Modernism Quote by Robert Hewison Download Open image “Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.” — Robert Hewison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modernism Optimism Post modernism Taken
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality. — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is,… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday.… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone. — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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