VCC101H5 Lecture : Lecture 5
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Class notes: four images and get four terms and talk about them, and short multiple choice section, final test on the june 17th, assignments need to be double-spaced, only submit work online no hardcopies. Innovation, fashion, progress: opposed to idea of the classical, tradition, and antiquity, according to marx, it"s a effect of capital accumulation, and ultimately leading to a category of aesthetics, emphasizes on rationality, quest for truth, stages of modernity. The industrial revolution and political revolutions (france, russia) wed modernity to the transformation for history and the modern comes to increasingly describe social experiences. The absolute sovereignty of modernism is ushered in around 1910 by a rupture with the classical and traditional vocabulary The reign is consolidated after the world war 1 . In art a move towards abstraction: a response to modernity, expression of urbanisation, industrializations, and mechanization, optimistic and anxious www. notesolution. com.