《Unit10西方文化导论》.ppt

U3_main;Get Started_ main;Get Started_1.1;Get Started_1.1;Get Started_1.2;Get Started_2.1;Text Study _main;Text Study _I_1.4; a salient characteristic of Modernism—individual awareness The core of Modernist thought— i. the sense of despair, bitterness and anxiety: the death of all modern idols: God, man, reason, science, progress and history age of anxiety: anxiety of meaninglessness (loss of a spiritual center, faith and values) ii. the maturation of the modernist movement: literary revolution by the “lost generation”: to rebel against the senseless slaughter of WWI and the traditional values artistic revolution by the Dada: to break with the values of the 19th century and its philosophical and personal materialism and its rationalism ;Text Study _I_1.5;Text Study _I_1.5;Text Study _I_1.4;Text Study _I_1.4;Text Study _I_1.4;Text Study _I_2.1;Text Study _I_2.2;Text Study _I_2.3;Text Study _I_2.5;Text Study _I_2.2;International Style 国际风格: A major architectural style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, the formative decades of Modernist architecture. The term had its origin from the name of a book by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson written to record the International Exhibition of Modern Architecture held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1932 which identified, categorized and expanded upon characteristics common to Modernism across the world. As a result, the focus was more on the stylistic aspects of Modernism. Hitchcock’s and Johnson’s aims were to define a style of the time, which would encapsulate this modern architecture. They identified three different principles: the ;Text Study _I_2.5;Text Study _I_2.6;Text Study _I_2.5;Text Study _I_3.1;Text Study _I_3.1; Modernism, in its broadest sense, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural schools