works and lives in New York City‚ New York. McElheny is also known for working with such mediums as wood‚ mirror‚ glass‚ paint‚ still videos and videos with sound. With all the works Josiah has produced‚ his “Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism” is one to enjoy. Josiah McElheny produced a series of works known as “Paintings”‚ although not as well-known as some of his other works‚ they are interesting. A two-dimensional image with a three-dimensional feel. Specifically‚ the Crystalline
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First of all‚ it is important to be aware of the differences between postmodernism and modernism. While modernism always tries to find a new way to express something‚ postmodernism has no such concern. Modernism itself is representational‚ normative‚ original and Universalist. It has a linear progress. Postmodernism has no concern about being original. Moreover postmodernism claims that there is not possible way to create something brand new anymore. So‚ contrary to modernism’s originality‚ postmodernism
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Questia. 8 Oct. 2008 . Bloom‚ Harold‚ ed. Holden Caulfield. New York: Chelsea House‚ 1990. Questia. 8 Oct. 2008 . Carpenter‚ Frederic I. American Literature and the Dream. New York: Philosophical Library‚ 1955. Questia. 8 Oct. 2008 . Childs‚ Peter. Modernism. London: Routledge‚ 2000. Questia. 8 Oct. 2008 . Harding‚ Walter. A Thoreau Handbook. New York: New York University Press‚ 1959. Questia. 8 Oct. 2008 . Pattanaik‚ Dipti R. ""The Holy Refusal": A Vedantic Interpretation of J.D. Salinger ’s Silence
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Modernism kills humanity………. You who think the meaning of life is in the click of the keys on your laptop‚ the beep of your pager in the firm grasp of business’s opponents handshake. You who thinks life means clinching contracts or looking the best in your friends party. will you think the same for thirty‚ forty years? Wheeling for the breath in the death bed. which thing will give us comfort?.designer clothes stashed away at your back of your closet or the quiet satisfaction at the life well
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lifestyle she had to live. She felt as if she could not be herself. Through her work‚ Sexton introduced the style of modernism in her poetry by being among the first authors to write about the cultural trends and changes in a society in her writing. In “Self in 1958”‚ by Anne Sexton‚ the story of a housewife living the conformed life of being a perfect wife is told‚ which brings out the modernism characteristics of symbolism‚ dehumanization and the corruption of society through the texts and the truth behind
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attempts to chart the transition in architecture from nineteenth century Romanticism and Neoclassicism to High Modernism. Mies van der Rohe redefined architectural boundaries and emphasised the beauty of simple forms‚ the importance of functionality and the versatility of new materials such as glass‚ steel and marble. An analysis of the work of Philip Johnson reveals the development from High Modernism to Postmodernism‚ where playful and ironic decoration and humanist theories were reintroduced into what had
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William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin‚ Ireland. His father was a lawyer and happened to be a well know artist of the time. Yeats was educated in both England‚ specifically London‚ and in Dublin‚ Ireland. Although the majority of his summers were spent in the west of Ireland in the family’s summerhouse. Yeats was involved in societies that attempted to write and compose Irish literature. His first piece of literature appeared in 1887‚ but in his earlier period his dramatic production outweighed
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that are now associated with modernist poetry‚ TS Eliot’s position on the established art forms and religious hierarchy that many writers of his generation rejected‚ and how this influenced Eliot’s composition of Prufrock‚ is highly debatable. In Modernism: The New Critical Idiom Peter Childs of the University of Gloucestershire writes that these stylistic conventions were: ‘moves to break from the iambic pentameter as the basic unit of verse‚ to introduce Vers Libre‚ symbolism‚ and other new forms
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centuries. How does one lead to another and what values conflict and produce the change. The eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were characterized by four major artistic movements. They were Neoclassicism‚ Romanticism‚ Realism‚ and Modernism. More often than not‚ these movements represented clear break with old and transition to new social‚ political‚ and cultural ideologies. Through music‚ literature‚ and art champions of these movements reflected on most pressing concerns of their
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ideals becoming available‚ new methods and possibilities were also opened up. THE TWO WAYS TO BE MODERN The interwar period saw architects draw their inspiration from either one of ‘the two ways of being modern’ (RMIT‚ 2008) – modernism or art deco. Modernism being solely Europe’s influence and art deco coming from both Europe and North America. The change in orientation from our ‘mother country’ England to Europe and North America allowed changes to occur as we were allowing ourselves to
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