HUMANITIES

Humanities

Humanities

Introduction

Modern art encompassed a variety of artists, styles, and movements from the mid-18th to the mid-20th centuries that shared a response to and engagement with the technological, social, and cultural conditions viewed as new and distinct from the past. What emerged in painting, sculpture, architecture, and design was distinguished by the use of materials, techniques and forms generating meanings that departed, often radically, from previous artistic traditions. Although the response to new conditions in Western societies and the motivation to create new art is common to modernist art, debates about modernist art's relationship to society have ranged widely. Two ...