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Title: 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
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