Hi all! Thanks for watching, I hope you found the useful enlightening in some small way! If you'd like me to make more videos like this, and to influence which topics I cover next, then I've just launched a Patreon. I'd love it if you'd pop over and check it out and, if you're able, to consider supporting my channel. Thanks! Tom. www.patreon.com/tomnicholas

@mitzyfrankz

4 жыл бұрын

Dude. I found it to be THE SHIT. PLEASE do one of the very understated Arthur Rimbaud!!!!

@user-db5tj3qu4v

3 жыл бұрын

How are you prince can you answer me the question discuss the origion and development of modrenism how is it represented inthe 20c.british novel explain briefly with examples

@soumiahadef8968

7 ай бұрын

Can you please tell me what program you use to make your videos?

You just saved someone from South Africa who lost her notes and is writing an art history exam.

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, no worries, bet of luck with the exam!!

@rhysherbst1946

4 жыл бұрын

I’m Zimbabwean 🇿🇼

@nokutenda4081

4 жыл бұрын

@@rhysherbst1946 Wabvunzwa 😂

@DonnaSnyder

3 жыл бұрын

So glad for you. I trust you excelled.

@nkanyezihlatshwayo3601

3 жыл бұрын

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I don't think I have written an essay for college without watching one of your videos. Thank you for helping me pass my assignments!!

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad my videos have been helpful but I'm sure that you passing was all you! Hope they went well!

wow, a genuinely enjoyable human being who's educated on my academic topics and good at/kind with educating others! I wish I went to college with more people like you. seems like no one (that I end up conversing with in my classes) wants to absorb knowledge anymore, and anyone who gets as passionate as you is too quiet for me to know of them lmao so thank you

This is so great! Even though I have had many lectures about modernism in university, you were the first person to clearly state that the modernist artists believed they were making works that were fundamentally better than what came before. The example of the manifestos is great to illustrate that as well. Thank you!

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

So glad you found this helpful. I’ve found similarly that the general stuff which connects them often gets overlooked. Once I’d drawn this connection, I definitely found it so much easier to understand different movements within Modernism!

I hope this helps some of you out who might be struggling with understanding modernism! There's a little bit of further reading in the description and, as always, any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them down here in the comments!

@macarenaalvarezvalenzuela4561

6 жыл бұрын

thank you very much from Chile!

@Tom_Nicholas

6 жыл бұрын

No worries, cheers for watching!

@2adamast

2 жыл бұрын

I still strugle. Guernica 3:58 : A pastiche of a Rubens painting (1629) represents Modernism. Where Modernism is defined here as: _Rejecting the artistic forms and ideas that came before them_ 5:45 What to say? Sometimes academic consensus feels empty. There is Picasso commenting about Lascaux (120+ century bce) _Nous n'avons rien appris_

Thought he said he was a "Peachy D student"

@Dovith

3 жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

I love this. Although the title says "An Introduction," it pretty much summarized the most important aspects of the movement. Thanks so much.

Just discovered you're channel I genuinly think you are one of the best ones we can find online as students. My essay on modernism will be much more simple thanks to you. Thank you a lot !

As a French student in English studies, this video was highly informative, and I was acquainted with many elements of knowledge !! You've just gained a new subscriber !

lucid, crisp and explained with the help of relatively easy-to-understand examples! great job, Tom!!

Tom, you’re my new hero; I just aced my oral exam on architectural theory and I’m pretty sure your videos on WTF played a big part in that. So THANK YOU! If you’re wondering what I’m gonna do with all my free time from now on: binging your politix series...

This really helped me in my literature test about modernism, thank you for the clear explanation.

Thanks, Tom! I used this video to help teach my high school English students about Modernism as a movement before reading Kafka's Metamorphosis. Great video!

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Katherine, it's always really nice to hear when teachers are using my videos! Hope your students are finding it useful and that they enjoy the book!

TOM. You are single handedly saving me and my degree 😂 thank you so much, please don’t stop what you’re doing, you’re amazing it at! 😁👍🔥💃🦷

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, I'm sure that's not the case Emma and that it's you "saving" your degree off your own back but, don't worry, I'll keep making videos!

Tom, outstanding, interesting and brilliant presentation. Keep up the good work. The world needs your bright insight!

Love how you explain things so simply! Thanks for these videos, I look forward to your video on postmodernism!

@Tom_Nicholas

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, awesome, I'm glad I managed to keep it simple, sometimes it's a hard balance to strike ensuring that they both dig into the theory while also remaining accessible! Thanks for watching!

super helpful for starting my second year in English! thank you so much!

This video helped me a lot last semester on my 21st Century Literature class. Now I have Contemporary Arts and all the things I've learned from this video just came back to me. I just wanted to say thank you for this!

Wow, this was incredibly well articulated! Thank you for your content.

Your explanations are so clear!! It helped me a lot understanding the whole modernism thing.

