KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERNITY

In this essay I shall attempt to discuss some of the many key characteristics of modernity with an overview of politics and history relevant to modernity and later focus on the Bauhaus movement to articulate some of these key characteristics in more detail.

Modernity - just what does it mean and when exactly did it happen ? The more publications one refers to in order to help clarify an answer to this question, the more confusing it all becomes. With each newly found authority discovered, comes the realisation that even the historians and cultural theorists seem to disagree widely over exact dates, cultural ‘Movements’, and the significant events which contribute to the definition and discourse of the concept Modernity.

Might one argue that Modernity came to encapsulate what ever was ‘modern’ for the period in which it emerged, or was created, but this seems too easy an explanation. Perhaps we should refer to the art historian Charles Harrison for some guidance.

Harrison seems in little doubt about such definitions, claiming that “Convention distinguishes three

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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)