ENGL 65FM Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immanuel Kant, Arctic Circle, Frame Story
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Modernity: is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent (things that are seemingly random); it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. (charles baudelaire) Written in context to-the painter of modern life; what modernity is and how it has transformed; the nature of art and culture; In the essay he chooses to focus as the painter of modern life not as an established artist but rather talks about an artist who will remain anonymous (gee) He did illustrations for newspapers and worked in one of the first mass culture media-tremendous emphasis on new form of media-writing and print technologies. Talks about that things that in the past were disregarded-half of modernity. Modernity in the importance of response to (cid:522)it(cid:523) Timeless and eternal value-one of the notions of art; Describes edgar allan poe as the major writer of modernity- became renowned.
