what is modernism ? we've told you many times here,but it is something you can never learn too much about,in order to grasp and understand the literature and concepts you have to analyze and understand the broadness of the writing,art,and poetry. it captivates us and makes us think. So for you to think , here are a few links located in the post above for you to enjoy.We hope you will appericate modernist culture as much as we do.
-the MS team.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
modern literature , a background story.
Modernist literature is an opening up of the world in all of its forms - theoretically, philosophically, aesthetically, and politically. Before Modernism, the world was thought of in a Realist's fashion - an image in reading of which projects the world in an objective fashion.
Modernist writing, however, takes the reader into a world of unfamiliarity, a deep introspection, a cognitive thought-provoking experience, skepticism of religion, and openness to culture, technology, and innovation.
the belief in a cyclical time also brings about free will and a cognitive exploration of the subconscious because the reader can climb inside the mind, away from the body and feel free to explore the inner working of one's mind and one's subconscious.
Modernist literature brought about openness in the ways in which authors wrote novel, poetry, and short story.
Politically, Modernist literature questioned and brought to life the changes within society. Life, in the nineteenth-century, took a shift from the country to the city, from the individuality in production to mass production, and from land to factory.
There was a permanent revolutionary shift in development, creation, and the belief in life. With the views of Carl Marx, a shift from capitalism began to take place. Because of the social and economic shifts which took place during this time - electronics, machinery, mass commodity - capitalism and the rise of the bourgeoisie eradicated feudalism and brought momentous forms of communication, transportation, and production.
Modernist literature encompasses the thematic fingerprints of a rebellious, questioning, disbelieving, meditative, and confident type of form, which was conceived out of a change in the belief of humanity, the mind, a God, and the self brought on by the shift from capitalism to an ever-increasing society of revolutionary changes.
-the MS team.
-the MS team.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
conversations,modernly.
today at MS we sat down with poet William Carlos Williams poet who is a physician as well.
we got to speak with him briefly about his life and his works.
a little overview of Williams ,
williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson.His father, William George Williams was an immigrant, and his mother, Raquel Monsantos was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He attended a public school in Rutherford until 1896, then was sent to study at Château de Lancy near Geneva, Switzerland, the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, France, for two years and Horace Mann School in New York City.in 1906 he spent the next four years in internships in New York City and in travel and postgraduate studies abroad at the University of Leipzig where he studied pediatrics.
MS: hello Dr.Williams , how are you today?
Williams:quite fine,thank you.
MS:what started your passion for poetry being that you are in the medical field?
Williams:well i am friends with various artists,authors,and poets through them i learned and understood the true passion of poetry.
MS:interesting.what was your first peice of work and do you remember?
Williams:of course! what writer or anyone in their respectful field of work forget their first time doing something that they learn or studied and loved to do, it was called "Between Walls" I beileve published in 1916.the poem was connected to my work in the hospital and described it in a somewhat vague way. i tried to be as simple but thought provoking as possible since it was my first peice of work.
MS:that is great,the poem here is a team favorite.Do you consider yourself a modernist poet or somewhat of a realist ?
Williams:I beileve you can say that, I try to connect my life experiences to my poems to make them as real for when you read them you can also imagine and realize. I want my readers to know that I do not write simply because I can but , because I love to do it.
MS:We also understand that you wrote a host of short stories , plays and autobiographies etcetera.How did you find time to juggle two extremely demanding careers?
Williams:yes,that is correct. I don't always consider my careers as jobs, its what i do on my spare time,both the medical and writing side. I do not think that I would eventually choose one over the other because they both satisify me.
MS:Are you a big fan of the literature used in other modernist works?
Williams: I wouldn't exactly call myself a big fan,but i do not use it in my work, as far as the classical examples and usage of foreign languages.I use what I call "The Local" meaning that I use and cite examples from the things happening and evolving around me. I dont want to define myself as a classical writer,I feel that i am a more timeless write , not to boast or brag , but i do want my work to be remembered for years to come.
