Tuesday 27 April 2010

Modernism/Postmodernism

Modernism in short relate to the event of present times, a thought, character and practice. Modernism is also a form of deliberate departure from tradition, the use of ideas, innovative forms of expression, that distinguish many styles in the arts and literature of the 20th century.

People such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf just to name a few, were initiator of concept which transformed the way things where been done in their fields, they sought new solutions within new forms and used as-yet-untried approaches to tonality.

The history and root of modernism can be traced back to artist such as Édouard Manet and Pablo Picasso, who in the 1860s began to broke away from inherited notions of perspective, modelling, and subject matter and introduce new thought process and changed the perspective view in art.

Steve Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1973, the camera weighed 8 pounds, recorded black and white images to a cassette tape, it had a resolution of 0.01 megapixel (10,000 pixels), and it took 23 seconds to capture its first image in December 1975. Seven Sason invention challenged the form on which images where been capture, his invention revolusionies the world of photgrpahy and birth a new erra.

Unlike Postmodernism, which is a term that applied to a wide-ranging set of developments, it generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism.

More often, though, it is applied to a cultural condition prevailing in the advanced capitalist societies since the 1960s, characterized by a superabundance of disconnected images and styles—most noticeably in television, advertising, commercial design, and pop video.

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More often, though, it is applied to a cultural condition prevailing in the advanced capitalist societies since the 1960s, characterized by a superabundance of disconnected images and styles—most noticeably in television, advertising, commercial design, and pop video.


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