That was brilliantly stated! I understand it now! Seriously, I was having a really hard time figuring it out and your video demystified it. Totally get it now, thank you!

Thank you, really useful video for my art history exam. You have a very pleasant voice to listen to!

It is an awesome video. It's very helpful, clear and precise. I really enjoyed the video. Well done 👏

Great video, love the expertise and the accessible style

this is a great video. Well edited and easy to listen to. hope your channel gets some more attention!

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh, thanks for saying so Luke! Really glad you got something out of it!

I finally understood what was dragged on for months in classes. Thank you :)

Thanks for the video mate, racking my head thinking about this modernism stuff. This helped a lot.

Thank God, I found you. Your explanation is really simple and easy to digest. It does motivate me to do further reading. The negative side is, why I just found you today? It's kinda close to my paper's due date...

could not have been better explained in such a short time... Thank you very much, this has been very helpful...

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying so, really glad you found it helpful!

Doing the English State teacher licensure here in Argentina. Thanks a lot, you have a perfect way of summarizing ideas.

Thank you for this video. I'm studying English Literature as one of my A-Levels at this point in time and we have to learn about this and postmodernism for the context for the unseen prose section in our unseen exam.

Thanks for this video! For me as an "amateur" in arts this was very helpful!

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Really glad you found it helpful!

That was really helpful .. thanks a lot ... I just would like to ask if it's possible to make a video about the literary theory and literary criticism.. and the difference between them

ABSOLUTE Sub. Well done, keep doing what you're doing. I plan on rewatching this to help it sink in. Excited about the Pomo vid coming soon. Especially with the political climate on youtube right now surrounding postmodernism. (excellent blending of art and socio- political currents in this video !!)

@Tom_Nicholas

6 жыл бұрын

Ah cheers! Should be the next thing I put out now. Hoping to balance it well to slightly address some of that while also being accessible to peeps not completely down the KZread political rabbit hole just yet. Although, very keen to debunk this whole THE EVIL POSTMODERNISTS thing which, like, doesn’t even make sense...

Thanks, man!! Was of great help!!

You do really excellent content, and your descriptions of these elements of philosophy are actually imo better than Oliver Thorn, for me at least. It's concise, succinct and eloquent without meandering too much. Of course Ollie does a more theatrical approach and he does great videos, but this is more like a university course in 20 mins. Well done

Thanks a lot for the video, i really liked it. I have a question and i hope you are going to answer me. How can we associate the telephone to modernism? It is the theme of my presentation.

Very intresting video! Where did you find the video of T.S. Eliot reading Four Quartets?

very helpful! cheers mate! I just have a few questions: 1. is it possible to date modernism to a specific time period since as you mentioned it's kinda like a mesh of multi-movements and time periods from late 19th century to early 20th century. 2. is there a face of modernism movement? no one particular artist is responsible for this social change, yet who do you find to be the most influential of this time frame / movement and why? which art piece? 3. do you have a favourite artist from this time? thanks again! - Zoe

Hey Tom! It is very interesting that you pointed out a strive for utopianism and departure from tradition in the visual arts and in politics, which is also true in architecture. Do you happen to know what propelled such drastic change across multiple disciplines during that period, can it really be completely attributed to the Industrial Revolution?

Thank you. This was a useful introduction to the subject for my students.

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

No problems, glad you found it useful!

Complex content communicated in a very informative and interesting way.

Great as always - thank you!!

@Tom_Nicholas

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying so!

This is really helpful thank you so much !!!

nicely done.responded to the sincerity of the" new broom".

Thanks for this video. Certainly harder to see the commonality between the spectrum of art that is under the umbrella of modernism. I think the way of thinking is key here; however the styles very, the intent of questioning what came before, the influence of the world wars and a depression all have a part in that. I've heard that the questioning, the tearing down of what came before, stems from a sense of questioning the inner self, the uncertainty that resulted from multiple upheavals. It looks inward at the emotions, the underlying aspect rather than the act of representation. I used to wonder why the modernist era threw away craft and skill and thought some of them were simply too lazy or were compensating for poor skills, but no, they were trying to convey in their art things that were deeper, and more abstract, and find new ways of seeing. So many ways they did that.

Just found your videos. They're great!! Thank you :)

@Tom_Nicholas

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, thanks for saying so Armando!

It is a cultural movement that contains multiple art and literary movements within it.

This video is so helpful , thanks a bunch

GREAT STUFF mate.

Super helpful! Thank you

Tom here single handled saving my life here as my essay is due tomorrow. Thank you Tom, you are amazing For all my fellow students, don’t forget to drink water and to stretch every so often.

Awesome man, really helpful!

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

No worries, glad it was handy!

Thank you, Tim

This is great! You've just earned a new subscriber

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rahma, hope you enjoy the rest of the videos!

Thanks for your insight. Very helpful.

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dennis!

Thank you this is really useful!

