Perception influences perspective.
Any set of circumstances that impacts society directly will be reflected in widespread culture.
With war and plague emerge the flagellants and the danse macabre; the advent of the printing press increases literacy, then captures and conveys the oral tradition, particularly the ballad form; elevation of reason brings forth a reaction in romanticism, as skepticism and scientific materialism challenge the status quo of faith. Impressionism, aestheticism, decadence, cubism, abstract expressionism, and pop art follow. T.S. Eliot expresses disintegration, first shoring the classical ruins with poetic fragments, and ultimately envisioning renewal of psyche and culture.
And as the Age of Empire brought about vast cultural diffusion, so contemporary technology provides for it today, as well as for the greater democratization of communication wrought first by the movable type press.
What comes next, even in modernist terms and the context of very recent history, is beyond what came before, and is already happening.
Any set of circumstances that impacts society directly will be reflected in widespread culture.
With war and plague emerge the flagellants and the danse macabre; the advent of the printing press increases literacy, then captures and conveys the oral tradition, particularly the ballad form; elevation of reason brings forth a reaction in romanticism, as skepticism and scientific materialism challenge the status quo of faith. Impressionism, aestheticism, decadence, cubism, abstract expressionism, and pop art follow. T.S. Eliot expresses disintegration, first shoring the classical ruins with poetic fragments, and ultimately envisioning renewal of psyche and culture.
And as the Age of Empire brought about vast cultural diffusion, so contemporary technology provides for it today, as well as for the greater democratization of communication wrought first by the movable type press.
What comes next, even in modernist terms and the context of very recent history, is beyond what came before, and is already happening.
