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MODERNISM (1890’s-1940’s)

MODERNISM (1890’s-1940’s). Causes of the Modernist Temper. Advance , c . 1940 by José Clemente Orozco. The World Wars. The Eternal Soldier, c . 1940 by Wilhelm Sauter. Modernist Literary Period. World War I. Night, by Max Beckmann. Urbanization/Industrialization. Immigration.

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MODERNISM (1890’s-1940’s)

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  1. MODERNISM(1890’s-1940’s)

  2. Causes of the Modernist Temper Advance, c. 1940 by José Clemente Orozco

  3. The World Wars The Eternal Soldier, c. 1940 by Wilhelm Sauter

  4. Modernist Literary Period

  5. World War I Night, by Max Beckmann

  6. Urbanization/Industrialization

  7. Immigration

  8. Science/Technology

  9. SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939) Sigmund Freud, c. 1980 by Andy Warhol

  10. KARL MARX (1818-1883) TIME Magazine cover February 23, 1948

  11. INFLUENCES OF FREUD AND MARX • Modernist writers concerned themselves with the inner being more than the social being and looked for ways to incorporate these new views into their writing. • Modernist writers looked inside themselves for their answers instead of seeking truth, for example, through formal religion or the scientific presuppositions that realism and naturalism rested upon. • Marxism instructed even non-Marxist artists that the individual was being lost in a mass society. • Although Marx provided an analysis of human behavior opposed to Freud’s, both seemed to espouse a kind of determinism that, although counter to long-standing American beliefs in free will and free choice, also seemed better able to explain the terrible things that were happening in the twentieth century. • Some modern writers believed that art should celebrate the working classes, attack capitalism, and forward revolutionary goals, while others believed that literature should be independent and non-political.

  12. SHIFTS IN THE MODERN NATION Alpha Girl by OwaikeO

  13. 1920s: THE JAZZ AGE

  14. 1930s: THE DEPRESSION This sculpture at the FDR Memorial in Washington depicts men waiting in a Great Depression bread line.

  15. THE SPIRIT OF MODERNIST LITERATURE

  16. CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERNIST WRITING Foothold on a Pinnacle by Lynne Taetzsch

  17. TECHNIQUES IN MODERNIST WORKS • Collapsed plots • Fragmentary techniques • Shifts in perspective, voice, and tone • Stream-of-consciousness point of view • Associative techniques

  18. COLLAPSED PLOTS Collapsed Art, c. February 10, 2007 Kennesaw State University

  19. FRAGMENTARY TECHNIQUES

  20. SHIFTS IN PERSPECTIVE, VOICE, AND TONE

  21. STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS

  22. ASSOCIATIVE TECHNIQUES

  23. IMAGISM The imagists aimed to strip away poetry’s tendency toward dense wordiness and sentimentality and to crystallize poetic meaning in clear, neatly juxtaposed images.

  24. MODERNISM INCLUDES OTHER “ISMS” • Fauvism • Cubism • Dadaism • Expressionism • Surrealism • Symbolism

  25. FAUVISM Woman with a Hat, c. 1905 by Henri Matisse

  26. CUBISM Woman with a Guitar, c. 1913 by Georges Braque

  27. DADAISM Nude Descending a Staircase, by Marcel Duchamp

  28. EXPRESSIONISM The Scream c. 1893 byEdvard Munch

  29. SURREALISM The Persistence of Memoryc. 1931 by Salvador Dali

  30. POSTMODERNISM(1940s-Now)

  31. Central Concepts

  32. Individual Choice

  33. Philosophy of Postmodernism Cidsoe

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