Modern Art and Artists
This style of architecture arose in Germany, and featured boxy, unadorned buildings.
What is Bauhaus?
This narrative method attempts to portray one's inner thoughts in the manner in which one thinks.
What is stream of consciousness?
This woman's 1929 novella dealt with the complicated process of Blacks "passing" in white society.
Who is Nella Larsen?
This city had the opportunity to build a modernist city when most of the old city was destroyed in 1871.
What is Chicago?
This poet eschewed capitalized letters and normal syntax.
Who is e.e. cummings?
This surrealist film was the brainchild of Luis Brunel and Salvador Dali.
What is Un Chien Andalou?
In modernist poetry, rhyme schemes are frequently ditched in favor of this form.
What is free verse?
This surrealist writer and painter spent time in mental institutions, but later became an active member of the Mexican Feminist movement.
Who is Leonora Carrington?
This nation provided a home for many surrealists, both native and expatriate, in the 1940s and 1950s.
What is Mexico?
In contrast to most American Modernists' clear and descriptive methods and topics, this poet dealt with deeper philosophical ideas in long, sometimes complicated poems.
Who is Wallace Stevens?
This artist was born in Russia, died in France, and spent a great deal of time, especially as a member of the Bauhaus, in Germany.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
In a manifestation of Einstein's ideas of relativity, this method is frequently employed in modernist texts.
What are multiple points of view?
The writer's modernist work reflected her own experiences as a woman who was forced to rely on male lovers for support.
Who is Jean Rhys?
This word characterizes many of our modernists, who were "at home anywhere in the world" but did not have a home anywhere in the world.
What is cosmopolitan?
Many Modernist poets were first published in this magazine, published in Chicago.
What is Poetry magazine?
This artist, in addition to promoting Vorticism, painted portraits of several important modernists, including Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.
Who is Wyndham Lewis?
While most Modernist poets lived out the command to "make it new," many also reworked myths, especially from this era and place.
What is ancient Greece?
This woman entertained all the wives of artists and writers while her more famous "husband" talked about art and literature in her salon.
Who is Alice B. Toklas?
This city was the center of German Expressionist Cinema.
What is Berlin, Germany?
This poet, who was not associated with any of the modernist movements in poetry, wrote his poetry in Greek.
Who was C.P. Cavafy?
This surrealist was the lover of Leonora Carrington, but dumped her to marry Peggy Guggenheim, who had saved him from German imprisonment.
Who is Max Ernst?
This English heiress of an ocean liner empire, spent a great deal of her time and money promoting Black musicians and writers.
Who is Nancy Cunard?
This New York neighborhood was home to the poet e.e. cummings and his grouchy neighbor, D'juna Barnes.
What is Greenwich Village?
This poet penned an apocalyptic analysis of the Great War that referenced a rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem.
Who is W.B. Yeats?