Modernity

The PL talks about looking as being multisensory because while we are viewing an object we are still responding to our surroundings through the other four senses. These stimuli may effect how we perceive the subject.


Modernity in visual arts and culture is seen as a product resulting from the "transition from old to new". According to Jurgen Habermas, modernity models itself on a past era that is seen as classical or timeless and embodies those same principles.

The Enlightenment period was a time of focus on "achieving moral and social betterment through scientific progress." Science was reflected in the culture and the arts and the movement concentrated on the future rather than the past. This is different from the modern movement when the population was relocating from the rural to the cities and the belief was in change for the better and hope for a more advanced future.