Fragmentation
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| + | "If one accepts fragmentation as a basic feature of [[postmodernism]], one has to conclude that this fragmentation was already a feature of [[modernism]]." --[[Sholem Stein]] | ||
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| - | :If one accepts fragmentation as a basic feature of [[postmodernism]], one has to conclude that this fragmentation was already a feature of [[modernism]]. | ||
| - | :"Dissolution, fragmentation. simultaneity, decomposition -- these are words in the service not of obfuscation but of clarification. They denote not escape from reality, but a more fundamental analysis by a dissection of its ever growing complexity. "The art of our century," says Katherine Kuh, "has been characterized by shattered surfaces, broken color, segmented compositions, dissolving forms and shredded images. During the last hundred years, every aspect of art has been broken up -- color, light, pigment, form, line, content, space, surface, and design." ([[Katherine Kuh]], "Break-Up", 1965) From the fragmentation of color by the impressionists to the broken distortions of the expressionists, from the segmentation of surfaces and planes by the cubists to the surrealists' destruction of space and time, from the abstract expressionists' attack on form and pigment to the dadaist- pop subversion of art and the conceptualists' reduction to structure and non-meaning, the "break-up" of form and content in modern art is complete." -- Amos Vogel in ''[[Film as a Subversive Art]]'' (1974) | + | In [[literature]], [[fragmentation]] is a broad term for [[literary technique]]s that [[break]] up the text or narrative. Fragmentation is characteristic of postmodernism. Related techniques are [[collage]] and [[nonlinear]] narrative. |
| - | In literature, fragmentation is a broad term for literary techniques that break up the text or narrative. Fragmentation is characteristic of postmodernism. Related techniques are collage and nonlinear narrative. | + | == See also == |
| - | == Mini-essay == | + | *[[Amos Vogel on fragmentation]] |
| - | [[Cinematic time|cinematic time and fragmentation]] | + | *[[Experiments with cinematic time|Cinematic time and fragmentation]] |
| + | *[[Fragmentation (sociology)]] | ||
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In literature, fragmentation is a broad term for literary techniques that break up the text or narrative. Fragmentation is characteristic of postmodernism. Related techniques are collage and nonlinear narrative.
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