Modernism Research Papers Samples For Students

The word “modern” at first appeared long time ago – in 1585 and its meaning in Late Latin was “just now”. In English language the term modern had almost a similar meaning – “existing now”. There are two terms that relate to modern: modernism and modernity. Though they seem to be the same while derived from one term, it is though necessary to point out a definition of each of them and tell about their differences. Modernity, also known as modernization, can be defined as a process of social and economic development, involving the rising of industry, urbanization, technology and bureaucratic ...

Joseph Conrad (his real name was Jozef Korzeniowski) is a classic of English literature of the twentieth century. He was born in the Russian Empire into a family of Polish patriots, who took part in anti-government protests. In 1874 he fled to Marseilles to become a cabin boy on a French merchant ship and three years later, while sailing in the Pacific Ocean, began to learn English. Over time, he became captain in the British passenger fleet. The marine experience gave Conrad the material for his literary works. After retiring, he devoted himself wholly to literature and in the mid-nineties began to publish ...

Georgia O'Keeffe was an America artist born on November 15 1887 and managed to live to be 98. Throughout her life, the society perceived her way of life as one that is totally immoral. She lived a very contentious life that many segregated her. She inadvertently found herself painting the episodes in her life which was depicted in he flowers and many others of her works. Finally, in 1916, O'Keeffe first came into the attention of the New York art community and was able to maintain her independence and resist the artistic trends. Additionally, her works depicted the real distinctive ...

The modern world is dominated by technological influences that have seen a change in the lifestyle and behavior of man. A comparison is always made on how the day-to-day life of man is being influenced by the technological developments. This has different impacts on people depending on how they handle the changes. Observing the behavior displayed by man, one can only be amazed at the power of how technology has turned man from being a naturally social creature to a machine like individual. Robert frost is one of the modern poets who has observed the changing trend in man even with the ...

The literature written during the 1920s brought to life America's fixation of rising to the top within social ranks. The themes and ideals presented in novels and poetry during the 1920s were a depiction of the fantasy that was the American dream. The fantasy, often associated with leaving rural life and joining the ranks of the modern city, was one that most people can still relate to today. Literature in the 1920s highlighted this and offered it as an antidote to rural life. In the twentieth century some American modernist’s decided to blend the concept of pastoral tradition with ...

VASCONCELOS LIBRARY BY ALBERTO KALACH

Vasconcelos Library
The architect of Vasconcelos Library is Alberto Kalach, who was born in Mexico and established the firm "Taller de Arquitectura X" 1. Kalach is considered one of the most versatile among the architects in Mexico and has worked on a wide range of projects that cover residential areas, civic structures, and contemporary buildings. Jose Vasconcelos Library is considered an award-winning project by him and is the largest public library in Latin America. Around the middle of the 1960’, the architectural profession saw two visions, one was the vision of the modernity, and the other was to achieve ...

The architecture of the early 20th century relied heavily on the introduction of new materials which led to the existence of new styles that rejected the notion of social hierarchy and religious affiliation. During this period, the buildings created within the early phase of modernization became so diverse and eccentric yet it was due to this nature that allowed architects to apply all the scientific knowledge in creating functional structures rather than buildings based on the designer's viewpoint. What separates the style of the 20th century from its predecessors was their openness in terms of exploring new materials especially ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designers, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant today. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes derived from 1960s’ ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designer, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of the art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant up to date. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes ...

AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER 1865

American culture is specific because Americans as a nation did not exist before 1776, but the art is being created almost the same after leaving the first free people in the New World. American culture has bypassed the Middle Ages, Baroque and Renaissance, but is nevertheless very much emphasized in relation to world literature.
Period of civil war that has engulfed the American nation has brought with it many of the reforms except political. People have been shaken by war and suffering like finally a reality. No embellishment, no fantasy. The period between 1865 and 1914 in American literature indicates a ...

The revolution of Mexican Architecture led to the emergence of many architects who sought to bring about modernism in Mexico. However, most of the architects focused on developing modern aspects or rather styles with little or no consideration of the traditional designs. Luis Barragan sought to link traditional architectural designs with his rather modern outlook of his works. He used his art to express the poetic richness of Mexico’s past. He also used his works to address the aesthetic trends of the modern world. The two aspects that inspired Luis were the physical beauty of nature as well ...

Introduction

African American literature was born at the end of the 18th century, during the period when the African American people were still going through slavery. Slaves were seen to be less than human and not able to study sciences or arts. White Philosophers during this time viewed slaves as inferior including those that wrote The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Nellie McKay and Henry Louis Gates Jr.) as well as Immanuel Kant and David Hume. The philosophers noted that the African American people, nicknamed as ‘Negroes’ by then were inferior to the white people, and they did not ...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was the author’s first published works. At the time, it was considered unusual as modernism was new. Though the piece seems to centre around the theme of love, the nature of its speaker, and perhaps of modernism itself, leads the reader to an end where the love is never fulfilled. Eliot uses a variety of poetic devices such as symbolism, metaphor and imagery. Furthermore, he uses a concoction of poetic forms within what is, essentially, a dramatic monologue.
"The Love Song of J. ...

Abstract

This paper begins with an introduction that provides a general overview as well as the setting of the play A Doll’s House. It also sets out to provide an analysis of how Ibsen portrays the rights of women through the female characters in his most famous plays, A Doll’s House and Ghosts. The paper begins by evaluating the rights of woman as portrayed through the experiences of the female characters in the Doll’s House. In particular, the primary focus of this part is Nora, who is a central character in the play. Accordingly, the play proceeds ...

