Essays on Modernism

The fall of the Empire of Japan in 1947 and the American occupation that occurred after Japan’s surrender in World War 2 had resulted in the creative youths of Japan denying the modernization that it brought in traditional Japan. “Koshimaki Osen Bokyaku-hen” was a print…

The distinction between tradition and modernity was explored as early as 1934 by Ananda Coomaraswamy in his The Transformation of Nature in Art and in 1942 by Rene Guenon in his The Crisis of the Modern World. But these books did not receive much attention…

Critical regionalism is a method in architecture in which the global style of Modern Architecture is replaced with a design that focuses on the place. It is a reaction to the context and these buildings are site specific. The end product is a response to…

The following research paper will critically engage with the architectural movement known as Modernism. This will be done by engaging in its formal, spatial, tectonic, philosophical and the broad contextual characteristics, to establish a theoretical framework. This framework will then be applied in evaluating four…

Realism and Modernism Realism started as a movement that turns away from Romanticism and shows interest in science and truth. The movement strived to portray an accurate representation of reality. Another rebellion brought upon the Modernist phenomenon, a rebellion against Victorian nationalism. Instead of strict…

Modernism in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Modernism is the period spanning the commencement of the 20th century to about 1949 (after WWII). Prime traits of modernism include emphases on the stream of consciousness technique, individualism, alienation, unorthodoxy and pessimism. Modernism marks a break with…

Postmodern, or contemporary, literature cannot be defined as easily as most other common or popular literary movements. The postmodern movement is often described as paradoxical, simultaneously creating and destabilizing meaning and conventions through the use of irony or criticism from works in the past (Lewis…