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Theory Map # 2 New Directions 1910 - 1930 Rodrigo Paz IV B # 18 -…
Theory Map # 2
New Directions
1910 - 1930
Rodrigo Paz IV B # 18
Timeline
Some important events were
1913 - Henry Ford pioneers assembly line, producing 1000 Model T automobiles a day
1910 - First electric washing machines introduced
1917 - U.S. declares war on Germany
1920 - Woman gain right to vote
1923 - Time magazine first published
1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby"
1930 - Sinclair Lewis first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature
1920 - Beginning of the Prohibition Era
1918 - U.S, Population = 103.5 million
1911 - Pulitzer Prizes established
The Era of Modernism
its context is
People could travel faster
Knowledge was available to everyone
People was aware of the lives of others
The new knowledge was exciting but conflicting
A strong awareness arose that wanted to break with the past
Artists wanted to capture the complexity of modern life
Also known as
The Era of the New
Some art movements were
Imagism
Cubism
Dadaism
Vorticism
The Lost Generation
Fundamental events were
World War I
Spanish-American War
Opening of the Panama Canal
Characteristics
Immigrants brought new ideas to America
Improvements in communication and transportation
American artists were able to share views and ideas
European and American artistic communities drew closer
War was considered
A failure of old politics, values and ideas
Prohibition was
A ban against alcoholic beverages
In the Jazz Age
New Orleans musicians move to Chicago
Modernist Literature
Purpose
Break with the style, form, and content of the XIX Century
Characteristics
Interest in the human mind
Modernists wrote in new forms and styles
Poetry discards meter and rhyme and starts using free verse
Is fragmentary because
Reflects "Stream of Consciousness"
Reflects the jumble of conflicting ideas
Readers draw own conclusions
Abstract ideas or emotions are avoided
Shows rather than tells
Its puzzling
The Modernist Achievement
Characteristics
Search of a new art
Generated new styles
Old elements were studied, and is they could be used
Used the past to create a new relationship with the world
Authors
Pound demostrated the value of ancient Chinese Literature
Eliot used used the tradition of English Metaphysical poets
Some important authors were
Ezra Pound
F. Scott Fitzgerald
T.S. Eliot
E.E. Cummings
James Joyce
Edna St. Vincent