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Modernity:Terrifying or Sublime?
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“Modernity”
• The term is from 1600s
• Era began in 1400s with printing press– We are still in it and may never escape it…
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“Modernity”
• The term is from 1600s
• Era began in 1400s with printing press– We are still in it and may never escape it…
• It is the belief that:
• We are in a new era, separate from all of previous history.
• We are different, more free than those who came before us.
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Modernity• We have to power to control and improve:
– The natural world– The social world– Our minds– Our bodies
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Modernity• We have to power to control and improve:
– The natural world– The social world– Our minds– Our bodies
• And in some cases the “power” to control and improve each other…
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Modernity• Politics (society as a system)
– Capitalism/Socialism– Democracy/Fascism– Individualism/Collectivism
• Truth– Rationality/Progress– Science replacing Religion
• Technology– Urbanization, slums– Mass literacy, mass media– Industrialization
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Modernity vs. Modernism
• Modernity: the historical, cultural, economic and political conditions of 1600s-1950.
• Modernism: the literary and aesthetic representations, visions and responses and to those historical conditions (1850-1950).
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Modernism
• Big Ideas…– Artist breaking with the past (Manet)
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Moderism
• Big Ideas…– Artist breaking with the past (Manet)– Artist as Visionary Hero (Pollock)
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Modernism
• Big Ideas…– Artist breaking with the past (Manet)– Artist as Visionary Hero (Pollock)– Universal Language (Kandinsky)
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Modernism
• Big Ideas…– Artist breaking with the past (Manet)– Artist as Visionary Hero (Pollock)– Universal Language (Kandinsky)– Merging of Art and Life (Futurism, Dada)
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Modernism
• Big Ideas…– Artist breaking with the past (Manet)– Artist as Visionary Hero (Pollock)– Universal Language (Kandinsky)– Merging of Art and Life (Futurism, Dada)– Art Informing Politics (Tatlin)…
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Vladimir Tatlin
Monument for the Third International (1919)
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Vladimir Tatlin
Monument for the Third International (1919)
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Vladimir Tatlin
Monument for the Third International (1919)
• Was to be Headquarters of the Comintern (Communist International)– Overthrow international
bourgeoisie (capitalist countries).
• After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
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Vladimir TatlinMonument for the Third International (1919)
• Industrial materials: iron, glass and steel.• In materials, shape, and function, it was
envisioned as a towering symbol of modernity.
• It would have dwarfed the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The tower's main form was a twin helix which spiraled up to 400 m in height.
• Visitors would be transported around with the aid of various mechanical devices.
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Vladimir TatlinMonument for the Third International (1919)• The Base: a cube venue for lectures,
conferences and legislative meetings, and this would complete a rotation in the span of one year.
• The Middle: a pyramid housing executive activities and completing a rotation once a month.
• The Top: a cylinder to house an information centre, issuing news bulletins and manifestos via telegraph, radio and loudspeaker, and would complete a rotation once a day.
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Metropolis (1926) by Fritz Lang
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Metropolis (1926) by Fritz Lang
• The Great City
• In awe of modernity… terrified by modernity
• Have we mastered technology or has it mastered us?
• Dystopia or Utopia… nothing in between
• Absolute class divisions and tensions– Workers (hands) vs. Intellectuals (brain)
• The film was inspirational for Hitler
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Metropolis (1926) by Fritz Lang
• It is an Expressionist film—dramatically exaggerated and distorted to evoke an emotional and psychological effect.