Hi all! Thanks for watching, I hope you found the useful enlightening in some small way! If you'd like me to make more videos like this, and to influence which topics I cover next, then I've just launched a Patreon. I'd love it if you'd pop over and check it out and, if you're able, to consider supporting my channel. Thanks! Tom. www.patreon.com/tomnicholas
How are you prince can you answer me the question discuss the origion and development of modrenism how is it represented inthe 20c.british novel explain briefly with examples
wow, a genuinely enjoyable human being who's educated on my academic topics and good at/kind with educating others! I wish I went to college with more people like you. seems like no one (that I end up conversing with in my classes) wants to absorb knowledge anymore, and anyone who gets as passionate as you is too quiet for me to know of them lmao so thank you
This is so great! Even though I have had many lectures about modernism in university, you were the first person to clearly state that the modernist artists believed they were making works that were fundamentally better than what came before. The example of the manifestos is great to illustrate that as well. Thank you!
So glad you found this helpful. I’ve found similarly that the general stuff which connects them often gets overlooked. Once I’d drawn this connection, I definitely found it so much easier to understand different movements within Modernism!
Just discovered you're channel I genuinly think you are one of the best ones we can find online as students. My essay on modernism will be much more simple thanks to you. Thank you a lot !
I hope this helps some of you out who might be struggling with understanding modernism! There's a little bit of further reading in the description and, as always, any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them down here in the comments!
I still strugle. Guernica 3:58 : A pastiche of a Rubens painting (1629) represents Modernism. Where Modernism is defined here as: _Rejecting the artistic forms and ideas that came before them_ 5:45 What to say? Sometimes academic consensus feels empty. There is Picasso commenting about Lascaux (120+ century bce) _Nous n'avons rien appris_
Thanks, Tom! I used this video to help teach my high school English students about Modernism as a movement before reading Kafka's Metamorphosis. Great video!
Thanks Katherine, it's always really nice to hear when teachers are using my videos! Hope your students are finding it useful and that they enjoy the book!
As a French student in English studies, this video was highly informative, and I was acquainted with many elements of knowledge !! You've just gained a new subscriber !
Tom, you’re my new hero; I just aced my oral exam on architectural theory and I’m pretty sure your videos on WTF played a big part in that. So THANK YOU! If you’re wondering what I’m gonna do with all my free time from now on: binging your politix series...
Ah, awesome, I'm glad I managed to keep it simple, sometimes it's a hard balance to strike ensuring that they both dig into the theory while also remaining accessible! Thanks for watching!
Thank God, I found you. Your explanation is really simple and easy to digest. It does motivate me to do further reading. The negative side is, why I just found you today? It's kinda close to my paper's due date...
This video helped me a lot last semester on my 21st Century Literature class. Now I have Contemporary Arts and all the things I've learned from this video just came back to me. I just wanted to say thank you for this!
Thank you for this video. I'm studying English Literature as one of my A-Levels at this point in time and we have to learn about this and postmodernism for the context for the unseen prose section in our unseen exam.
Thanks for this video. Certainly harder to see the commonality between the spectrum of art that is under the umbrella of modernism. I think the way of thinking is key here; however the styles very, the intent of questioning what came before, the influence of the world wars and a depression all have a part in that. I've heard that the questioning, the tearing down of what came before, stems from a sense of questioning the inner self, the uncertainty that resulted from multiple upheavals. It looks inward at the emotions, the underlying aspect rather than the act of representation. I used to wonder why the modernist era threw away craft and skill and thought some of them were simply too lazy or were compensating for poor skills, but no, they were trying to convey in their art things that were deeper, and more abstract, and find new ways of seeing. So many ways they did that.
That was brilliantly stated! I understand it now! Seriously, I was having a really hard time figuring it out and your video demystified it. Totally get it now, thank you!