In the contemporary society, manga or the Japanese visual novels became an integral part of propagating Japanese culture to broad audiences. The 1990s sparked an immense distribution of Japanese animation throughout the world. Even so, the manga published by the Japanese companies such as Shueisha and Kodansha became a high-valued commodity for all the ‘otaku’ fans in Japan and abroad. With the advent of the internet in the 2000s, these mangas became widely distributed amongst websites and even downloadable through scanlations made by the fans. One of the best mangas known throughout the world was the Rurouni Kenshin or ...

Introduction

While the political avant-garde of modernist movement had a celebration of dissidence and proceeded to advocate a revolution of art and contemporary life, postmodern art delightfully exist in a world that shows the pluralism of atheistic manner and way of play. Art hardly ever functions on a critical level: the political prospect becomes separate from contemporary art functions. Postmodern art turns to represent not only the consumer society that we live but also a privileged commodity.
In the 1960s, "committed" art had turned to be the pillar if artistic postmodernism. Gender issues, class, and race become central particularly following ...

As suggested by the Berman, the twentieth century might be supposed as "the third and last phase" in the improvement of the condition we consider as "modernity." Though he allows that this creating world society of modernism accomplishes stupendous triumph in art and thought, there is a price to be yielded. Culture and identity, for so long perpetual from the backing to the grave, are no more assurances in the period of urban evolution, movement, industrialization, and aggregate war. As the present day open extends, it develops into a large number of segments, talking incommensurable private dialect; the idea ...

Georgia O’Keeffe remains one of the most fascinating artists of the twentieth century because of her bold art. She grew up in Wisconsin and studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and learned the techniques of traditional realist painting under Luis Mora. William Merritt Chase and Kenyon Cox (About Georgia O’Keeffe 2016). Her distinct flowers, theatrical cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the blunt desert sky are original contributions to American Modernism. O'Keeffe played an essential role in the development of American modernism and helped flourish its relationship to avante garde movements (Georgia O’ ...

Le Corbusier was an architect famously revered for his modern building designs. Despite the fact that he lived in an era wherein horse-drawn carriages, gaslights, and restrictive society norms, he already envisioned a future in which architecture and art can break separately from its traditionalist origins. Le Corbusier was the second son of Georges-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris a Swiss watch engraver with his wife, Marie-Charlotte-Amelie Perret whose father was also a craftsman. They married in 1883 and after three years, Marie gave birth to their eldest son named Albert in February 6 1886 (Flint xvii; Weber 22). Le Corbusier was born ...

Scholars and acolytes of Gertrude Stein prefer to refer to her as "The Mother of Us All" as the attribution of her last dramaturgical opera inspired by the figure of the American feminist Susan B. Anthony. This definition would suggest a bond of deferential respect and intimate cultural affiliation by certain groups of writers and critics positioned on the edge of the traditional culture. All these scholars were gathered around Gertrude Stein as around a true pioneer of feminism and gender studies. The linguistic revolution that took place in hers works was astonishing and impressed all of them. She was a giant, a ...

Introduction

The process of modernization does not mean that societies evolve in terms of commercial activity and people start to follow latest fashion as far as their dressing is concerned, but the epidemical development is rather psychological and mental in nature. One can infer that modernization really occurs when communities demonstrate detailed and engraved social, ethical, and economic growth that Arabian society is not doing because they are majorly operate as sellers of crude oil, and therefore, they do not have to work very hard in order to earn their bread and butter. They have become profoundly habitual to remain ...

Introduction:

I have selected a few works from the baroque period which show this epoch in all its glory. These range from sculpture to art portraits to start off with.
The first one is Bernini’s David, a sculpture of incredible beauty with various aesthetic aspects that are original and very direct. The second is The Conversion of St John by Caravaggio, probably one of the finest examples of painting in the chiaroscuro theme and which reveals incredible and intrinsic beauty. Finally I chose Rembrandt’s ‘David and Bathsheba’, probably another of the finest representations of Renaissance art which demonstrates the ...

Introduction

This study investigates the book arguments of Smick and Friedman one considered the world economy is curved and other said the world economy is flat that place that the global economy is becoming curve or flatter from the viewpoint of economic characteristics and spatial economics. So as to do this, they both think about the diversity of empirical evidence in their books and ideas, several of which seems to be prima facie quite inconsistent. According to Smick, it is demonstrated that logically the world economy is developing even more curved. Whereas in accordance of Friedman that the world economy ...

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who used his grandfather’s surname and reinvented himself as Le Corbusier, was born on October 6, 1887 (“Le Corbusier: Biography,” 2013). He was considered as one of the pioneers of the modernist movement in architecture. He was also a designer, writer, urbanist, and painter. Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland and he changed his citizenship into French in 1930 (“Le Corbusier: Biography,” 2013). His architecture career reached fifty years and his buildings and designs were all over Europe, India, and the United States (Sharp, 2002). He initiated the study of modern high design and he was a ...

A platform erected in Stuttgart Germany and completed in the year 2006 was because of the expression of the Mercedes Benz Company, displaying its art trends in the cars that they produce. Acting as an institution of technological research, the Illinois institute of technology built in the state of Illinois in the United States displays art works that go beyond the context of each of the structures. Aspiring architecture scholars within and outside the regions of Illinois and Germany are motivated by the building strategies of the buildings and the art features associated with the building.
French composers ...