1. Unit 6
Boom and Bust

2. Cultural Innovations Chapter 17 Section 4
The Jazz Age

3. Art and Literature Modern American Art
John Marin – nature and urban areas
Charles Scheeler – applied the use of photography and geometric forms of cubism to urban and rural landscapes
Edward Hopper – realism
Georgia O’Keeffe’s – landscape and flowers

4. John Marin

5. Charles Scheeler

6. Edward Hopper

7. Georgia O’Keeffe

8. Poets and Writers Carl Sandburg Willa Cather
Used common speech to glorify the Midwest
Willa Cather
Wrote about life on the Great Plains
Many poets used clear and concise meaning to express moments in time

9. Poets and Writers “Lost Generation”
Wrote about the disillusionment of World War I
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Sinclair Lewis
Wrote about small town life
Edith Wharton
Criticized upper class ignorance

11. Popular Culture Movies and Radio Shows
Before sound theaters hired piano players to provide music
The Jazz Singer – first talking picture
Mass Media
Radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad audience

13. Popular Culture Sports Baseball and Boxing College Football
Babe Ruth
Jack Dempsey – heavyweight champion from
College Football
Red Grange – “Galloping Ghost”
Golf and Tennis
Bobby Jones – won the US Open and the British Open in the same year
Bill Tilden
Swimming
Gertrude Ederle – Swam the English Channel in 14 hours in 1927