Summarise the text Harrison, C and Wood, P. (eds.) (1997) 'Art In Theory: 1900-90', Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 125-9.
Write no more than a few paragraphs but try to include what you see as the five key points that the authors are trying to communicate about Modernity and various Modernists subsequent responses to the condition of Modernity.
Include a bibliographic Harvard reference for the text at the end.
Write no more than a few paragraphs but try to include what you see as the five key points that the authors are trying to communicate about Modernity and various Modernists subsequent responses to the condition of Modernity.
Include a bibliographic Harvard reference for the text at the end.
This short text looks briefly at different art movements that begin at the start of the twentieth century. The first key point that the authors make is that this "new art" is all about expression. Unlike traditional art which focused on escapism, modern art portrayed real experiences of everyday life, not necessarily how the experience looked but how the experience felt.
After the war there was great pressure to be the leading country in the art world.
The authors then go on to say how this modern art looked at the modern world in two different ways. One, that the change was great and machines were making life easier and then on the other hand that life was losing depth and people were becoming imprisoned in their routines. Both of these are effects of modernisation.
There was yet another response/concern which looked at the cause of why the modern world was the way it was.
The last point in the text says that overall there is two different types of art created out of modernism. The first is trying to change the world, "decode the world" through art. While the other is to fit art around modern life and make it relative to the world we live in today.
Harrison, C and Wood, P. (eds.) (1997) 'Art In Theory: 1900-90', Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 125-9.
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