Modernism
By
Peter Childs

Modernism

I took out this book from the library to help me out with understanding modernism which I have come to understand a bit easier after reading some of the book. However it is mainly talking about modernist writing and literature but was helpful in defining modernism and postmodernism. Modernism is art that Harold Rosenberg calls "The art of the new" so it is very experimental, complex and shows a lot of freedom that artist has from realism, materialism and traditional art techniques, artists such as Picasso.