1. Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon Robert Delaunay French Artist

2. We are learning about modernism. Characteristics of Modernist time period. How do visual representations reflect cultural time periods? Modernism, lost, disillusion

3. Modernism & the Effects America’s journey toward cultural melting pot

4. Historical Backdrop WWI (1914-1918) –Trench Warfare –Lost generation of European men –US entered in 1917 after Americans killed on an English ship –Sense of disillusionment

5. Post WW I –Women’s vote (1919) –Prohibition (1920- 1933) Bootlegging Speakeasies Gang warfare –New Morality Short skirts Bobbed hair Slang –Economy boom Auto industry/assembly line Movie industry Radio and Jazz

6. Great Depression, WWII, Peace Stock Market Crash 1929 By 1932 12 million people are out of work Roosevelt—president in 1932—New Deal America entered WWII after Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 Arrival of Peace and Atomic Age—1945

7. Literature of the time Fragmented: omitted exposition, transitions, resolutions, explanations Themes are implied World begins to notice Americans –TS Eliot (1949) & William Faulkner (1949) Pulitzer Prize winners Stream of consciousness—develops psychology Simple, journalistic style (esp. Hemingway) Lost Generation—disillusioned by WWI move to Europe (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, Eliot)

8. Modernism Continued… http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/

9. Homework Don’t forget your Annotated Bibliography is due on Today by 11:59pm. reading pages 704-712 in textbook will now be done Monday 7/21/11 in class Answer questions 1-12 in your packet