MS:very well, did you beileve that you would garner the success that you did for the "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
Williams:Well, i did have a bit of faith , but you can never be too sure about how someone else views your work from their point of view. I wanted to write about the current times and connect my writings as a purely American experience. I do not like to write about the same thing , time and time again. its okay to change up sometimes.
MS:How do you use your experiences to help connect to the young writers you mentored and possibly others you may have influence that you haven't tutored ?
Williams:I Encouraged them to be as real as possible and write what they felt and connect to soicety and life and what they do. I don't always approve of the forms that some might write in, but I do beileve that every has a voice and want to persue a career in writing. its a truly beautiful thing.
MS:that it is , thank you Mr.Williams for allowing us a peice of your valued time to sit down and talk with us and it is greatly appericated and we here at MS wish success with the continuation of your careers.
Williams:Thank you for asking me too,and same to you as well. keep on writing !
there you have it modernists,one of the greats.
we hoped you have enjoyed reading the interview and if you want to know more about William Carlos Williams click on the link below.
click here.
enjoy.
-the MS team.
we got to speak with him briefly about his life and his works.
a little overview of Williams ,
williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson.His father, William George Williams was an immigrant, and his mother, Raquel Monsantos was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He attended a public school in Rutherford until 1896, then was sent to study at Château de Lancy near Geneva, Switzerland, the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, France, for two years and Horace Mann School in New York City.in 1906 he spent the next four years in internships in New York City and in travel and postgraduate studies abroad at the University of Leipzig where he studied pediatrics.
MS: hello Dr.Williams , how are you today?
Williams:quite fine,thank you.
MS:what started your passion for poetry being that you are in the medical field?
Williams:well i am friends with various artists,authors,and poets through them i learned and understood the true passion of poetry.
MS:interesting.what was your first peice of work and do you remember?
Williams:of course! what writer or anyone in their respectful field of work forget their first time doing something that they learn or studied and loved to do, it was called "Between Walls" I beileve published in 1916.the poem was connected to my work in the hospital and described it in a somewhat vague way. i tried to be as simple but thought provoking as possible since it was my first peice of work.
MS:that is great,the poem here is a team favorite.Do you consider yourself a modernist poet or somewhat of a realist ?
Williams:I beileve you can say that, I try to connect my life experiences to my poems to make them as real for when you read them you can also imagine and realize. I want my readers to know that I do not write simply because I can but , because I love to do it.
MS:We also understand that you wrote a host of short stories , plays and autobiographies etcetera.How did you find time to juggle two extremely demanding careers?
Williams:yes,that is correct. I don't always consider my careers as jobs, its what i do on my spare time,both the medical and writing side. I do not think that I would eventually choose one over the other because they both satisify me.
MS:Are you a big fan of the literature used in other modernist works?
Williams: I wouldn't exactly call myself a big fan,but i do not use it in my work, as far as the classical examples and usage of foreign languages.I use what I call "The Local" meaning that I use and cite examples from the things happening and evolving around me. I dont want to define myself as a classical writer,I feel that i am a more timeless write , not to boast or brag , but i do want my work to be remembered for years to come.
MS:very well, did you beileve that you would garner the success that you did for the "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
Williams:Well, i did have a bit of faith , but you can never be too sure about how someone else views your work from their point of view. I wanted to write about the current times and connect my writings as a purely American experience. I do not like to write about the same thing , time and time again. its okay to change up sometimes.
MS:How do you use your experiences to help connect to the young writers you mentored and possibly others you may have influence that you haven't tutored ?
Williams:I Encouraged them to be as real as possible and write what they felt and connect to soicety and life and what they do. I don't always approve of the forms that some might write in, but I do beileve that every has a voice and want to persue a career in writing. its a truly beautiful thing.
MS:that it is , thank you Mr.Williams for allowing us a peice of your valued time to sit down and talk with us and it is greatly appericated and we here at MS wish success with the continuation of your careers.
