Friday, 5 November 2010

contextual studies: modernism/thoughts

modernism: 1960 - onward.
1960 = uncomfortable bras, revolutionary music (pop), Drugs, drug culture, equal rights, colour, hair styles, bellbottoms/flares. protesting, hippies, Vietnam, drugs.
people grew vocal chords, so to speak... that doesn't read right. the public became very vocal about government actions eg. vietnam war. rebellion in western culture is now cool. student-organized protests.
perhaps farm-ville is such a popular game because it is touching (very faintly) on the sort of lives that we should be living.   

1 comment:

  1. Modernism could be thought to end in 1960 and be replaced by postmodernism. The Postmodern Condition more accurately describes the social experience that you are attempting to define.

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