Modernism

-"The tradition of the new"
breaking with what came before (in order to do that, a tradition is needed)

-Mimesis      v.      Representation

-Role of the artist: someone who knows better
                            someone who illuminates the public

-Awareness of artifice

-Fragmentation

-Multiple perspectives

-"Strangled victim"

-isms: Futurism
          Dadaism
          Surrealism



Ortega y Gasset, José. "La deshumanización del arte".

Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence.