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Great Watershed - Coggle Diagram
Great Watershed
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Modernism
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COMMON FEATURES
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Emphasis on subjectivity, on how perception takes place, rather than on what is perceived.
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The intensity of the isolated ‘moment’ or ‘image’ to provide a true insight into the nature of things.
The substitution of the mythical for a realistic method and the parallelism between the contemporary and antiquity.
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A rejection of the distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ or popular culture,
both in the choice of materials used to produce art and in the methods
of displaying, distributing and consuming art.
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A new concept of time
The idea of ‘time’ was questioned also by the American associationist philosopher William James (1842-1910)
and the French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941).
William James: our mind records every single
experience as a continuous flow of ‘the already’
into ‘the not yet’
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