In order to understand the shift and the focus on the minimalist sensibility that defined the use of light, rather than structural complexity, it is imperative to consider the history of the 20th century as a theoretical background. ... The increasing postmodern sensibilities that also emerged in the later works of Libeskind were linked to an ideological culture and dissatisfaction with modernist forms. ... In essence, the shift away from a relatively stable artistic perspective towards a more interpretive and dynamic type of modernism is clearly a part of the progression of architectur...

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The challenging idea behind the Pop Art movement was so incredibly intriguing to me: It was a brash, young, fun, artistic sensibility and I instantly identified with it. ... "It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post-war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's" (Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture). ... They viewed the alluring imagery of American popular culture and its consumerist lifestyle with a sense of irony and a little bit of envy ("Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture.") ... To yank the American public back into reality, ...

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Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising sense of crisis, (Bradbury 13). ... There is the feeling that something will happen at any moment, this is underlined by Owen's use of ellipsis dots at the end of every sentence in Stanza one, which allude to a sense of anticipation and of something ready to come to a head at any moment. ...

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