source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 20:31:40 -0800 Subject: Re: Message from Internet From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> Brian's mention of Modernism makes me think of a question about the arts in general: Is this the first time in history when we've managed to progress past the current "modern" era into something recognizably different ("post-modern") without ever coming up with a name for the "modern" era? The theory behind this question of course is the ... abstraction at least ... that every era - Baroque, Classical, whatever - was viewed as modern until they thought up another word for it. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 06:44 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA08600; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 20:44:38 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 20:44:38 -0800 Message-Id: <199511070443.XAA05940@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu