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critical modernism: where is post-modernism going? what is post-modernism?, 5th edition
charles jencks
Synopsis "critical modernism: where is post-modernism going? what is post-modernism?, 5th edition"
critical modernism is shown here to emerge at two different levels. first, as an underground movement, it is the notion that there are many modernisms (not a single or ideology). the critical aspect is reacting to two very different things: its own internal problems and the outside world as it finds it, today: globalisation and the terrorist debacle. in the arts it means looking critically at both the content and formal languages of creation, simultaneously; while it also shares with critical theory the idea of exposing ideologies in order to enhance freedom, both of the group and individual. as far as modernism is concerned, there is the usual thrust towards progress, competition and the romantic urge to overcome the previous generation. this results in a curious continuity and break the swerve and the concealed repetition. second, as these movements follow each other in quick succession, as they do today, they may reach a critical mass, a modernism, and become a conscious tradition. after two hundred years of one modernism replacing another, this might result in a more reflexive movement, one mature enough to reflect on its own dark side while celebrating creativity a tradition coming of age.
