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Modernism Tests Cultural Drift - by Robin Hanson

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Modernism, in the fine arts, [is] a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression … felt a growing alienation incompatible with Victorian morality, optimism, and convention.

Modernism, in the fine arts, [is] a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression … felt a growing alienation incompatible with Victorian morality, optimism, and convention. … impulse is fueled in various literatures by industrialization and urbanization and by the search for an authentic response to a much-changed world. … postwar Modernist literature reflected a sense of disillusionment and fragmentation. … In the visual arts the roots of Modernism are often traced back to … Manet, who … broke with tradition when he made no attempt to mimic the real world ……

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