1. Gilded Age Culture Literature Genteel Literature Regionalism ex: Twain
Realism ex: William Dean Howells
The “New Woman” ex: Kate Chopin
Naturalism ex: Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane

2. Gilded Age Culture Painting Old Masters Ashcan Group ex: Robert Henri
Post-impressionists – Armory exhibit

3. The Ashcan School
Robert Henri – “Snow in New York”

4. The Ashcan School
Joan Sloan “Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street”

5. Postimpressionism
Van Gogh “Starry Night”

6. Postimpressionism
Claudia Hansen

7. Gilded Age Culture Architecture
Reconstruction of Chicago after 1871 fire
Skyscrapers (Bessemer steel, elec. elevators)
Louis Sullivan – “form follows function”
Frank Lloyd Wright

8. Louis Sullivan

9. Frank Lloyd Wright

11. Gilded Age Culture Pop Culture Rise of Sports
Relaxation of blue laws
Baseball – 1st commercialized sport, World Series started in 1903, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” big hit in 1908
Football – college game; violent – played by working class, attended by upper classes (Roman gladiators?)
Boxing – “blood sport”; ethnic, working-class; Jon L. Sullivan (Irish); Jack Johnson (African-American)
Amusement Parks (invention of streetcar co.) & Circuses

12. John L. Sullivan

13. Jack Johnson

14. Gilded Age Culture Music Pop Culture (cont’d)
“Tin Pan Alley” – pop music center – 28th St., NYC
Jazz
Ragtime – Scott Joplin
New Orleans / Dixieland Jazz (Storyville neighborhood)
– Louie Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton
Chicago Style – white version
Blues – more rural, working-class; Mississippi Delta

15. Scott Joplin

16. King Oliver

17. Gilded Age Culture Pop Culture (cont’d) Theater Education
Minstrel Shows
Vaudeville – variety shows
Motion Pictures (Thomas Edison – invented film camera)
“Great Train Robbery” – Edwin Porter (1903)
“The Birth of a Nation” – DW. Griffith (1915); incredible technical advances; first full-length feature; racist glorification of the KKK
Education
Expansion – after the Civil War; HS in the South; age requirements; Catholic schools in urban centers
Professionalization & Specialization – medical schools, law schools, certification of teachers, etc.

18. Gilded Age Culture Journalism Improved technology after Civil War
Translatlantic cable, Modern typewriter, cheaper paper, telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)
New Style
Yellow Journalism; exaggerated and sensationalized; Joseph Pulitzer; William Randolph Hearst

19. Gilded Age Culture
New Ideas – Modern adjustments to the new reality of urban, industrial society
Reform Darwinism – Institutions must adapt and change
The Law – Oliver Wendell Holmes – legal system must evolve to serve people fairly
History – Frederick Jackson Turner – end of the frontier
Philosophy – rational, experimental, practical look at cause-and-effect; William James – “Pragmatism”; John Dewey – progressive education
Religion –
Modernists vs. Fundamentalists
The “social gospel” - help the poor, a more humane interpretation of Christian scripture, Walter Rauschenbusch
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