From Sharon Maher Sent Thu, Aug 5th 1999, 23:31
From Sharon Maher Sent Thu, Aug 5th 1999, 23:31
> >I think the key to post-post modernism is the rise of digital technology, > >and that most of what is being said about that right now is about as accurate Modern, when it is used in relation to art, almost always means "that era 40-60 years ago." Case in point: poetry. In the 50s the "modern" era of poetry meant the Romantics, ie Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, etc. Today, the "modern" poets are the those who wrote in the 20s & 30s such as Eliot, Pound, Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, etc. By the time we reach 2020 maybe the highly touted writers of the 50s and 60s will be considered "modern." My whole point to this is the terms "modern" and "post-modern" are rediculously subjective. So why even bother?