Introduction to Modernism

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Introduction to Modernism
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Modernism

• Modernism is central to Twentieth Century art.
• It has been called The tradition of the new.
• It is an overly self-conscious style.
• It prizes technical brilliance.
• It seeks to exploit new perspectives.

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Modernism

• It seeks fresh ways of of grasping human
  experience.
• It challenges conventional modes of expression.
• It emphasizes ways of knowing and how we know
  what we know.

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Modernism

• Developments and science, psychology and
  technology led people to believe that the would
  soon unlock all of the secrets to the universe.

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Modernism

• Century of isms
• Expressionism
• Dadaism
• Surrealism
• Futurism
• These isms explore different ways of expressing
  the REALITY of the world.

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Modernism

• Sigmund Freud
• Dora
• 1359

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Modernism

• Sigmund Freud
• Conscious mind
• What a person is aware of at any particular
  moment
• Perceptions
• Memories
• Thoughts
• Fantasies
• Feelings

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Modernism

• Sigmund Freud
• Unconscious
• What a person is not easily aware of
• Drives
• Instincts
• Unbearable things we put there, such as memories
  and emotions due to trauma

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Psychoanalysis

• a highly influential method of treating mental
  disorders, shaped by psychoanalytic theory, which
  emphasizes unconscious mental processes

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Modernism

• James Joyce
• The Dead
• 1582

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Modernism

• Flannery OConnor
• A Good Man is Hard to Find
• 1883

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Modernism