What is Modernist Fragmentation? (Modernism 4)

The First World War shattered the world into a thousand pieces. Consequently art, literature, and music began to use fragmentation to reflect the fractures that were occurring in the fabric of society. Cubists used fragmented images, writers used fragmented time, structure, and characters, and composers fragmented melodies and scales. Fragmentation is one of the main forms taken by what we now call modernism.

I made this video before Oppenheimer came out, but that that film is an excellent example of nonlinear time.

00:00 - introduction
01:13 - collage
02:32 - cubism: Duchamp
03:41 - cubism: Picasso
05:07 - fragmented time in literature
08:25 - The Waste Land
10:00 - fragmented characters
11:06 - multiple first-person narrators
11:55 - fractured hierarchies
12:21 - music: Schoenberg
13:19 - music: bebop
13:51 - conclusion

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