Hey Tom! It is very interesting that you pointed out a strive for utopianism and departure from tradition in the visual arts and in politics, which is also true in architecture. Do you happen to know what propelled such drastic change across multiple disciplines during that period, can it really be completely attributed to the Industrial Revolution?
It's so interesting to me that all of these different people in different cultural spheres all thought there could be objectively correct answers to anything, when I, someone growing up as a teenager now, believe the opposite. I think the natural successor to a generation so certain about objective truth is a generation who questions the very existence of, and the possibility that there could be an objective truth. Great video
Tom here single handled saving my life here as my essay is due tomorrow. Thank you Tom, you are amazing For all my fellow students, don’t forget to drink water and to stretch every so often.
Huh, looking it up... I'm not sure, but maybe that's what I am? My own position is that there's no such thing as "unreal." That is, the purely subjective is still its own objective existence. In fact, it's the ONLY objective reality we can be sure of. This involves a breaking down between binaries like nature/construction and fiction/fact. That is, we and the constructions we create are a part of nature, fiction is as much a part of our real lives as fact (which we can never be sure of in the first place, untrustworthy as perception and memory are).
Postmodernism should be my next What the Theory video so should be out in the next month or so! Also, postcolonialism is a great idea, I hadn't got that on my list but definately will add it!
You do really excellent content, and your descriptions of these elements of philosophy are actually imo better than Oliver Thorn, for me at least. It's concise, succinct and eloquent without meandering too much. Of course Ollie does a more theatrical approach and he does great videos, but this is more like a university course in 20 mins. Well done
very helpful! cheers mate! I just have a few questions: 1. is it possible to date modernism to a specific time period since as you mentioned it's kinda like a mesh of multi-movements and time periods from late 19th century to early 20th century. 2. is there a face of modernism movement? no one particular artist is responsible for this social change, yet who do you find to be the most influential of this time frame / movement and why? which art piece? 3. do you have a favourite artist from this time? thanks again! - Zoe
ABSOLUTE Sub. Well done, keep doing what you're doing. I plan on rewatching this to help it sink in. Excited about the Pomo vid coming soon. Especially with the political climate on youtube right now surrounding postmodernism. (excellent blending of art and socio- political currents in this video !!)
Ah cheers! Should be the next thing I put out now. Hoping to balance it well to slightly address some of that while also being accessible to peeps not completely down the TH-cam political rabbit hole just yet. Although, very keen to debunk this whole THE EVIL POSTMODERNISTS thing which, like, doesn’t even make sense...
Absolutely fantastic!! I would love to see a video on your analysis of Jordan Peterson. I think that your videos are every bit as interesting as his. It seems to me that the two of you are really going to string the intellectual world between you. Absolutely fantastic insights!!
Thanks a lot for the video, i really liked it. I have a question and i hope you are going to answer me. How can we associate the telephone to modernism? It is the theme of my presentation.
This video is really helpful. Can you do one on the feminist movements across the cultures and eras? Explain different waves and reasons for emergence. It will really help Thanks!!
So Modernism is a term given to an era between the late 19th and mid 20th century which primarily expressed this notion not only that art could become better - separated from past concepts of Artistic creation in that they were inspired by the goal of attaining artistic value in of itself (and not for God), but objectively so, with this idea of objectivity leading to the creation of many new ideologies seeking to present themselves as the new modern future for humanity? Nice.
My friend, you gotta work on pronouncing Guernica lol (Gare-NEE-kah. -- stress is on the NEE) -- and thanks for the help! Just started grad school and Im taking a class on el Modernismo (modern Spanish literature)
That was really helpful .. thanks a lot ... I just would like to ask if it's possible to make a video about the literary theory and literary criticism.. and the difference between them
Hi Tom, I appreciate your efforts.. your videos were of a great help for me (as a beginner cultural studies student). can you please do a video on deconstruction? + Any suggested introductory books about postmodernism?.. Thanks a lot
Abdessamia Bencheikh Hey Abdessamia, thanks for the feedback, so glad you’re finding them helpful! There’s definitely one on deconstruction planned for the not too distant future. Might be a month or two though as they do take a little while to put together! I’ll have to do some reading up too as it’s not something I’ve had to use or talk about for a little while now!
