Art history q: was rise of impressionism related to the general sense of time speeding up so you had to capture fleeting impressions?
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i don't know about time speeding up (straight-up modernism deals more w/ effects of eg industrial rev). but it was a break with historicism.
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def not qualified to fully answer this, but: it was representative of rising interest in the present over the past, in general.
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Manet etc were what.... 1860s? Contemporaneous with railroad boom which was I think bigger acceleration spectacle than Internet today
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no yeah it's definitely relevant. it's more that (correctly or not) i think of modernism as having to do with "everything happening at once"
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