Sunday, 1 March 2009

AA318 aka 20th Century Art is all about WORDS

Seems an essential part of AA318 is the words you use, modern art needs its own language to describe itself. This blog will track my search to understand that vocabulary.

Book I Intro...

MODERNISM ; POST MODERNISM ; AVANT-GARDE

are all , for example

MULTI-VALENT ; PROBLEMATIC ; CHALLENGING ; DIFFICULT

While...MODERNITY is easy - the modern condition aka the Internet, the plane, Iraq, Obama, recession, quantitative easing, feminism, racism, social networks, child poverty, Afghanistan, Iran, China, Brown,Blaire, Middle East, Alzheimer's, diet, fitness, health, plastic surgery, Hollywood, New York, London, Frankfurt, Utterhacken,Lagos, spam, global warming,energy saving, football, TED,........

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