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New Directions (1910-1930)
The Era of Modernism
This era took place between 1910-1930.
Took place in America and in Europe.
Movements in art:
Imagism
Cubism
Dadaism
Vorticism
The Era of Modernism was the era of the New.
The Lost Generation
American Writters:
Lived in Europe
Ezra Pound
Robert Frost
Gertrude Stein
Langston Hughes (poet)
Eugene O'Neill
American writers visited Europe during and after the war.
World War I was a important part of the early 20th century.
Was the Jazz Age.
Modernist Literature
Modernist took risks when they wrote.
It was often experimental in form of the content.
Discard the 19th century literature traditions.
Authors
E. E. Cummings
William Carlos Williams
James Joyce
Gertrude Stein
The Modernists Achievement
They accomplished the introduction to the new art.
They left the old forms asside, created new ones.
Studied the elements of the past.
Modernist achievement:
Poetry
Fiction
Drama
Music and Paintings
Arquitecture
Time Line
First electric washing machines 1910
Grtrude Stein, Tender Buttons 1914
Robert Frost, North of Boston 1914
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems 1916
US declares war to Germany 1917
Willa Cather, My Antonia 1918
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio 1919
E. E. Cummings, tulips and chimneys 1923
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises 1926
Grant Wood paints American Gothic 1930