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Three Minute Philosophy - Immanuel Kant

Three Minute Philosophy - Immanuel Kant

Littérature francophone virtuelle ClicNet: Littérature francophone virtuelle Consultez le site de Thomas Spear Les liens ne sont plus actualisés depuis 5 ans, consultez WebLettres, Fabula etc... Les liens de ClicNet donnent accès à des documents protégés par des droits d'auteur. Modernism Hans Hofmann, "The Gate", 1959–1960, collection: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Hofmann was renowned not only as an artist but also as a teacher of art, and a modernist theorist both in his native Germany and later in the U.S. During the 1930s in New York and California he introduced Modernism and modernist theories to a new generation of American artists. Through his teaching and his lectures at his art schools in Greenwich Village and Provincetown, Massachusetts, he widened the scope of Modernism in the United States.[1] Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. History[edit] Beginnings: the 19th century[edit] However, the Industrial Revolution continued. The beginnings of modernism in France[edit] Influential in the early days of Modernism were the theories of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). Explosion, early 20th century to 1930[edit]

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