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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
-Arthur Erickson
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and europe. and all early modernism is actually from out of europe, when you think of cubism is african, is looking at africa, matisse is looking at the arabesque, oceania. europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.
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The moment in the account of adam and eve in the book of genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. that seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “oh my god! i'm telling a story! oh, that can't be the case, because i'm a clever person. i'm a literary person! what am i going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.
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We want freedom. we want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. we want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. this idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
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After modernism, things changed. indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the fall. remember, the first thing adam and eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. they were embarrassed. embarrassment was the first consequence of the fall. and embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "am i telling a story? oh my god, this is terrible. i must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.
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Freedom! that was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. freedom! not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.
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