It's so interesting to me that all of these different people in different cultural spheres all thought there could be objectively correct answers to anything, when I, someone growing up as a teenager now, believe the opposite. I think the natural successor to a generation so certain about objective truth is a generation who questions the very existence of, and the possibility that there could be an objective truth. Great video

Thanks for teaching me things my teacher should have.

Thank you for this very beneficial video

Great video thank you ❤

Tom, you're awesome 👌🏽

So informative!

What I've always wondered about is something like Duchamps Fountain, that seems much more post-modern to me. I know Dada came about in the modernist time period and was pretty directly tied to other modernist styles like futurism and all that, but in terms of its sensibilities Dada always comes across as much more post-modern with its sense of irony and downplaying of the importance of the artist in the creative process.

thank you!!! great vid

Hi Tom, I appreciate your efforts.. your videos were of a great help for me (as a beginner cultural studies student). can you please do a video on deconstruction? + Any suggested introductory books about postmodernism?.. Thanks a lot

@Tom_Nicholas

6 жыл бұрын

Abdessamia Bencheikh Hey Abdessamia, thanks for the feedback, so glad you’re finding them helpful! There’s definitely one on deconstruction planned for the not too distant future. Might be a month or two though as they do take a little while to put together! I’ll have to do some reading up too as it’s not something I’ve had to use or talk about for a little while now!

@Tom_Nicholas

6 жыл бұрын

Deconstruction is on my list. No particular suggestions for books but, generally, I find the Oxford Very Short Introductions great, or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is pretty good. 🙂

@Abdessamia

6 жыл бұрын

oh.. thank you again. waiting for your next (y)

Great video!

Thank you T.Nicholas

Absolutely fantastic!! I would love to see a video on your analysis of Jordan Peterson. I think that your videos are every bit as interesting as his. It seems to me that the two of you are really going to string the intellectual world between you. Absolutely fantastic insights!!

I love your works

this guy's video out here saving our GPAs

such great video thanks

Great Video!

This video is really helpful. Can you do one on the feminist movements across the cultures and eras? Explain different waves and reasons for emergence. It will really help Thanks!!

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Ha, someone else just asked for pretty much exactly the same video. I like the idea of this so I'll see what I can come up with!

I’m still waiting on the literary part😞💔

Will you do a video on Victorian Literature?

Hey- what are some ideal books that discuss modernism in order to cover themes and be able to write an essay?

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

I haven't actually read this particular book, however, I'm really keen on the Oxford Very Short Introduction series. Christopher Butler has written one on Modernism which I'd suggest checking out. Other than that, I'd suggest tracking down a book which talks about Modernism within the particular artform that you're hoping to write about as this will give some specific examples of how Modernism impacted upon that form.

@villvin9157

5 жыл бұрын

"Modernism" by Chales Harrison. This might be a little late for your essay, but if anyone else is reading this :) it´s a short book!

That helps. Thanks man

Just wow 💕 we want modernism in literature please

THANK. YOU. SO. MUCH.

good work!

Make sure to do one on “metamodernism”

@Hakajin

3 жыл бұрын

Huh, looking it up... I'm not sure, but maybe that's what I am? My own position is that there's no such thing as "unreal." That is, the purely subjective is still its own objective existence. In fact, it's the ONLY objective reality we can be sure of. This involves a breaking down between binaries like nature/construction and fiction/fact. That is, we and the constructions we create are a part of nature, fiction is as much a part of our real lives as fact (which we can never be sure of in the first place, untrustworthy as perception and memory are).

Very helpful.

Are you going to make a video on postmodernism and post colonialism?

@Tom_Nicholas

6 жыл бұрын

Postmodernism should be my next What the Theory video so should be out in the next month or so! Also, postcolonialism is a great idea, I hadn't got that on my list but definately will add it!

@humairakarim9107

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Nicholas thank you ♡

Thank you!

Really helpful

Great video. Thanks

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for saying so Delphine, glad you found it interesting!

Great Sir

Thanks for the video. I was hoping some more depth about the ideological currents and basis of modernism. The video focused too much on art

Brilliant lecture.

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Ira!

great help, good vocabilary

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sonya, hope you found it helpful!

My friend, you gotta work on pronouncing Guernica lol (Gare-NEE-kah. -- stress is on the NEE) -- and thanks for the help! Just started grad school and Im taking a class on el Modernismo (modern Spanish literature)

Incredible video

@Tom_Nicholas

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ed, hope you found it interesting!

can anyone tell me how a video like this is made!

hello can i ask you please what is committed art

I fw you harry potter, you got me with the "lend me a subscribe"

informative and to the point especially when you watch it at 1.75x playback speed.

what's the book in 8:41 ?

Also for anyone who is interested in how modernism manifested in architecture, I made two videos on this topic!

@dazpatreg

3 жыл бұрын

You've a new subscriber

@EasyArchitecturalTheory

3 жыл бұрын

dazpatreg thank you for the support!