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Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street (1928) by John Sloan

-Sherwood Anderson, November 1929 “I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than bodies of men…It blew ideas away.”

 World War I ( )  Stock Market Crash (1929) and The Great Depression  Women’s Right to Vote (1920)  The Roaring Twenties ◦ “Jazz Age” ◦ Prohibition  The Harlem Renaissance

 Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form ◦ Represents the fragmentation of society  Rejection of traditional themes and values ◦ Conservative nature of Realism  Rejection of the ideal of a hero as infallible a hero who is flawed and disillusioned ◦ Shows “Grace under pressure”  Interest in inner workings of human mind ◦ Stream of Consciousness ◦ Freud and psychoanalysis  Loss of optimism Elements of Literature, 6 th ed. p. 533

Guernica (1937) Pablo Picaso

Flappers, 1920 source Modernist Fashions