Modernists aimed to reflect reality in ways more ‘real’ than conventional literature. The modernism movement was prompted by a widespread disillusionment in society that resulted from contextual events. This allowed an altered view of the world as fractured and chaotic‚ especially due to paralysis and alienation in modern society. This newly perceived reality is reflected through techniques of fragmentation in modernist works such as James Joyce’s short story “Araby” and T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love
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umbrella term "modernism." First‚ what is modernism and why did it apply to the 1920s (as opposed to earlier decades)? What ideologies or beliefs had changed by the 1920s that qualified this decade as "modern" for America? Second‚ to expand on those changes‚ what new issues/events/movements did Americans face in the 1920s? Discuss at least three examples and explain how each reflected modernism. Last‚ in what ways did Americans respond to modernism? Why did some embrace modernism and others reject
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with great controversy. Primitivism is an obvious and quite prominent influence upon the Rite of Spring but what were these features and how do they relate to the ambiguous‚ diverse genre of Modernism? To realise‚ the internal cogs that turn this devise must first of all be analysed and recognised. Modernism is regarded as a phenomenon of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century that is supposedly pioneered in a sense by the likes of Claude Debussy. The roots of the Russian Avant Garde scene
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Romanticism and Modernism as Strange Bedfellows: A Fresh Look of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive‚ But to be young was very Heaven! O time In which the meagre‚ stale‚ forbidding ways Of custom‚ law and statute‚ took at once The attraction of a Country in Romance! The Prelude—William Wordsworth (Come in under the shadow of this rock)‚ And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening
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How has Eliot used both conventional and Modernist poetic techniques to represent his Modernist concerns? The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Preludes expresses Eliot’s Modernist concerns about the lack of morals and values in modern society through the use of personas within the urban landscape and the urban society. Modern man’s lifestyle of repetition of trivial tasks and the lack of meaningful things in life is represented and emphasised through the use of alliteration‚ metaphor‚ fragmentation
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Anish Kapoor’s development in sculpture is defined by his illusionary void‚ within the Double Mirror installation. Through the use of his non traditional approach‚ he has challenged the social concern with identity. The success of the Double Mirror installation has been contributed to by historical developments from Surrealism and Futurism ideals. It has also been influence by the art practices of Brancusi and Giacometti Surrealism initiates the ideals of releasing the unconscious in illusionary
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gender‚ sexuality‚ and homoeroticism in the Great Gatsby‚ and this is what Frances Kerr ’s critical analysis investigates and studies. To sum it all up‚ the slightly homophobic critical analysis of France Kerr‚ called Feeling "Half Feminine": Modernism and the Politics of Emotion in the Great Gatsby‚ examines how the feminine personality and complex sexuality of the Great Gatsby ’s author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ has created a sense of a feminine quality in the two most important male character of
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Photography dates all the way back to the 1400s. Today photography is a huge part of life; not only in the United States‚ but all over the world. Photographs keep personal memories alive as well as informing people all over the world of world events. Photographs also provide identification such as a person’s work badge‚ school ID‚ driver’s license‚ and ever a pass port. They provide pictures of Earth and space and can also be used for numerous medical purposes. So what is photography and where did
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Alfred Stieglitz was an influential photographer who spent his life fighting for the recognition of photography as a valid art form. He was a pioneering photographer‚ editor and gallery owner who played pivotal role in defining and shaping modernism in the United States. (Barr 23). He took pictures in a time when photography was considered as only a scientific curiosity and not an art. As the controversy over the art value of photography became widespread‚ Stieglitz began to fight for the recognition
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of Pictorialism. I also want to briefly examine the way these female photographers portray their female subjects. Chapter 1 - Pictorialism Pictorialism was in vogue from around 1885 and declined after 1914 with the emergence of Modernism. Pictorialists strove to make photographs as much like paintings as possible. Portraits were often linked to
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