THE RISE OF NEOCLASSICISM The origins of Neoclassicism in art, architecture and interior décor was the excavation of long buried Roman cities, Pompeii and Herculaneum in the mid-eighteenth century. A popular correction of the late Baroque style and the ornamental...
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AGE OF REASON, PART TWO The Enlightenment is also referred to as The Age of Reason, a time period that stems from the awakening of European interest in science in the seventeenth century and ends with the unreason of the French Revolution at the end...
INTRODUCTION TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT A Question of Philosophy Like any great cultural change, the Enlightenment was long in gestation, but its range was short. The Enlightenment, a revolution in philosophy, was strictly a Western phenomenon, linked to Modernism in the...
DEFINING MODERN “Modern” is a Western and European concept and is, in effect, Eurocentric, impacting a limited part of the world. But these changes were profound and shaped the rest of the globe. Driven by technological innovations, the economy evolved...
DEFINING MODERN CULTURE What is Modern? Where is Modern? The term “modern” has been tossed around like a beach ball with the assumption that the word is understood in a global or universal sense. But “Modern” is essentially a Western concept, based upon...
