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| - | "[[Make it new]]" was the [[modernist]] [[credo]] of the poet [[Ezra Pound]]. | + | "'''Make it new'''" is the [[modernist credo]] of the poet [[Ezra Pound]]. |
| - | In general, the term [[Modernism]] encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political conditions of an emerging fully [[industrialized]] world. The poet [[Ezra Pound]]'s 1934 injunction to "[[Make it new!]]" was paradigmatic of the movement's approach towards the obsolete. Another paradigmatic exhortation was articulated by philosopher and composer [[Theodor Adorno]], who, in the 1940s, challenged conventional surface coherence, and appearance of harmony typical of the rationality of Enlightenment thinking. A salient characteristic of Modernism is [[self-consciousness]]. This self-consciousness often led to experiments with form and work that draws attention to the processes and materials used (and to the further tendency of abstraction). | + | It is [[paradigm]]atic of [[modernism]]'s approach towards the [[obsolete]]. |
| + | It is from Pound’s 1928 translation of the [[Great Learning]], a central [[Confucian]] text | ||
| + | :In letters of gold on T’ang’s bathtub: | ||
| + | :AS THE SUN MAKES IT NEW | ||
| + | :DAY BY DAY MAKE IT NEW | ||
| + | :YET AGAIN MAKE IT NEW. | ||
| + | :It is said in the K’ang Proclamation | ||
| + | :He is risen, renewing the people. | ||
| + | :The Odes say: | ||
| + | :Although Chou was an ancient kingdom | ||
| + | :The celestial destiny | ||
| + | :Came again down on it NEW | ||
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| + | '''''Make it New!''''' It is also the title of a 1934 essay collection which includes essays about medieval troubadours, Elizabethan classicists, translators of Greek and 19th century French poets. | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Motto]] | ||
| + | *[[Great Learning]] | ||
| + | *[[Neophilia]] | ||
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"Make it new" is the modernist credo of the poet Ezra Pound.
It is paradigmatic of modernism's approach towards the obsolete.
It is from Pound’s 1928 translation of the Great Learning, a central Confucian text
- In letters of gold on T’ang’s bathtub:
- AS THE SUN MAKES IT NEW
- DAY BY DAY MAKE IT NEW
- YET AGAIN MAKE IT NEW.
- It is said in the K’ang Proclamation
- He is risen, renewing the people.
- The Odes say:
- Although Chou was an ancient kingdom
- The celestial destiny
- Came again down on it NEW
Make it New! It is also the title of a 1934 essay collection which includes essays about medieval troubadours, Elizabethan classicists, translators of Greek and 19th century French poets.
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