Deconstruction is on my list. No particular suggestions for books but, generally, I find the Oxford Very Short Introductions great, or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is pretty good. 🙂
I think of "modern" as simply being a "broad breaking with" whatever cultural (arts, styles, technology etc) current mode that has become the now-widely-entrenched/"this is the way things are" sense of things. I'm not sure that modernism is at heart a "rejection of the past" but is simply an evolutionary process that says, essentially, things have changed, as in there are new paradigms to integrate into/with the past---and we can that advancement. Artists' egos may be behind the "I reject the past" idea, but that's just boastfulness.
I haven't actually read this particular book, however, I'm really keen on the Oxford Very Short Introduction series. Christopher Butler has written one on Modernism which I'd suggest checking out. Other than that, I'd suggest tracking down a book which talks about Modernism within the particular artform that you're hoping to write about as this will give some specific examples of how Modernism impacted upon that form.
We are in the AI-ISM era, ie post-human-ism/modern-ism, and even zen's "ism-ism". (Tho we may wind up back at this very same point via AI-ism once we are Post-AI-ism. Just guessing.)
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Hi all! Thanks for watching, I hope you found the useful enlightening in some small way! If you'd like me to make more videos like this, and to influence which topics I cover next, then I've just launched a Patreon. I'd love it if you'd pop over and check it out and, if you're able, to consider supporting my channel. Thanks! Tom. www.patreon.com/tomnicholas
Dude. I found it to be THE SHIT. PLEASE do one of the very understated Arthur Rimbaud!!!!
How are you prince can you answer me the question discuss the origion and development of modrenism how is it represented inthe 20c.british novel explain briefly with examples
Can you please tell me what program you use to make your videos?
I don't think I have written an essay for college without watching one of your videos. Thank you for helping me pass my assignments!!
I'm glad my videos have been helpful but I'm sure that you passing was all you! Hope they went well!
You just saved someone from South Africa who lost her notes and is writing an art history exam.
Haha, no worries, bet of luck with the exam!!
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wow, a genuinely enjoyable human being who's educated on my academic topics and good at/kind with educating others!
I wish I went to college with more people like you. seems like no one (that I end up conversing with in my classes) wants to absorb knowledge anymore, and anyone who gets as passionate as you is too quiet for me to know of them lmao so thank you
This is so great! Even though I have had many lectures about modernism in university, you were the first person to clearly state that the modernist artists believed they were making works that were fundamentally better than what came before. The example of the manifestos is great to illustrate that as well. Thank you!
So glad you found this helpful. I’ve found similarly that the general stuff which connects them often gets overlooked. Once I’d drawn this connection, I definitely found it so much easier to understand different movements within Modernism!
Just discovered you're channel I genuinly think you are one of the best ones we can find online as students. My essay on modernism will be much more simple thanks to you. Thank you a lot !
I hope this helps some of you out who might be struggling with understanding modernism! There's a little bit of further reading in the description and, as always, any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them down here in the comments!
thank you very much from Chile!
No worries, cheers for watching!
I still strugle. Guernica 3:58 : A pastiche of a Rubens painting (1629) represents Modernism. Where Modernism is defined here as: _Rejecting the artistic forms and ideas that came before them_ 5:45
What to say? Sometimes academic consensus feels empty. There is Picasso commenting about Lascaux (120+ century bce) _Nous n'avons rien appris_
Thanks, Tom! I used this video to help teach my high school English students about Modernism as a movement before reading Kafka's Metamorphosis. Great video!
Thanks Katherine, it's always really nice to hear when teachers are using my videos! Hope your students are finding it useful and that they enjoy the book!
I love this. Although the title says "An Introduction," it pretty much summarized the most important aspects of the movement. Thanks so much.
