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What is and When was MODERNITY ?

Lecture 1:. What is and When was MODERNITY ?. Andrea Peach. From Here to Modernity CCS Mini-programme 1 . The Titanic - Photomontage, Stanley Tigerman, 1978, USA. Chicago Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1950-51, Mies van der Rohe. Modernity and Modernism.

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What is and When was MODERNITY ?

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  1. Lecture 1: What is and When wasMODERNITY ? Andrea Peach

  2. From Here to ModernityCCS Mini-programme 1 The Titanic - Photomontage, Stanley Tigerman, 1978, USA Chicago Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1950-51, Mies van der Rohe

  3. Modernity and Modernism

  4. Modernity and Modernism surrealism expressionism futurism cubism serialism dadaism etc...

  5. Modernism Dominant ideology throughout western industrialised world in art, design and architecture for most of the twentieth century

  6. Modernity The social conditions and experiences that are the effects of modernisation. Technological, economic and political processes associated with the industrial revolution and its aftermath.

  7. Forth Bridge under construction c 1888

  8. Glasgow c 1880s

  9. JWM Turner, The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up, 1838

  10. JWM Turner, Steamer in a Snowstorm, 1842

  11. Modernity was a term first used by 19th century French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire to denote the experience of living in the new modern world

  12. Baudelaire talked about the ephemeral, the fugitive and contingent aspects of living in the new modern world. Put simply: life seemed to have speeded up

  13. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions are swept awayAll that is solid melts into airKarl Marx 1848

  14. Modernity: speed and change Modernism: gave form and symbolic expression to the consciousness of modernity

  15. Eadweard Muybridge, 1882 Giacomo Balla Girl Running on a Balcony, 1912 Etienne-Jules Marey, 1878

  16. Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Paris, 1861-3

  17. The Boulevard Montmartre 1870/79 Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897

  18. The law of progress is immortal, just as progress itself is infinite Else Thalemann, Eiffel Tower 1930

  19. André Kertész, Shadows of the Eiffel Tower 1929

  20. Robert Delaunay Eiffel Tower 1910

  21. Robert Delaunay Sun, Tower, Airplane, 1913

  22. Fernand Léger The City, 1919 A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth century artist Fernand Léger 1914

  23. Georges Braque Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece 1911

  24. Clement Greenbergart critic (1909-1994) Modern art can be related to the changing forms of modern life, even when it does not depict modernity

  25. Paul Cézanne, Montagne Sainte Victoire, c 1887

  26. The whole arrangement of my pictures is expressive … Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at a painter’s disposal for the expression of his feelings. Henri Matisse

  27. Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red, 1908

  28. Clement Greenberg Essay: Modernist Painting 1960 Formalism: based on approach which emphasises line, colour, tone, and mass at the expense of the significance of the subject matter Based on theories of Clive Bell and Roger Fry

  29. Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we’re living in … It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds its own technique.Jackson Pollock 1950

  30. Jackson Pollock, Number 1A 1948, 1948

  31. Andrea Gursky, Los Angeles , 1998

  32. Reading: Frameworks for Modern Art - Jason Gaiger (ed) Chapter 1 ‘Art of the Twentieth Century’ Modernity and Modernism - Paul Wood (pp. 16-27) www.studioit.org.uk

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