Introducing Modernism
A Graphic Guide
Published on 14. March 2015
176 pages
978-1-84831-964-6 (ISBN)
Description
Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett. But what really defines modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? Is Modernism over now? Chris Rodriguez and Chris Garratt's brilliant graphic guide is a brilliant exploration of the last century's most thrilling artistic work - and what it's really all about.
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Chris Garratt is an illustrator and cartoonist whose Biff comic series ran for twenty years in the Guardian.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Realizing Modernism
- What is Modernism?
- Media High Profile
- Keeping up with Fashion
- Cultural Foundations of Modernism
- What is the Difference between Modernism and Modernity?
- Technologies of Time
- Standard Time
- Key Inventions of Modernity
- The New Industrial Art
- So . How does Modernism Fit into All This?
- An Experimentalist Attitude
- Simultaneous Futurism
- Architecture: Functionalist Modernism
- Giedion's Bible
- Sticking Things Together
- Tatlin's Tower
- How do we Recognize a Modernist Work?
- The End of the Past
- Reading Picasso .
- . and Reading Similarities
- The Pleasure of the Text?
- How do the Arts Relate to Each Other?
- Multi-Artform Performances
- A Spirit of Modernist Cooperation
- Avant-garde Film-making
- Towards Atonality and Abstraction
- Is There a Modernist Theory in Relation to Practice?
- Structural Linguistics
- The Relation of Modernism to Philosophy
- Science and Sociology
- What About Marx, Nietzsche and .?
- Cross-Currents of Influences
- Literary Cross-overs
- What is the Relation of Modernism to Primitivism?
- Is Primitivism Ethnocentric?
- Expressionist Primitivism
- Primitivism in Literature
- What is the Relation of Modernism to Psychoanalysis?
- The Primitivism of Sigmund Freud
- Freud's Influence
- How Did Freud "Filter Through"?
- The Century's Greatest Listener .
- Psychoanalysis and Surrealism
- The Birth of Surrealism by Manifesto
- "The Impossible Dream"
- The "Dream Factory"
- What is the Role of the City in Modernism?
- The Crowd
- The Human River .
- . and the Flâneur
- The City as Narrative
- Architects' Utopia
- Why Are Modernists So Often "Exiles"?
- Modernist Nomads
- Exile Into Language
- What is the Role of Élites and Avant-gardes in Modernism?
- Is Avant-gardism "Pure" Modernism?
- The Cohesion of Avant-gardes
- Picasso's Alliances
- What Politics Did the Modernists Espouse?
- Reactionary Modernism?
- Modernists on the Ultra-Right
- The Political Errors of Modernism
- Examples of Progressive Modernists
- No One's Perfect .
- How Does Modernism Relate to Mass Culture?
- Against Mass Culture
- Understanding Mass Culture
- Cultural Industries
- The Impact of the First World War
- Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- "And What For?"
- What Would You Choose?
- Crimes Against Humanity
- Modernism Emigrates to America
- Is America the Natural Home of Modernism?
- The Great Crash and Recovery Programme
- Modernism: the Un-American Activity
- Entartete Kunst
- Soviet Censorship
- An Unholy Alliance
- The Elite Defence of Modernism
- Kitsch, High Culture and Abstract Expressionism
- Hijacking Abstract Expressionism
- Duchamp Descending a Staircase .
- Pop Art or Neo-Dadaism?
- The "End" of Modernism?
- What is the Relation of Cinema to Modernism?
- Against the Modernist Grain
- European Art Cinema
- Avant-garde Cinema: Surrealism
- Expressionism in Films
- Avant-garde Soviet Films
- Reconsidering Hollywood
- The New Wave
- Breathless .
- New Technologies = Postmodernism?
- Has Modernism "Ended"?
- Postmodern MoMA
- Out of Babylon
- Bibliography
- Index
