"For all that was being gained, there was a sense that life was losing a depth, a dimension of freedom, and that human beings were becoming imprisoned in what the German sociologist Max Weber saw as the 'iron cage' of modernity' (p126) Harrison, G. and Wood, P. (eds) (1997) : Art in Theory: 1900-1990, Oxford, Blackwell
The statement above made by Max Weber is reflecting on the technological advances in industry and the modernization of human life. Although some thought these advances would bring prosperity to all, some thought this would deepen the divide between the rich and the poor. If man were replaced by machine that something deeper, far more valuable would be lost- the ‘iron cage’ of modernity.
Modernism in art reflects on this experience. Social and cultural highs and lows, freedoms, controls, alienation man becoming a slave to the machines rather than the machines being there to improve the life’s of many, creating a larger class divide.
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