Williams:Thank you for asking me too,and same to you as well. keep on writing !
there you have it modernists,one of the greats.
we hoped you have enjoyed reading the interview and if you want to know more about William Carlos Williams click on the link below.
click here.
enjoy.
-the MS team.
black was modern too.
the black arts movement was a cutural moment that was a synonym to modernism. both inherently and overtly political in content, the Black Arts movement was the only American literary movement to advance "social engagement" as a sine qua non of its aesthetic. The movement broke from the immediate past of protest and petition (civil rights) literature and dashed forward toward an alternative that initially seemed unthinkable and unobtainable: Black Power.
-the MS team.
Although the movement was a cry for blacks to move ahead in American society , it also allowed a gateway for writers of color to become nationally recongized for their works and as well gave them a forum to the world to understand the struggles of the 1960s from before.
The movement spawned writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, LeRoi Jones,Nikki Giovanni,etc. the culture itself was a birthchild of the modernist genre and how vivid,boldly,and captivating the authors and poets wrote and how they felt.
Modernism was exactly that, it is a movement of free-thinking,new ideas,and freshly written theories.
The Black Arts movement was exactly that ,
here are a few excerpts to understand only a glimpse of what it was all about.
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
"We real cool. We
Left School. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon."
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon."
Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
"I always like summer
Best
you can eat fresh corn
From daddy's garden
And okra
And greens
And cabbage
And lots of
Barbeque
And buttermilk
And homemade ice-cream
At the church picnic
And listen to
Gospel music
Outside
At the church
Homecoming
And go to the mountains with
Your grandmother
And go barefooted
And be warm
All the time
Not only when you go to bed
And sleep"
Best
you can eat fresh corn
From daddy's garden
And okra
And greens
And cabbage
And lots of
Barbeque
And buttermilk
And homemade ice-cream
At the church picnic
And listen to
Gospel music
Outside
At the church
Homecoming
And go to the mountains with
Your grandmother
And go barefooted
And be warm
All the time
Not only when you go to bed
And sleep"
and if you want to look at more about black arts heres a link for you to enjoy.
-the MS team.
Friday, March 26, 2010
abstract , experimenting minds,
modernism has many facets of how it is connected today and even the times of yesterday as well , because of how technology had advance and the way we interact and communicate with others is all thanks to modernism and yes , that's literature included. because of how the forefathers of this time period has paved and launched a way for modernists to burst out of their seams such as arctechiture, science, art and literature of course. does it still exist today? of course, its around the world even in your own frontyard. If you look closely you have places such as the Museum of Modern Art , located in New York and California.
If you want to learn more about it.
here is the site ,
museum of modern art website.
go out and look at an exhibit , and enrich your modern mind.
-the MS team.
If you want to learn more about it.
here is the site ,
museum of modern art website.
go out and look at an exhibit , and enrich your modern mind.
-the MS team.
modern videos.
if you havent understood what we have been saying all along, here is a video that may or may not futher clarify our purpose here. here is a video we looked up on youtube,
titled , 'Modernism to Post-Modernism,WHAT ?'.
happy watching modern folk ,
-the MS team.
titled , 'Modernism to Post-Modernism,WHAT ?'.
happy watching modern folk ,
-the MS team.
is literature connected to art ?
the answer to that is yes , modernism is just solely based on writing , it is a movement and culture. well-known artists and painters such as pablo picasso, edvard munch, and best known andy warhol are examples.
the defintion of modernist art :
Modern art refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art. More recent artistic production is often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art.
have you ever seen a peice of modern art ?
you have but never notice but may have always said it was "cool" or "interesting".
here are examples ,
Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911, oil on canvas.
the defintion of modernist art :
Modern art refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art. More recent artistic production is often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art.
have you ever seen a peice of modern art ?
you have but never notice but may have always said it was "cool" or "interesting".
here are examples ,
Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911, oil on canvas.
Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, 1962.
have you had your modern fix today ?
-the MS team.
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