"Make it New," disillusionment, psycological focus, WWI, one universal truth
- "make it new"- they didn't want anything like WWI to happen again so they wanted to change the way they were doing things.
- WWII- end to modernist era
- believed artists were responsible for disaster of world- manipulative
- Techniques of era:
- unreliable narrators
- multiple narrators
- minor characters as 1st person narrators (Great Gatsby)
- nonlinear narrative
- stream of consciousness
- Modernist interested in multiple points of view
- Picasso- painting has different angles on face layered together
- don't want to force one point of view on people
Post Modernism
- Old generation grows up and WWII creates new angry young generation.
- TV- can see different people in different places with different points of view
- PoMo= Modernism - Universal Truth + Irony
- All truth is local- no universal truth
- blending of high and low culture
- self-reference- like characters are real, can move from media to media
- medium referring to itself
- only understand references if you're familiar with it.
- The Simulacrum
- eventually we can mimic something until mimicking seems more real and replaces original.
Surrealism
- Arts movement between WWI and II
- Uses unexpected juxtapositions in ways intended to activate subconscious associations- highlight hidden truths
- dream-like, playful, sometimes eerie or bizarre
- influenced by Freud and Jung
- psychological world
Nicely done. Pass.
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