Richard Miles lecture notes Modernity & Modernism

Modernity & Modernism

• Terms- ‘modern’, ‘modernity’

• Modernity – Industrialisation, Urbanisation – the City

• Modern artists’ response to the city

• Psychology and subjective experience

• Modern art and photography

• Defining ‘modernism’ in art

• Modernism in design

Architecture 1977

• 15 july 1972 Modernism dies according to charles jencks - The demolotion of pruit.
• Paris 1900
• Trottoir Roullant - eletric walkway 'Urbanisation'
• Sites of Modernity

Process of rationality and reason , Enlightment = period in late 18th century when scientfic/ philsoshical thinking made leaps and bounds.

Haussmanisation

• paris 1850s = a new paris
• old paris architecure of narrow streets and srun down housing is ripped out hassuman city architect recreates paris
• Narrow streets easier for police dangerous, place.

One of the slides talked about ...

Max Nordau Degeration 1892
an anti modernist wrote about his worries on the modern world
 
he predicted that,

“the end of the 20thC. . .  will probably see a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen square yards of newspapers daily,
to be constantly called to the telephone, to be thinking simultaneously of the five continents of the world, to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine  and . . . know how to find [their] ease in the midst of a city inhabited by millions’

Modernism

• the experience of the individual in the modern world
• come cloe to the understanding
• modern art and the experience of modernity 

Modernism in design

• Anti-historcrism
• truth to materials
• form follows funtion
• technology
• internationalism

Summary

• Revolution = new opportunity for art to progress
• Constructivists desire to make art useful
• Aim that art should help 'construct' new society
• Use of new techniques and abstract aesthetics
• by end of 1920s artistic freedom curtailed
• 1934 'socialist realism' only.