As a French student in English studies, this video was highly informative, and I was acquainted with many elements of knowledge !! You've just gained a new subscriber !
TOM. You are single handedly saving me and my degree 😂 thank you so much, please don’t stop what you’re doing, you’re amazing it at! 😁👍🔥💃🦷
Haha, I'm sure that's not the case Emma and that it's you "saving" your degree off your own back but, don't worry, I'll keep making videos!
lucid, crisp and explained with the help of relatively easy-to-understand examples! great job, Tom!!
Thought he said he was a "Peachy D student"
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Tom, you’re my new hero; I just aced my oral exam on architectural theory and I’m pretty sure your videos on WTF played a big part in that. So THANK YOU! If you’re wondering what I’m gonna do with all my free time from now on: binging your politix series...
Love how you explain things so simply! Thanks for these videos, I look forward to your video on postmodernism!
Ah, awesome, I'm glad I managed to keep it simple, sometimes it's a hard balance to strike ensuring that they both dig into the theory while also remaining accessible! Thanks for watching!
This really helped me in my literature test about modernism, thank you for the clear explanation.
could not have been better explained in such a short time... Thank you very much, this has been very helpful...
Thank you for saying so, really glad you found it helpful!
Thanks for this video! For me as an "amateur" in arts this was very helpful!
Really glad you found it helpful!
Thank God, I found you. Your explanation is really simple and easy to digest. It does motivate me to do further reading. The negative side is, why I just found you today? It's kinda close to my paper's due date...
This video helped me a lot last semester on my 21st Century Literature class. Now I have Contemporary Arts and all the things I've learned from this video just came back to me. I just wanted to say thank you for this!
Thank you for this video. I'm studying English Literature as one of my A-Levels at this point in time and we have to learn about this and postmodernism for the context for the unseen prose section in our unseen exam.
super helpful for starting my second year in English! thank you so much!
Thanks for this video. Certainly harder to see the commonality between the spectrum of art that is under the umbrella of modernism. I think the way of thinking is key here; however the styles very, the intent of questioning what came before, the influence of the world wars and a depression all have a part in that. I've heard that the questioning, the tearing down of what came before, stems from a sense of questioning the inner self, the uncertainty that resulted from multiple upheavals. It looks inward at the emotions, the underlying aspect rather than the act of representation. I used to wonder why the modernist era threw away craft and skill and thought some of them were simply too lazy or were compensating for poor skills, but no, they were trying to convey in their art things that were deeper, and more abstract, and find new ways of seeing. So many ways they did that.
Thank you, really useful video for my art history exam. You have a very pleasant voice to listen to!
Tom, outstanding, interesting and brilliant presentation. Keep up the good work. The world needs your bright insight!
Complex content communicated in a very informative and interesting way.
Your explanations are so clear!! It helped me a lot understanding the whole modernism thing.
Doing the English State teacher licensure here in Argentina. Thanks a lot, you have a perfect way of summarizing ideas.
this is a great video. Well edited and easy to listen to. hope your channel gets some more attention!
Ahh, thanks for saying so Luke! Really glad you got something out of it!
It is an awesome video. It's very helpful, clear and precise. I really enjoyed the video. Well done 👏
Thank you. This was a useful introduction to the subject for my students.
No problems, glad you found it useful!
It is a cultural movement that contains multiple art and literary movements within it.
I finally understood what was dragged on for months in classes. Thank you :)
That was brilliantly stated! I understand it now! Seriously, I was having a really hard time figuring it out and your video demystified it. Totally get it now, thank you!
Wow, this was incredibly well articulated! Thank you for your content.
Hey Tom! It is very interesting that you pointed out a strive for utopianism and departure from tradition in the visual arts and in politics, which is also true in architecture. Do you happen to know what propelled such drastic change across multiple disciplines during that period, can it really be completely attributed to the Industrial Revolution?
