Question: Discuss and evaluate the importance of some of the innovations in style and structure found in modernist text.
Answer: After the catastrophic aftermath of World War I, many artists believed that the traditional, social, religious and political order of Western culture had disintegrated. As a result of this, doubts about the function of realist art, which was the dominant literary mode of representation of the nineteenth century, was called into question. Modernist writers felt that Realism could not adequately describe how significantly modern life differed from the past and consequently sought stylistic and structural innovations that could better illustrate new realities, rather than an objective, transparent and universal reality characterized by the artistic traditions of the nineteenth century....(short extract)
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- Subject: Art History
- Course: Art History
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 63%
- Words: 2905
- Date submitted: March 06, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 916
