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Modernism started as a movement around late 19th and 20th centuries. It rejected the conventional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organisation and everyday life as they felt it was incompatible with the new economical, social and political conditions that was emerging at that period of time. Many distinctive styles can be defined…

On Ezra Pound’s quote on modernism, he claims that "the modern age wants a literature that reflects an image of itself: "accelerated" and mass produced ("a mould in plaster/Made with no loss of time) as well as superficial. " This means that today’s society wants a literature that resembles itself, fast paced and shallow. Society…

As some critics contended. postmodernism represents a interruption with the modernist impression that architecture should be technologically rational. austere and functional. discourse the ways in which one postmodern designer has developed schemes which overcome these inclinations. Juxtaposition is seen between the features of early twentieth century modern architecture and the artistic enterprise of postmodernism that…

Virginia Woolf is regarded as one of the most significant authors of the modernist period. She experimented with different techniques, forms and structures and it is this experimentation and introduction of a new style that defines her as a modernist writer. Modernism was a cultural movement over the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries…

Art Spiegelman’s Maus II is a book that tells more than the story of one family’s struggle to live thought the Holocaust. It gives us a look into the psyche of a survivor’s child and how the Holocaust affected him and many other generations of people who were never there at all. Maus II gives…

Design is extremely crucial in human civilisation, it is an establishment of a plan or convention when constructing an object, system or measurable human interaction. Diverse kinds of objects may be designed, from a thing as small as a nail to an enormous, stunning architecture, even methods or processes of designing. Rand (1947) once mentioned…

Still, for all the complaints lodged against the original of the now-standard museum shop trinket, Degas, unlike his fellow painters, the French Impressionists, always enjoyed steady support. One such defender, Nina de Villard, said of “The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer,” “The work that is misunderstood today will one day be in a museum looked upon with respect…

Modernism is an inclusive name applied to the many forms of rebellion against the accepted and the tra- ditional. A modernist likes to be thought a rebel—sometimes he is and will starve for his principles, sometimes he is not, but only a self-advertiser. Modernism has had the good effect of arousing the anger of the…