What is the main content of Kalinescu s Five Faces of Modernity .

Introduction] This book analyzes the five basic concepts of modernity from an aesthetic perspective: modernism, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch art, and postmodernism; Its evolution and current situation are discussed in detail, and rich examples are cited. The author also proposes that aesthetic modernity should be understood as a crisis concept that encompasses a triple dialectical opposition:

i.e. antithesis to tradition; antithesis of bourgeois civilization to modernity; as opposed to aesthetic modernity itself.

Table of Contents] Preface to the Chinese translation.

Preface to the second edition.

Acknowledgement. Introduction.

The concept of modernity.

A modern gnome on the shoulders of an ancient giant.

A Matter of Time: Three Epochs of Western History.

We are the ancients.

Compare modern and ancient people.

From modern to gothic to romantic to modern.

Modernity, the death of God, and utopia.

Literature and other modernisms.

Compare modern and contemporary.

The concept of avant-garde.

From modernity to avant-garde.

The Renaissance "avant-garde" metaphor: a figure of speech.

Romantic "avant-garde" : from politics to cultural politics.

Some mid-nineteenth-century writers and avant-garde.

Two kinds of avant-garde: gravity and repulsion.

The crisis of the concept of the avant-garde in the sixties of the twentieth century.

The author of this book does not understand modernity in the slightest and does not have any reading value.

I'm smart, but it's really hard for me to say that.

A kind of painting art in Europe in the 20th century, which uses symbolism, deformation and abstract artistic expressions to express the artist's views on life and society.

Contemporary Art and Curatorial Studies, the content of the examination not only involves the four designated books, which is a major on the one side of art theory, and the content of the examination will infiltrate the relevant professional content, such as: Chinese art history, foreign art history, curatorial manual, introduction to art management, introduction to archaeology, and a series of books on art theory; I don't know how to paint, but I am a professional in my major.

The first and second majors will be art theory, which will require open-mindedness, a wide range and flexible application. It's definitely not just about memorizing four books. Seeing the tutor is only waiting for you to get the qualification for the re-examination, but if you don't take the first test, the tutor will not ask you.

Unless your relationship is very hard, you will directly ask for the guaranteed place, and you don't even have to take the test, book? Not to mention. It's still a foreign school, and only if it's the strongest of the strong, there will be hope.

Best of luck.

Contemporary art and curatorial studies are a major that involves a lot of knowledge in art, and as a good curator, it also requires strong comprehensive quality and ability, application ability, of course, the most basic is art theory, the theory must be rich, but also to be integrated, China's art theory career can be said to be just starting, is gradually improving.

For the postgraduate courses of GOME, the "Chinese and Foreign Art History" and "Art Theory and Cultural Studies" you mentioned are only the general direction, and it is not only about these tests, but also about reading more books on art theory, such as Introduction to Art Management, Introduction to Archaeology, and Museum Manuals. To increase one's knowledge, it is not to memorize, but to understand, become one's own thoughts, and then apply them.

Textbooks? Chinese and foreign art history: Isn't it the history of Chinese art and foreign art? There are a lot of art theories, this is the comprehensive quality, in short, take a look at art theory, the ones mentioned above for you are a few courses we have studied.

The teachers of Gome are very good, they are all top-level figures, of course the threshold will not be low, and if they do not reach that level, they are not qualified to say that the level of Gome is high. In short, it is a harvest of hard work

I wish you success in your graduate school entrance examination.

1. Visual Culture Research Reader, edited by Chen Yongguo, Peking University Press, 2009. 2. Mythological Rhetoric: Criticism and Truth, by Roland Barthes, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2009. 3. Five Faces of Modernity, by Matei Kalinescu, The Commercial Press, 2002.

4. "Wenxin Carving Dragon Proofreading", by Liu Yongji, Zhonghua Book Company, 2010 edition.

For the postgraduate entrance examination, you must choose three doctors to take the postgraduate examination one-on-one class.

Dude, what do you want to ask, your question is like asking What's the difference between taking a shower and going to work?

The May Fourth period pioneered two prose traditions, argumentative prose and lyrical prose.

In the modern prose creation since the May Fourth Movement, the earliest one that originated and developed was the argumentative prose. Due to the ideological enlightenment movement against feudalism at that time, this kind of reasoning was particularly developed, and in addition to a lot of political and social **, there were also some literary ** words.

Lyrical prose was often referred to as "beautiful prose" during the May Fourth period, and its emergence and growth were of great significance for the defense and prosperity of new literary creation. It proves that "the demonstration of the old literature is showing that the old literature thinks that it is an elder, and the vernacular literature is not impossible" (Lu Xun, "The Crisis of Essays"). It appeared a little later than the essay, but it gained much development later.