It's so interesting to me that all of these different people in different cultural spheres all thought there could be objectively correct answers to anything, when I, someone growing up as a teenager now, believe the opposite. I think the natural successor to a generation so certain about objective truth is a generation who questions the very existence of, and the possibility that there could be an objective truth. Great video
Tom here single handled saving my life here as my essay is due tomorrow.
Thank you Tom, you are amazing
For all my fellow students, don’t forget to drink water and to stretch every so often.
Make sure to do one on “metamodernism”
Huh, looking it up... I'm not sure, but maybe that's what I am? My own position is that there's no such thing as "unreal." That is, the purely subjective is still its own objective existence. In fact, it's the ONLY objective reality we can be sure of. This involves a breaking down between binaries like nature/construction and fiction/fact. That is, we and the constructions we create are a part of nature, fiction is as much a part of our real lives as fact (which we can never be sure of in the first place, untrustworthy as perception and memory are).
I’m still waiting on the literary part😞💔
Are you going to make a video on postmodernism and post colonialism?
Postmodernism should be my next What the Theory video so should be out in the next month or so! Also, postcolonialism is a great idea, I hadn't got that on my list but definately will add it!
Tom Nicholas thank you ♡
You do really excellent content, and your descriptions of these elements of philosophy are actually imo better than Oliver Thorn, for me at least. It's concise, succinct and eloquent without meandering too much. Of course Ollie does a more theatrical approach and he does great videos, but this is more like a university course in 20 mins. Well done
very helpful! cheers mate!
I just have a few questions:
1. is it possible to date modernism to a specific time period since as you mentioned it's kinda like a mesh of multi-movements and time periods from late 19th century to early 20th century.
2. is there a face of modernism movement? no one particular artist is responsible for this social change, yet who do you find to be the most influential of this time frame / movement and why? which art piece?
3. do you have a favourite artist from this time?
thanks again!
- Zoe
Great video, love the expertise and the accessible style
Thanks for the video mate, racking my head thinking about this modernism stuff. This helped a lot.
nicely done.responded to the sincerity of the" new broom".
ABSOLUTE Sub. Well done,
keep doing what you're doing.
I plan on rewatching this to help
it sink in. Excited about the Pomo vid
coming soon. Especially with the
political climate on youtube right
now surrounding postmodernism.
(excellent blending of art and socio-
political currents in this video !!)
Ah cheers! Should be the next thing I put out now. Hoping to balance it well to slightly address some of that while also being accessible to peeps not completely down the TH-cam political rabbit hole just yet. Although, very keen to debunk this whole THE EVIL POSTMODERNISTS thing which, like, doesn’t even make sense...
Absolutely fantastic!! I would love to see a video on your analysis of Jordan Peterson. I think that your videos are every bit as interesting as his. It seems to me that the two of you are really going to string the intellectual world between you. Absolutely fantastic insights!!
Thanks a lot for the video, i really liked it. I have a question and i hope you are going to answer me. How can we associate the telephone to modernism? It is the theme of my presentation.
Great as always - thank you!!
Thank you for saying so!
this guy's video out here saving our GPAs
Thank you, Tim
This video is really helpful.
Can you do one on the feminist movements across the cultures and eras? Explain different waves and reasons for emergence.
It will really help
Thanks!!
Ha, someone else just asked for pretty much exactly the same video. I like the idea of this so I'll see what I can come up with!
Very intresting video! Where did you find the video of T.S. Eliot reading Four Quartets?
Thank you T.Nicholas
Super helpful! Thank you
GREAT STUFF mate.
Just wow 💕 we want modernism in literature please
Thanks for teaching me things my teacher should have.
Thanks, man!! Was of great help!!
This video is so helpful , thanks a bunch
I fw you harry potter, you got me with the "lend me a subscribe"
So Modernism is a term given to an era between the late 19th and mid 20th century which primarily expressed this notion not only that art could become better - separated from past concepts of Artistic creation in that they were inspired by the goal of attaining artistic value in of itself (and not for God), but objectively so, with this idea of objectivity leading to the creation of many new ideologies seeking to present themselves as the new modern future for humanity?
