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    dichotomy. Louis Menand asks was modernism très moderne‚ or was it très ancien? Modernism sometimes looks like a heroic effort to rescue literature from anachronistic conventions and to fit it to the needs of the modern world; but it can also look like an attempt to resurrect for literature an even more severely anachronistic privileged status‚ and nearly every aspect of our understanding of modernist writing is infected by this indeterminacy. This description of modernism can be seen as a description

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    War is a catalyst for social change. This is very clear among the movement of Modernism‚ which was amid between the two bloodiest wars WW1 and WW2. This then resulted in the modernistic motto“ Make It New”. Modernism was a movement that caused a drastic change in all aspects of the arts. Literature had new‚ intriguing qualities that broke away from the long developed traditions. It also incorporated new concepts such as devaluing the importance of certain things in society‚ Symbolism and the conception

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    What was 1920’s art like? By: Marisol Menendez and Libby Davis Art Influences • Art in the 1920’s was mainly influenced by two movements: Dada and Surrealism. Dada Art • Dada was an anti-art movement . Anti Art painters rejected in some way the conventional artistic standards. • It was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. It rejected reason and logic‚ prizing nonsense‚ irrationality and intuition. Many Dada artist scattered across Europe after Great War ended. Dada’s

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    Georgia O’Keeffe‚ the “Mother of American Modernism”‚ was born on November 15‚ 1887‚ in Sun Prairie‚ Wisconsin. She was born to her father‚ Francis Calixtus O’Keeffe and her mother‚ Ida Toto. Her amazing portraits of beautiful flowers and southern landscape have led her to become one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Her artwork has been recognized by many‚ and she has received lots of recognition for her beautiful paintings. O’Keeffe made a lasting impact in American art by

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    communication‚ lack of emphasis on emotion. | Post Modern | Alvin Toffler‚ Daniel Bell‚ Jean- Francios Lyotard‚ Michel Foucault Jacque Derrida | After modernism‚ less structure. More service oriented‚ | Strengths – greater emphasis on professionalism‚ emphasis on innovation‚ technologyWeakness – thought by some to be little more than anti- modernism | Neo Modern | | | | Open Systems | | | | Reflexive Organization | | | | | | | | | | | | Answer the following questions

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    Paul Rand‚ more than any other American designer‚ is credited with bringing the modernist design movement to America. Over a career that spanned more than six decades‚ he produced a body of work that included editorial and poster design‚ illustration‚ and most famously‚ logo designs for corporations like ABC‚ IBM‚ UPS and Westinghouse. Rand was born in Brooklyn‚ New York and attended various New York art schools before beginning his design career as an editorial designer for magazines like Apparel

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    Yeats as a modern poet

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    Answer:- William Butler Yeats‚ one of the modern poets‚ influences his contemporaries as well as successors‚ such as T.S. Eliot‚ Ezra Pound and W.B. Auden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love‚ Irish Nationalism and mysticism‚ but modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. As a typical modern poet he regrets for post-war modern world which is now in a disorder and chaotic situation

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    explanation whereas methodological approach is the experimenting of data or “reality”. Modernist Perspective Objectivism is the ontological framework behind modernism whereby unadulterated inscription of reality is regardless of an individual knowledge of its existence. Whereas‚ positivism is the epistemological framework behind modernism whereby the truth is rationally tested and examined against the objective reality which provides a precise and objective foundation for knowledge (Uba 2002).

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    Twentieth Century Modernism The twentieth century can be distinguished by the saying‚ "Beyond the pale". This metaphoric meaning represents modernists standing outside the conformist restrictions of law‚ behavior‚ and social class- in a sense‚ beyond the pale. Modernists wanted to expand their dimensions and represent life in a different way. They were very skeptical of the Victorian age because they did not believe it was possible to have unity in all the world which was what Victorian literature

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    Organisational Theory Assignmant Jeremine Chan Yao Ming (S3368100) Introduction In this assignment‚ I will be using meta-theoretical assumptions to compare on the two perspectives of Modernist and Post Modernist‚ further explaining on Power‚ Control and Conflict. After which‚ giving a short introduction of Apple and link how the two perspectives examine Apple’s organisational network and influence‚ and finally coming to a conclusion. Theoretical Framework The difference between a Modernist

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