The document discusses the emergence of modernism in relation to the metropolis. It analyzes how modernism developed as a response to the rise of large cities and new forms of urban life in the late 19th century. Modernist works reflected the fragmentation, alienation, and rapid changes that characterized life in metropolitan areas during this period of industrialization and urbanization.
Original Description:
Raymond Williams on alienation
Original Title
The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism - Raymond Williams
The document discusses the emergence of modernism in relation to the metropolis. It analyzes how modernism developed as a response to the rise of large cities and new forms of urban life in the late 19th century. Modernist works reflected the fragmentation, alienation, and rapid changes that characterized life in metropolitan areas during this period of industrialization and urbanization.
The document discusses the emergence of modernism in relation to the metropolis. It analyzes how modernism developed as a response to the rise of large cities and new forms of urban life in the late 19th century. Modernist works reflected the fragmentation, alienation, and rapid changes that characterized life in metropolitan areas during this period of industrialization and urbanization.