History
American Modernism was influenced by this war.
What is World War I?
Belief that poetry is most profoundly expressed through the "rendering of concrete objects" which re-create an image - not to comment on it but just represent it.
What is Imagism?
This is the direct result of Modernist views.
What is "The Roaring Twenties"?
Jazz and Classical are examples.
What are genres of music during the Modernist Era?
This describes a series of reforming cultural movements in art, architecture, music, literature, and the applied arts.
What is Modernism?
A movement in which the poet lets an item he/she renders speak for itself in order to experience the homely simplicity of an object for no other reason than to understand its "this-ness."
What is Objectivism?
A movement that continued throughout the 1920s when millions of black farmers and sharecroppers moved to the urban North in search of opportunity and freedom from oppression.
What is the Great Migration?
Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Metaphysical painting, De Stijl, Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Op art, Minimalism, and Neo-Expressionism.
These modern movements include
Modernism emerged during this period, when disillusioned Americans sought the pleasures of entertainment due to a booming economy.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
Expression used by Gertrude Stein when describing the young American writers who composed fragmented short stories without traditional beginnings or endings.
What is "the lost generation"?
"free-flowing" jazz music, "abstract" art, and "deep metaphorical" literature moved from this movement to this movement.
What is realism to modernism?
has the ability to change and shape lives through its personal connection to us all
Fashion
The passage of this law in 1920 finally gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This focused on making life more easier and more enjoyable.
What is American Modernism?
This focused on making life more easier and more enjoyable.
What is American Modernism?
from paris france) , who, beginning in the 1860s, not only depicted scenes of modern life but also broke with tradition when he made no attempt to mimic the real world by way of perspective and modeling
Édouard Manet
This discovery offered the notion that there are no absolutes, offering writers a fresh new way of looking at the world.
What is Einstein's theory of relativity?
Considered the most representative and influential of modernist poems.
What is "The Waste Land"?
Founded by W. E. B. Du Bois.
Who founded the NAACP?
1920-30s dance
the charleston , the lindy hop , the jumpin jive , the jitterbug , foxtrot , tango