tags: #publish links: [[Philosophy]], [[Art]] created: 2020-09-16 Wed related: [[Postmodernism]] --- # Modernism A movement of [[Philosophy]] and Art. Relating to modern industrial life and urbanisation, and war. Search for new forms of expression. *Individual creative expression should conform to the realities of technology.* Rejects: - Tradition - [[Realism]] - Certainty of [[Enlightenment]] thinking - Sometimes religious belief Embraces: - Individualism, radicalism. - Experimentation. Self-conscious about artistic and social traditions, hence experimentation with form, techniques that drew attention to the processes and materials. - Absurdity. (see [[Ubu Roi]], possible precursor) - Symbolism. - Formalism? - Primitivism? Concepts: - Dissonance, atonality - Startlingness and alienation - Unintelligible things Results: - Abstract art - Stream-of-consciousness stuff - Montage cinema - [[Twelve-tone Music]] ## Ironies A movement relating to rejection of tradition became a tradition of its own :grin: - institutionalised. ## Vs [[Postmodernism]] [[Modernism vs Postmodernism]]