FINA10032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Production, Individualism, Immanuel Kant
23 Oct 2018
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Week (cid:575) - modernity: (cid:627)all that is solid melts into air(cid:628) Modernism: defines an attitude as much as a period as much as a fashion as a function. One must be modern or be left behind. Invention discovering things that have been unseen before. Creative exploration be on the side of change. Colonial expansion of european trade and geo-political power. Institutional promotion of empirical (cid:472)experimental(cid:473) science and knowledge. Scoi-economic and political rise of merchant and middle classes. They defined themselves and their artwork as modern & modernists, unlike other periods of art/society, they acknowledged that they were modernists. It was neither simply a reaction against nor a development from earlier styles. Rather, a number of individual styles radiated out from the centre of neoclassicism. Joseph wright of derby, experiment on a bird in the air pump, 1(cid:439)(cid:438)(cid:440): Middle of painting there is a large sealed jar contained a white bird, suffocating from a lack of oxygen (cid:472)an invisible element(cid:473)
