The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia

ISBN-13: 9781032109176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 150 str.

USA) Fleming Bruce (US Naval Academy

Opis

Contending that the Modernist project of the long 20^th century is approaching exhaustion, with its remaining insights approaching triviality, this book explores the Modernist links between the arts and academic pursuits of the West – and their relationship with street protests – and considers what might follow this Modernist Era.

Spis treści

Part I: What Hath Modernism Wrought?  1. Beyond Romanticism  2. Movements  3. Why Modernism?  4. Academia  5. Museums  Part II: Abstraction  6. Explanation  7. Science Envy  8. Offended? You Win!  9. Life After Modernism  Part III: The Spectrum of Disciplines  10. Personal and Impersonal  11. Fundamental Rules  12. Verifiability  Part IV: Words in the World  13. Form Follows Function  14. The Cloud  15. Circumstances  16. What Is the Self?