ARTH 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Synesthesia, Camille Pissarro, Cubism
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Jenkins - versions of history academic writing centre www. carleton. ca/wts (make appointment) modernism, modernity and the avant garde (key terms) socio-economic. World events technology railway photography colonialism film wars. Russian revolution (1917) stock market crash and evolution industrialization city = now country = past notion of progress* sense of alienation by this progress harnessing for capitalism. Modernization range of technological economic and political process associated with now idea of progress. Modernity social conditions and modes of experience seen as effects of these processes often leads to alienation, isolation, confusion and chaos. The city rises vibrant containing horse loose brushwork. Simmel, metropolis and modern life autonomy self government? alienation. Flaneur bourgeois walker of the city observing/people watcher also a participator experience of city key role: metaphor for portrayal of the city investigator/critic/detective consumption. Prostitute female equivalent of flaneur walks streets participating in commodity culture as well (different way) Classic and academic painting (birth of venus) conservative tight brushwork nude vs naked.