and worldwide view of the 19th century could not relate to the futility and anarchy of the Victorian morality. Rejecting the optimism of the 19th century they presented a very pessimistic view of a culture in chaos.
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2006-10-28 14:12:31 · answer #1 · answered by It All Matters.~☺♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me modernism is the unwillingness to color "within the lines." Modernists are provocative: they deliberately violate boundaries to get your attention, to get you to notice things that might otherwise escape your notice. It's the sheer audacity of modernism that I admire.
Before modernism, art was exactly what it was, a heartfelt poem professing love, or a painting of a tree or a house. Modernism is where they dived headfirst into writing and wrote about the gritty underside or realistic part of love, or painted in bold and expressive abstracts.
2006-10-28 14:07:54 · answer #2 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
2006-10-28 14:03:06 · answer #3 · answered by ஐAldaஐ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To what language? I´m a translator, I can help.
2006-10-28 14:04:38 · answer #4 · answered by Luna L. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