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    America during this time could be considered an era of conflicting ideals. As a result of this change of times, literature changed it’s perspective; effectively, the transition from modernist ideals to postmodernist ideals. Much like modernism, however, post-modernism offered to reject ideals presented by both prior literary trends and the popular ideas of their time; yet for postmodernism, the rejection mostly dealt with homogeneity (a conformed universal standard defined by advancements in American

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    Modernism In Modern Art

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    Modernism, in the arts refers to a period of time from the late 19th century to mid 20th century where artists challenged traditional art by experimenting with new forms of expression. Current materials, approaches and techniques were utilised in order to create artworks that better reflected modern society as an act of rebellion towards old-fashioned styles. One artist that influenced the art world with her unique and dynamic technique was Grace Cossington-Smith, born  on the 20th April 1892, in Neutral

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    Modernist movement is a change in art and architecture during late 19’s and early 20’s. Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, and activities of daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialised. The first characteristic associated with modernism is nihilism, the rejection of all religious and moral principles as the only means of

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    Modernism and Postmodernism To begin with, to determine the meaning of postmodernism is possible only through the relationship with modernism. Modernism in modern science is understood as a kind of cultural consciousness, which is implemented in the artistic practice of symbolism, expressionism and acmeism. In the socio-historical context, it means the period of modernism in the development of culture from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, that is, from Impressionism to a new novel and

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    Christopher Crouch wrote “Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture” in 1999, in order to acquaint his audience to the concepts of Modernism and the Post-Modern evolution, through a concise and captivating argument, which effectively ties to the advancement of contemporary visual culture, and to the socio-political conditions in which it is composed of. Crouch investigates the diverse ways in which visual culture emulates its conceptual and physical provenance in elite, mass, and cultural practices

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    In this paper modernist poetry is analyzed. Modernism as a cultural period is considered to be a multinational movement which meant re-evaluation of the assumptions and aesthetic values of the past. It is important to mention what is modernist poetry. This is considered to be a poetry mainly written by poets of North America and Europe between 1890 and 1950. It emerged as a result of technical revolution, inventions and World War I. Poets of this period made emphasis on personal view of the world

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    Although Nietzsche isn't responsible for creating modernism, his philosophies were representative of the concerns and uncertainly of the modernist artists. Nietzsche and the modernists shared a dark outlook on society, one that he had called in his works "sick" and weak due to the constraints put upon them by the Christian church, and traditional values that had gone unquestioned for too long. To truly realize oneself, you must break free, denounce this imposed morality and search deep inside to

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    The Great Unstoppable Steinbeck The Modernism Era was a time in history with destruction by loss, social evils, personal loss, and fragmentation during World War 2. Many authors and poets experienced these feelings during this time. During the Modernism Era, there were many young authors that shared a common goal of writing like: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.E Cummings and many more. Like many other authors during this era, John Steinbeck was an author who uses his knowledge, and

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    not an absolute given, such as Christianity, scientific reason (Hanna, 38) and the European superiority that was used to justify colonialism (Israel in Bradshaw & Dettmar 124). This lead to the movement that has been referred to by scholars as modernism. Thus modernists made the attempt to invent new styles of literature that focused on characters, subjective personal experience (Hanna 77). This was done to demonstrate “the realization that modern life is not natural, but is historically constructed

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    Following the rapid technological and urban growth of the early twentieth century as well as the disillusionment caused by World War I, Modernism arose in an attempt to better explain the new, ever-changing world. Modernist literature revolves around several principles, including stylistic minimalism, fragmentation, perspectivism, and symbolism. Ernest Hemingway, a significant American Modernist, employs all of these principles in his collection of short stories In Our Time. Throughout many of these

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