A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
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