COP Lecture; Modernism and Postmodernism

Throughout the lecture, I gathered some notes of points that I found interesting and will research further into;

-The industrial revolution
-modernity is categorised by: industrialisation, mass manufacture, concentrated populations, development of trade and capitalism, colonisation, role of science and technology, urbanisation, secularisation, mass media, division of labour, mass consumption
-the impact of the industrial revolution, development of scientific thought etc
-“...modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent...” (Baudelaire, 1859)
-cubism: early 20th century, beginnings of modernism pairing; Picasso
-futurism: lead by a manifesto; umberto boccioni
-pre-modern commercial art: the use of images to promote commercial sales, the start of graphic design?? Jules cheret 1892
-the Swiss style (high” modernist)
-the Bauhaus (Walter Gropius, 1919, an example of modernist architecture)
-Modern art: moving towards abstraction, new subject matter, expression
-Modern design: functionality, rationality, universally
-The end of modernism; eventually, many thinkers, artists, makers became cynical to the universalising claims of modernism. Thought it didn’t offer opportunities
-postmodernity: 1970; globalisation, the digital age, industrialisation became commercialisation
-conceptual art: Duchamp- the fountain, 1917, art is an idea!
-postmodern graphic design: April greiman, wolfgang weingart
-postmodern architecture: Frank Gehry
-cultural diversity