I liked how the book "Introducing Modernism" described how the modernist movement appeared in each form of art: literature, paintings, architecture, music, film....As a writer, it often offends me when people insist writing isn't art, and it was nice to read a book that embraces the realization that there are many forms of art. On page 39, I liked reading the fractured words that surrounded the image of a face and the explanation that it was part of a "collage" tactic. Page 48 of the book mentioned how modernist works are not straightforward and easy to understand; one has to try and understand the work in order to discover what it is about, but of course that means each individual gleans different understandings due to his/her own perception of the work. Page 44 was quite fascinating, as it discussed the idea of making new things and abandoning the past while simultaneously mentioning that the work may contain "very strong traces of he old, the classical or the primitive." So it's trying to get away from something it's echoing?
In general, I found this book to be just as interesting as the post-modernism book but somewhat easier to understand...perhaps that's just the book itself, or maybe it's because we already have background knowledge regarding the subject....
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