Nice.
This is really helpful thank you so much !!!
For all the IB Students completing their TOK EA and have an Art AoK, this video is the truth 🙏🏾
Thank you for this very beneficial video
Tom, you're awesome 👌🏽
My friend, you gotta work on pronouncing Guernica lol (Gare-NEE-kah. -- stress is on the NEE) -- and thanks for the help! Just started grad school and Im taking a class on el Modernismo (modern Spanish literature)
This is great! You've just earned a new subscriber
Thanks Rahma, hope you enjoy the rest of the videos!
informative and to the point especially when you watch it at 1.75x playback speed.
Hey Nicos are you think postmodern is bad or good?
That was really helpful .. thanks a lot ... I just would like to ask if it's possible to make a video about the literary theory and literary criticism.. and the difference between them
Great video!
Hi Tom, I appreciate your efforts.. your videos were of a great help for me (as a beginner cultural studies student). can you please do a video on deconstruction? + Any suggested introductory books about postmodernism?.. Thanks a lot
Abdessamia Bencheikh Hey Abdessamia, thanks for the feedback, so glad you’re finding them helpful!
There’s definitely one on deconstruction planned for the not too distant future. Might be a month or two though as they do take a little while to put together!
I’ll have to do some reading up too as it’s not something I’ve had to use or talk about for a little while now!
Deconstruction is on my list. No particular suggestions for books but, generally, I find the Oxford Very Short Introductions great, or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is pretty good. 🙂
oh.. thank you again. waiting for your next (y)
Just found your videos. They're great!! Thank you :)
Ah, thanks for saying so Armando!
Great video thank you ❤
I think of "modern" as simply being a "broad breaking with" whatever cultural (arts, styles, technology etc) current mode that has become the now-widely-entrenched/"this is the way things are" sense of things.
I'm not sure that modernism is at heart a "rejection of the past" but is simply an evolutionary process that says, essentially, things have changed, as in there are new paradigms to integrate into/with the past---and we can that advancement. Artists' egos may be behind the "I reject the past" idea, but that's just boastfulness.
'Four Quarters' of TS Eliot is really funny... you mean Quartets?
Thank you this is really useful!
So informative!
Will you do a video on Victorian Literature?
Thanks for the video. I was hoping some more depth about the ideological currents and basis of modernism. The video focused too much on art
I love your works
Awesome man, really helpful!
No worries, glad it was handy!
THANK. YOU. SO. MUCH.
good work!
Thanks for your insight. Very helpful.
Thanks Dennis!
Also for anyone who is interested in how modernism manifested in architecture, I made two videos on this topic!
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Thank you!
thank you!!! great vid
Very helpful.
Brilliant lecture.
Cheers Ira!
Great Sir
Hey- what are some ideal books that discuss modernism in order to cover themes and be able to write an essay?
I haven't actually read this particular book, however, I'm really keen on the Oxford Very Short Introduction series. Christopher Butler has written one on Modernism which I'd suggest checking out. Other than that, I'd suggest tracking down a book which talks about Modernism within the particular artform that you're hoping to write about as this will give some specific examples of how Modernism impacted upon that form.
"Modernism" by Chales Harrison. This might be a little late for your essay, but if anyone else is reading this :) it´s a short book!
Morphine and watching videos about modernism. Chillin rn
Great video. Thanks
Thanks for saying so Delphine, glad you found it interesting!
That helps. Thanks man
We are in the AI-ISM era, ie post-human-ism/modern-ism, and even zen's "ism-ism". (Tho we may wind up back at this very same point via AI-ism once we are Post-AI-ism. Just guessing.)
Now understand why impressionism never caught on in Ireland.
can anyone tell me how a video like this is made!