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Homework. Staple rubric to paper and turn in Turn in to turnitin.com Read chapters 1-2 and answer questions in study guide. Modernism. The guiding principles of this movement were: -a break from old traditions , -continual advancement

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  1. Homework • Staple rubric to paper and turn in • Turn in to turnitin.com • Read chapters 1-2 and answer questions in study guide

  2. Modernism The guiding principles of this movement were: -a break from old traditions, -continual advancement -and the fact that art should be valued for being art

  3. MODERNISM • Period from early 1900s to roughly 1965 • Sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. • Experimentation and individualism became virtues

  4. Modernism was set in motion through a series of cultural shocks • Both World Wars shell shocked most of the world • People worried about the future of the world

  5. Main tenets • Concern with the inner self and consciousness • Unlike the Romantics, the Modernist cares little for Nature • Modernist intelligentsia sees decay and a growing alienation of the individual. • Modern society is seen as impersonal, capitalist, and antagonistic to the artistic impulse.

  6. Tenets • In modernism, God became useless. • life had lost its mystery. Man, not God, could rule the world. • Irving Howe, a literary critic, once talked about modernism as an "unyielding rage against the existing order". (Van Dusen, 1998)

  7. Modernism is a rejection of tradition and a hostile attitude toward the past. • Modernism preoccupied with the meaning and the purpose of existence. • They are in search of new values and in something new. • Modernism first took place in the Jazz age and/or the roaring twenties

  8. Art • Modernism was the beginning of the distinction between “high” art and “low” art. • Pablo Picasso, best known for Cubism • Salvador Dali, a surrealist painter, • Marcel Duchamp, • Pointillist George Seurat, • Jackson Pollock • Willem de Kooning

  9. Wassily Kandinsky Russian Painter 1866-1944

  10. “Kandinsky removed all traces of the physical world from his paintings, to create a nonobjective art that bears no resemblance to the natural world. In suggesting that he "painted . . . subconsciously in a state of strong inner tension," Kandinsky explicitly expressed a distinguishing quality of modern Western art--the artist's private inner experience of the world. Such a theme serves as a working definition of modernism itself.+ • 2000 Steven Kreis- The History Guide

  11. The Imagist Poets • Sought to boil language down to its absolute essence. They wanted poetry to concentrate entirely upon “the thing itself.” • Replaced romantic, pastoral poetry of the previous generation • New subject matters…burst poetry open

  12. Modernist Poets • T.S. Elliot The Waste land • Loss of traditional structure • Resembles prose • Concern with the individual, not nature

  13. Literature • The Lost Generation • Lost Generation struggled to find some meaning in the world in the wake of chaos. • This was chievedby turning the mind’s eye inward and attempting to record the workings of consciousness.

  14. Experimentation with genre and form • Stream-of-consciousness • Writers looking inward, not outward • Psyhchology also contributed to the question of what constituted truth and reality

  15. Writers • Gertrude Stein, • Ernest Hemingway • F. Scott Fitzgerald, • Joyce

  16. James Joyce

  17. Virginia Woolf

  18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN_lpbEOzbM

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