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I feel like one reason we’re “stuck with modernism” is that it’s an umbrella term that points to many distinct forms which are reacting against some tradition.
by sings 7y ago
I feel like one reason we’re “stuck with modernism” is that it’s an umbrella term that points to many distinct forms which are reacting against some tradition. In this sense, it’s a pretty useless term, as distinct periods will always be reacting against what has come before, otherwise we wouldn’t note them as such.
- yk 7y agoThe thing is, art historians have stopped demarcating ages. (A bit like anthropologists stopped making lists of the best African tribes, even though that would be great fodder for buzzfeed.)