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What is and When wasMODERNITY ?
Lecture 1:
Andrea Peach
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Chicago Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1950-51, Mies van der Rohe
From Here to ModernityCCS Mini-programme 1
The Titanic - Photomontage, StanleyTigerman, 1978, USA
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Modernity and Modernism
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Modernity and Modernism
cubism
expressionism
dadaism
futurism
surrealism
serialism
etc...
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Modernism
Dominant ideology throughout
western industrialised world in art,design and architecture for most of
the twentieth century
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Modernity
The social conditions and experiencesthat are the effects ofmodernisation.
Technological, economic and political
processes associated with the industrial
revolution and its aftermath.
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Forth Bridge under
construction c 1888
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Glasgow c 1880s
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JWM Turner, The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berthto be Broken Up, 1838
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JWM Turner, Steamer in a Snowstorm, 1842
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Modernity was a term
first used by 19thcentury French poetand critic Charles
Baudelaire to denotethe experience of livingin the new modern
world
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Baudelaire talkedabout the ephemeral,the fugitive and
contingent aspects ofliving in the newmodern world.
Put simply:life seemed to have speeded up
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All fixed, fast-frozen relations,
with their train of ancient andvenerable prejudices andopinions are swept away
All that is solid melts into air
Karl Marx 1848
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Modernity:speed and change
Modernism:
gave form and symbolic expression to theconsciousness of modernity
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Giacomo Balla
Girl Running on a Balcony, 1912
Eadweard Muybridge, 1882
Etienne-Jules Marey, 1878
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Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Paris, 1861-3
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Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897
The Boulevard Montmartre 1870/79
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The law of progress is immortal, just as progressitself is infinite
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Andr Kertsz, Shadows of the Eiffel Tower 1929
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Robert Delaunay
Eiffel Tower 1910
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Robert Delaunay
Sun, Tower, Airplane, 1913
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Fernand LgerThe City, 1919
A modern man registers a hundred times more sensoryimpressions than an eighteenth century artistFernand Lger 1914
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Georges Braque
Clarinet and Bottle ofRum on a Mantelpiece
1911
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Clement Greenbergart critic (1909-1994)
Modern art can be related to thechanging forms of modern life,
even when it does not depictmodernity
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Paul C zanne, Montagne Sainte Victoire, c 1887
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The whole arrangement of my
pictures is expressive Composition is the art of arranging
in a decorative manner the various
elements at a painters disposal for
the expression of his feelings.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red, 1908
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Formalism: based on approach which
emphasises line, colour, tone, and mass atthe expense of the significance of thesubject matter
Based on theories ofClive Bell and Roger Fry
Clement Greenberg
Essay: Modernist Painting 1960
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Modern art to me is nothing more than the
expression of contemporary aims of the age
that were living in It seems to me that
the modern painter cannot express this
age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio,
in the old forms of the Renaissance or of
any other past culture.
Each age finds its own technique.
Jackson Pollock 1950
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Jackson Pollock, Number 1A 1948, 1948
Andrea Gursky, Los Angeles , 1998
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Andrea Gursky, Los Angeles , 1998
Reading:
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Reading:
Frameworks for Modern Art - Jason Gaiger (ed)Chapter 1 Art of the Twentieth Century
Modernity and Modernism - Paul Wood (pp. 16-27)
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