5 point text

The first point that is being made is that of expresionism. He claims that the one thing that expressionism needed is the notion of 'self' from the artist, basicly he needs to be expressing something about himself in his art. he believes that this notion comes from marginalised and neglected places, in new art this incantation was however made under urban circumstances. He says that the expressive devices had to match the real experience and the modern condition pressed down on the avent-garde as the century went on.

The second point explains that cubism, expressionism and futurism were large miles stones for european avant-gardes reception of the modern. he claims that the modern was not yet 'total' and so it could be measured against what was yet to come. Modern was still similar to traditional values.

The third point that he makes is about modernisation, modernity and modernism.
Modernisation is the processes of scientific and technological adnvances. It refers to the growing impact of the machine and chemical industries.
Modernity refers to the social and culteral condition of these changes. He claims that modernity was a form of experience, adapting to the changes and the change in character that it caused in people.

The fourth point was the pesimism that came about with the increase in population and control of human life and machinary. Human beings were becoming imprisioned in what the sociologist Max Weber saw as the 'iron cage' of modernity.

The final point that was made is that there is an impulse to decode and change the modern but there is another argument that art must transform itself.

Harvard Refrence:

• McGuigan, J (1999). Modernity and postmodern culture. Milton Keynes: Open University Press
• Mckenzie, B & Holme, M (2002). Expressionism. London: Heinemann Library
• Piotrowski, P (2009). In the shadow of Yalta: art and the avent-garde in Eastern Europe 1945 - 1989. London: Reaktion Books
• Turner, J (2000). From Expressionism to Postmodernism: styles and movements in 20th-century art. London: Macmillan
• Wilk, C (2006). Modernism 1914-1939: designing a new world. London: V&A Publications