Art and Technology

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Art and Technology

• Modern A break with the past, forward looking.
  Rebellion against past. Emphasis on evaluation
  rather than criticism. An historical period
  associated with technological change and
  industrialization.
• Post-modern Revival of traditional elements.
  Emphasis on criticism rather than evaluation.
  Cultural condition of present world.

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Modern (ism)

• Modern Of or relating to recent times or the
  present modern history.
• Characteristic or expressive of recent times or
  the present contemporary or up-to-date a modern
  lifestyle a modern way of thinking.
• Of or relating to a recently developed or
  advanced style, technique, or technology modern
  art modern medicine.
• Avant-garde experimental. (from Answers.com)
• Modernism Modernism is a cultural movement which
  rebelled against Victorian mores. As we have
  discussed in class, Victorian culture emphasized
  nationalism and cultural absolutism. Victorians
  placed humans over and outside of nature. They
  believed in a single way of looking at the world,
  and in absolute and clear-cut dichotomies between
  right and wrong, good and bad, and hero and
  villain. Further, they saw the world as being
  governed by God's will, and that each person and
  thing in this world had a specific use. Finally,
  they saw the world as neatly divided between
  "civilized" and "savage" peoples. According to
  Victorians, the "civilized" were those from
  industrialized nations, cash-based economies,
  Protestant Christian traditions, and patriarchal
  societies the "savage" were those from agrarian
  or hunter-gatherer tribes, barter-based
  economies, "pagan" or "totemistic" traditions,
  and matriarchal (or at least "unmanly"
  societies). (from Catherine Lavendar, The Honors
  College of The College of Staten Island of The
  City University of New York.)

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Post-modern (ism)

• Post-modern A belief that there are no absolute
  social/religious/cultural truths. Relative truths
  exist, but they are only valid for a given group
  at a given time. Other traditions, religions,
  eras, races, genders, cultures, and groups
  believe/believed in other, often conflicting,
  truths. All of these alternate "truths" are
  valid, at least to the group that follows them.
• Post-modernism The Post-Modern Age is a time of
  incessant choosing. It's an era when no orthodoxy
  can be adopted without self-consciousness and
  irony, because all traditions seem to have some
  validity. This is partly a consequence of what is
  called the information explosion, the advent of
  organized knowledge, world communication and
  cybernetics. It is not only the rich who become
  collectors, eclectic travelers in time with a
  superabundance of choice, but almost every urban
  dweller. Pluralism, the "ism" of our time, is
  both the great problem and the great opportunity.
  (from "What is Post-Modernism?" by Charles
  Jencks)

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Liberty Leading the People, Delcroix, 1830,
Romantics

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The Gleaners, Millet, 1857, Realism

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Old Locomotive, Feininger, 1908, Futurist

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Passage, Duchamp, Dadaism, 1912

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Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,
1913, Futurist

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Light Iris, OKeefe, 1924, Modernism
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Johns,Map, 1961, Abstract Expressionism
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Campbell Soup, Warhol, 1968, Pop-Art

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