Movement When Where Artist Key Characteristics Modernist Topic Pictorialism Julia Margaret Cameron Louis Daguerre The use or creation of pictures or visual images a movement or technique in photography emphasizing artificial often romanticized Pictorial qualities Used as representation of people and historical events Machine aesthetic Impressionism 1870 - 1890 France Alfred Sisley A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s‚ Characterized
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Views of Modernity Presented in The Metamorphosis and The Convergence of the Twain Kiz F The University of Southern Queensland ENL3000 VIEWS OF MODERNITY PRESENTED IN THE METAMORPHOSIS AND THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN The Modernist period‚ a period which most literary critics agree began in the late nineteenth century‚ was characterized by a total break from past forms and a constant search for new ideas. It was through this search that surrealism began to emerge‚ and many authors began
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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart‚ and all they can do is stare blankly.” F. Scott Fitzgerald was a defining author of Modernism. From 1914-1946 Modernism was a big part of the times cultural trends and experimenting with everything from styles to writings to science. Flappers‚ parties‚ gangsters‚ love‚ and tragedy all influenced Fitzgerald greatly because he lived it. Most of Fitzgerald’s books and stories are about love and tragedy.
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obsession with materialism. This issue and the corruption that accompanied it was commonly discussed in the literature of the time. In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the characters of Daisy and Tom Buchanan as well as their connections to Modernism in order to criticize the hedonistic nature of the traditional upper class during the Jazz Age. Daisy’s wealth allows her to be careless and reckless‚ which is seen through her selfish treatment of her
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Modernism takes place near the early 20th century and is the celebration of inner strength. It is a world where god is not in control and man’s own destiny is defined by itself. Social and political views are strong and truth relies in science and the views of the people. I believe The Great Gatsby falls into modernism for many different reasons. The book displays many instances of social platforms‚ materialism‚ 20th century struggles‚ increases in wealth and city life as well as taking
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of Modernism in 1920s differentiated two different standards of upper classes. While the “Old money” inherited wealth from their predecessors‚ the “New money” prospered through hard works and the perception of the American Dream. Many American authors are significant for distinguishing the deformity of society that Modernism has created‚ which in many ways still exists in the present day. One of the most important literary works that clearly depicts the American society based on the Modernism movement
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Modernists see the ugly in the world‚ unlike realists who see beauty in the ugly. Fitzgerald uses the characters in The Great Gatsby to represent modernism as a rejection of traditional themes. Most of the characters in the novel follow traditions that get rejected because they seemed to be empty. In The Great Gatsby‚ that tradition is the American Dream. Gatsby himself is an example of one of those characters. Nick‚ however‚ is the one who sees the emptiness in those traditions. Fitzgerald
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loss of purpose‚ shattering the masses’ morality code only to make them lost and afraid. Many of the people who came back from the war lost all sense of themselves due to their lost ideology. From this shattering‚ the literary movement known as modernism attempts to make sense of the shattered pieces of society’s lost ideology. Some of the figureheads that surmounted this patching up were: Ernest Hemingway‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and William Faulkner. Each of the authors provided an original insight
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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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In Griselda Pollock’s article Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity‚ she elaborates on her beliefs that modern art history selectively celebrates normalized gendered stereotypes of females and female artists and their works1. She makes four arguments to support her beliefs based on references to works of art and literary works. The arguments are structured in a way that allows the readers to understand them through long discussions with added evidence from referenced works or personal experience
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