The Flat Period. The period when architecture, art and furnishings were flattened out. Additionally, refers to the outmoded belief that the world was flat and if ships sailed out too far they would come to the end of the earth. Modernism arrogantly states that we have reached the limits of culture, so in effect culture can't move forward as it will fall off of the end of the earth.
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Modernism
It has been brought to my attention that "modern" means "characteristic of present and recent time; contemporary." This is directly opposed to the definition of Modernism, which is "a movement in the arts, or forms of expression that distinguished styles in the arts and literature of the 20th century." We refer to Modernism as a closed period in history, while the actual definition of the term "modern" means up to the moment; current; the here and now. In the spirit of Revisionist art history, this blog seeks to find the best term with which we can re-name Modernism. The machine age? Post-Romanticism? Narcissism? Surely you can do better. Please use this blog as the forum for discussion of this important, and realistic, historical revision.
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