1. Modernism

2. Do Now
Open your textbooks to 1007 and take out your notebooks and a pencil. Read the quote on page 1007 from Doris Lessing and respond to the following in your notebook:
Explain the quote in your own words. What do the quote and the title of this unit suggest about attitudes during this time period?

3. With a Partner…
Read the “Historical Background” on pages 1012 and 1013.
You must have at least 8 bullet points of important information in your notebooks (15 minutes).

4. Notes: Value Differences in the Modern World
Pre-Modernist World
Modern World (Early 20th Century)
Ordered: Faith in Leaders
Chaotic
Meaningful: God
Futile
Optimistic: Technology
Pessimistic
Stable: Gradual Change
Fluctuating: Sudden Change
Faith: God cares
Loss of faith: God?
Morality/Values
Collapse of Morality/Values
Clear Sense of Identity
Who am I? What is my place in the world?

5. Disenchantment Major World Events Around the world, people saw…
World War I ( )
The Great Depression ( )
World War II ( )
Around the world, people saw…
big corporations and mass production
Widening divide between people and the govt.
Rise in Revolutionary Ideologies: Communism, Fascism, and Anarchy
Powerful and deadly weapons
International tensions and domestic unrest

6. People Felt… Fractured Isolated and alone
The very structure of society is different. We must think “globally.”
Isolated and alone
Nothing is the same after the war.
Swallowed up and a loss of control
The war and other international forces are beyond any one person’s control.
Lost in the new global society
They felt as if they were wandering in a void.

7. Notes: After World War I…
Disillusionment: to free from “illusion,” a loss of naïve faith or trust
There was an overriding sense of doom
The world was seen as a violent, vulgar, and spiritually empty place.

8. Notes: What is Modernism?
Content
Class, race, gender, political and economic issues
Appearances are not always realities
Perspective
Cannot rely on the world for stability
So we must rely on our individual perceptions of the world.
Form
Experiments with no capital letters or punctuation, really long sentences, or obscure phrasings (mostly in poetry)

10. The Armory Show: International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913
Watershed date in American art
Introduced astonished New Yorkers, accustomed to realistic art, to modern art;
Teddy Roosevelt said, “That’s not art!”

11. Art
Matisse

12. Cubism
Cubism—
Art in which multiple views are presented simultaneously in flattened, geometric way.

13. Cubism

14. Dadaism Dadaism –deliberately irrational Strives to have no meaning
a protest against the barbarism of the War and oppressive intellectual rigidity;
Anti-art
Strives to have no meaning
Interpretation dependent entirely on the viewer;
Intentionally offends.

15. Dadaism
Duchamp

16. Surrealism Surrealism
Grew out of Dada and automatism.
Reveals the unconscious mind in dream images, the irrational, and the fantastic,
Impossible combinations of objects depicted in realistic detail.

17. Surrealism
Magritte
Dali

18. Jackson Pollock

19. Futurism Futurism—grew out of Cubism.
Added implied motion to the shifting planes and multiple observation points of the Cubists;
Celebrated natural as well as mechanical motion and speed.
Glorified danger, war, and the machine

20. Futurism
Giacomo Balla
Kandinsky

21. Modernism in Music
Randomized
Non-melodic

22. Modernism in Dance
Le Sacre Du Printemps by Pina Bausch Wuppertal Dance Theater
“The Rite of Spring”
Compare to “Swan Lake”
The Rite of Spring Riot

23. Dali, The Persistence of Memory 1931
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Street, 1907
Henri Matisse, Odalisque in Red Trousers, 1925
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

24. Small Groups…
You have15 minutes to discuss the painting as a group and be prepared to answer the following questions in front of the class:
What story is the painting telling?
How do the composition, line quality, and color contribute to the painting’s meaning?
What does the title of the painting contribute to its meaning?
How does this painting reflect Modernism?

25. W. B. Yeats Read: Introduction to W.B. Yeats (p. 1022)
Listen and Discuss: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats
Closing Type II Quick Write: Yeats writes this poem about escaping from civilization and living a Thoreau-like lifestyle at Lake Innisfree. Based on what you have learned about the modern period, why do you think he is expressing these sentiments in this poem? What is he responding to in his society?

26. Respond to the following in your notebooks…
“It is better, in a paradoxical way to do evil, than to do nothing: at least we exist …. The worst that can be said of most of our malefactors [wrongdoers], from statesmen to thieves, is that they are not man enough to be damned” – T.S. Eliot

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