dc.contributor.author | Kalantidou, Eleni | |
dc.contributor.editor | C. Edwards | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-09T00:35:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-09T00:35:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781472521552 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/141781 | |
dc.description.abstract | To define Modernity is to define humankind and all its activities within a specific time period. As a concept and reality, it stems from a number of eras, movements, disciplines, and spheres of knowledge. It has taken a number of different interpretations in relation to economy, society, technology, culture, politics, human psychology, and behavior, but what always remains the same in these defining attempts is the reference to Modernity’s catalytic impact and transformative character. For more than 300 years, its influences have shaped the perception and value of human life, logic, ethos and ethnos, morality, and religion. Without having exactly the same influence on all cultures and countries, Modernity has managed to impose its prescription of success and failure, superiority and inferiority, development and underdevelopment. In his book All That Is Solid Melts into Air, Marshall Berman (1982) wrote about the distinction between Modernity, Modernization, and modernism in his attempt to capture the discourse that has greatly determined the present and future of all the material entities of this planet, characterizing Modernity as “maelstrom” and being modern living “a life of paradox and contradiction” (Ibid., p. 13). | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | english | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Bloomsbury | |
dc.publisher.place | United States | |
dc.publisher.uri | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/the-bloomsbury-encyclopedia-of-design-9781472521576/ | |
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitle | The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design vol 2 | |
dc.relation.ispartofchapter | 50 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 394 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 399 | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 2 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 129999 | |
dc.title | Modernity and Modernism | |
dc.type | Book chapter | |
dc.type.description | B1 - Chapters | |
dc.type.code | B - Book Chapters | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, Queensland College of Art | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Kalantidou, Eleni | |