Aksharam - The Name and Nature of Modernism
Aksharam - The Name and Nature of Modernism
Aksharam - The Name and Nature of Modernism
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Modernism abandoned the aim of five centuries of European effort Modernism was that much a
radical change. It altogether discarded the ideas continued by the previous five centuries.
The separation between the modern age and its immediate past is of a higher degree than the break or
separation between any other movement and its past
The separation between the modern age and the age of Jane Austen is wider than the one between the
Antiquity and the Dark Ages
The modern poetry is a greater novelty.
There exists the Great Divide between modernism and its past.
There is no unanimity about the nature of modernism. Critics and thinkers have different opinions
regarding the nature of modernism
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Modernism proposed, “We are not the derivatives of the past but our surrounding conditions”
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Modern art turns from realism and humanist representation towards style, technique and spatial
form in pursuit of deeper penetration of life.
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Modernism is a movement towards sophistication and mannerism, towards introversion and technical
display and internal self-scepticism.
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Modernism is the point at which the idea of the radical arts and innovating arts reaches the stage of
formal crisis.
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Modernism is less a style than a search for style in a highly individualistic sense.
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There are different opinions regarding the inaugural year of modernism. Some say it’s 1900.
There are others who point to the years 1910 or 1910 or 1924.
There is an argument when modernism began
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The inaugural year of modernism, the year of its ending, its causes, its character are topics of debate.
There is no general agreement about such things.
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The argument about modernism adds to the abundance of the versions of post-modernism
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Modernism is a historical evolution coupled with a notion of crisis and a notion of culmination.
For Anglo- American, that culmination falls in the first part of the twentieth century, within which
are two peaks, years preceding the world war and the years succeeding it
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The literary world of Germany was sickened and surfeited by the term.
Germanic modernism has its origins in the 1880s.
Declined in the early part of the twentieth century.
Anglo-American modernism and Germanic modernism are perceived as different from each other.
But there are certain commonalities.
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The idea of modernism is bound up with consciousness of disorder, despair and anarchy
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Modernism was a celebration of the technological age. At the same time, it condemned technology.
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advised to read the original one and all the available materials for better clarity and more points.
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