Defining Modernism I havent changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did itIt means integrity it means honesty it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia it means simplicity it means clarity Thats what modernism means to me ID: 620584
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Modernism & Postmodernism
DefiningSlide2
Modernism
“I haven’t changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it…It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That’s what modernism means to me.”
- Paul RandSlide3
The WHO, WHEN, and WHERE of Modernism
1910s – 1960s
Northern America and Europe
Poets
Ezra Pound
e. e.
cummings
Robert Frost
Authors
William Faulkner
Flannery O’ConnorSlide4
The WHY of Modernism
Began shortly after the end of WWI
Say goodbye to the optimism from before the war
Replaced by disillusionment and uncertainty of life
Did not trust the ideas and values of the world, since they had led to the war
What is going to become of humanity?Slide5
The WHAT of Modernism
Sought to capture the essence of modern life through both form AND content
Instead of seeing progress, modernists saw a decline in civilization
Ex: Computers have made our students lazy
Just more cold machinery and capitalism
Led to feeling alone and alienated by othersSlide6
The HOW of Modernism
Showed fragmentation of the world by constructing their work out of fragments of traditional literature
Abandoned form and meter in
for
free verse
Themes were implied instead of stated
Forced the reader to draw their own
conclusions
First person
stream of consciousness
Continuous flow of uninterrupted events
No concrete beginning, middle, and endSlide7
Imagism: A subgenre of Modernism
A poetic movement that rebelled against the sentimentality of traditional poetry
Demanded hard, clear expression, concrete images, and everyday language
Instead of the flourished ideas found in Victorian or Romantic literatureSlide8
In case you’re confused…Slide9
Postmodernism
“Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.”
- Miguel
SyjucoSlide10
The WHO, WHEN, and WHERE of Postmodernism
1940s-??
Northern America and Europe
Famous Authors
Vladimir Nabokov
Adrienne Rich
Leslie Marmon
SilkoSlide11
The WHAT of Postmodernism
Addressed the impersonal and commercial nature of today’s world
Wanted to capture the essence of contemporary life
Influenced by the growth of information technology
Not quite as cynical as the modernist movementSlide12
More about Postmodernism
Stopped believing there was a dividing line between high and low class art
Allowed for pop art and cartoons to reestablish
Shifted idea of the “carefully constructed art” to the
process
of creating artSlide13
STOP!
The main idea about Postmodernism is that it’s still growing and changing today. The focus is on the art itself, and the fact that it’s evolving.
There’s no easy definition for Postmodernism, because the movement is still occurring.