#modernism

The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#modernism #art

The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and conceptual vision of urban construction, and perhaps also of social construction. ↗

— Sverker Sörlin

#modernism #sweden #art

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago! ↗

— Taylor Mali

#postmodernism #speech #communication

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier. ↗

— Ellen Lupton

#modernism #new-media #swiss-style #design

Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced. For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#feminism #life #maleness #modernity #philosophy

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs. ↗

— David Guterson

#because #dead #human #human needs #man needs

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#academic #elite #feminist #men #originating

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? ↗

— John C. Ransom

#escape #generally #had #how #modernism

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ↗

— Elizabeth Wilson

#conflict #difference #fragments #inequality #never

Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#postmodernism #humor