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Modernism


00:02:54 1 Early history
00:03:03 1.1 Origins
00:07:53 1.2 The beginnings in the late nineteenth century
00:14:30 2 Main period
00:14:39 2.1 Early 20th century to 1930
00:30:20 2.2 Modernism continues: 1930–1945
00:43:50 3 After World War II (mainly the visual and performing arts)
00:44:02 3.1 Introduction
00:48:25 3.2 Theatre of the Absurd
00:50:41 3.3 Pollock and abstract influences
00:52:30 3.4 International figures from British art
00:56:37 3.5 In the 1960s after abstract expressionism
00:58:18 3.6 Pop art
01:00:05 3.7 Minimalism
01:02:46 3.7.1 Postminimalism
01:03:38 3.7.2 Collage, assemblage, installations
01:04:46 3.7.3 Neo-Dada
01:06:33 3.7.4 Performance and happenings
01:09:23 3.7.5 Intermedia, multi-media
01:10:33 3.7.6 Fluxus
01:12:16 3.8 Late period
01:13:34 4 Modernism in Africa and Asia
01:16:55 5 Differences between modernism and postmodernism
01:18:33 6 Criticism and hostility to modernism
01:23:39 7 See also



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- Socrates



SUMMARY
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Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by reactions of horror to World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and sciences, were becoming ill-fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was the touchstone of the movement's approach towards what it saw as the now obsolete culture of the past. In this spirit, its innovations, like the stream-of-consciousness novel, atonal (or pantonal) and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and abstract art, all had precursors in the 19th century.
A notable characteristic of modernism is self-consciousness and irony concerning literary and social traditions, which often led to experiments with form, along with the use of techniques that drew attention to the processes and materials used in creating a painting, poem, building, etc. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism and makes use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody.Some commentators define modernism as a mode of thinking—one or more philosophically defined characteristics, like self-consciousness or self-reference, that run across all the novelties in the arts and the disciplines. More common, especially in the West, are those who see it as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology. From this perspective, modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence, from commerce to philosophy, with the goal of finding that which was 'holding back' progress, and replacing it with new ways of reaching the same end. Others focus on modernism as an aesthetic introspection. This facilitates consideration of specific reactions to the use of technology in the First World War, and anti-technological and nihilistic aspects of the works of diverse thinkers and artists spanning the period from Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) to Samuel Beckett (1906–1989).While some scholars see modernism continuing into the twenty first century, others see it evolving into late modernism or high modernism. Postmodernism is a departure from modernism and refutes its basic assumptions.