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Name properties of Modernism
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experimentation with form and structure
stream of consciousness symbolism layered meanings to be decoded core of profound truth anti-provincialism uses irony to shock theme: modern anxiety and cult. despair tradition of the new critique of mainstream society complex, poetical, lyrical alienation healing of societal sicknesses (freud) |
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Who was Ernest Hemmingway?
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"lost generation"
used career/ journalism to escape Midwest ubringing writing considered minimalist just had essence of the story wrote Hills Like White Elephants |
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What is Hills Like White Elephants about?
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abortion
archetypal main fig. rep. us plight of ind. in 20th cent. = rootlessness, dislocation, always in transit, no support (fam. , comm.) modernists good about criticizing self as well white elephant - gifts that are not wanted |
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Explain the American dream in relation to the Great Gatsby
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gatsby = pos./ neg. sides of Am. dream
oversimplified into material goods individualistic achievement sacrifice more important things anxiety about where in soc. class |
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Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
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officer in middle class with wife Zelda
1st book is when wife married him Moralist - outside of elite soc., crit. and judged excesses though participated |
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The self-made man myth
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Horatio Alger - rags to riches tales
its your own initiative insensitive to see systematic problems and oversimplifies |
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Jazz Age
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hedonism and exp. moralism
live the jet set life superficial, cultural things |
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Classless soc. vs. class consciousness
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Am. proud of not having classes but more anxiety over class consciousness because blurred lines and ability to move up, need to accumulate markers of class achievement, comparing, wealth is a sign of elitism
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Great Gatsby themes
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classless soc. vs. class consciousness
assimilation/ formation in America reinventing one's identity in a fluid, class conscious society. ind. at core of Am ethic competing notions of the Am. dream - pos. = opportunity, neg. = barriers and class striving, prejudice, race ranking, jealousy |
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How is gatsby a tragic hero?
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symbol of the everyman
Greek= have to be noble birth Am. = no noble birth for tragic arch in life victim to systematic pattern of society - racism and class structure obsession to get what he wants victimizes him - never satisfied or happy, gets Daisy but wants more, gets shot for something he didn't do |
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Langston Hughes
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was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Harlem rennaisance
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found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North. Challenging white paternalism and racism, African-American artists and intellectuals rejected imitating the styles of Europeans and white Americans and instead celebrated black dignity and creativity. Asserting their freedom to express themselves on their own terms, they explored their identities as black Americans, celebrating the black culture that had emerged out of slavery, as well as cultural ties to Africa.
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the new negro
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anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African American art and literature edited by Alain Locke
“The Negro Renaissance”, which included Locke's title essay ”The New Negro” as well as nonfiction essays, poetry, and fiction by writers including Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay, and “The New Negro in a New World,” which contained social and political analysis by writers |
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zora neale hurston
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American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance
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archibald J. Motley jr.
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was an African-American painter, and on occasion, sculptor. interested in skin tone and the definition of black based on skin
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winold reiss
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Reiss was a portraitist and his philosophy was that an artist must travel to find the most interesting subjects.Winold Reiss was a leader who devoted most of his life towards painting a much broader cross section of ethnic diversity in America, in a compassionate and objective manner, than any artist before him.
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aaron douglas
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The style Aaron Douglas developed in the 1920s synthesized aspects of modern European, ancient Egyptian, and West African art. His best-known paintings are semi-abstract, and feature flat forms, hard edges, and repetitive geometric shapes. Bands of color radiate from the important objects in each painting, and where these bands intersect with other bands or other objects, the color changes.
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carl van vechten
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was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.[1] portrait of photograph. artist
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james vanderzee
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an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period. Among his most famous subjects during this time were Marcus Garvey, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Countee Cullen.
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t.s. eliot
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was an English poet, playwright and literary critic. Wasteland about disillusionment of post war generation
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describe of photography changed art
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before many functions but photo took that and so now art took on higher themes - art for art's sake, modernism
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Explain modernism in art
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pure aesthetic exp.
still keeps truths but reality differs goal: tap into primal energy |
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Max Weber
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Cubism/ Futurism
Rush Hour, New York break up parts to understand |
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JOHN MARIN
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cubism/ futurism
:lower manhattan watercolor captures fleeting impressions subjective and spontaneous |
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Georgia O' Keefe
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cubism/ futurism
Ranchos Chapel Great American Painting |
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Joseph Stella
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cubism/ futurism
"brooklyn bridge" battle of lights, coney island |
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Charles Sheeler
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futurism/ cubism
classic landscape |
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Marcel Duchamp
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dadaism
fountain nude descending a staircase |
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Thomas Hart benton
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regionalism
arts of the west |
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john stuart curry
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regionalism
tornado over kansas |
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Grant Wood
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regionalism
American Gothic stone city |
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Maynard Dixon
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regionalism
forgotton man |
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walter benjamin
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essay that says that film and photo can be deomcratizing
marxist perspective - speak for working classes in liberating ways Also - film powerful propoganda |
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traditional art
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cult aura or value
masterpeice, one of a kind reverential status cultural power in ideals and norms and power wielded by elite in soc. |
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mechanically reproduced art
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replaces cult value with exhibition or use value
desacrilizes art more people reframe the world from their perspectice accessible |
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Art Photography
Alfred Stieglitz |
291 Gallery
compete with painting, and had similar effects |
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Edward Steichen
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art photography
photos that look like art self portrait hollywood pictures of celebs. abandons pictorialist picture of homeless woman stylized conscience to take soc. pictures |
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Social Documentary photography
jacob Riis |
stark scenes of poverty, child labor, and immigrants
journalist documentary photo |
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Lewis Hine
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socially aesthetic photography of poor that empathized with them
had many followers |
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Alfred Stieglitz
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Straight Photography/ hybrids
art that captures photos inherent strengths immediacy the steerage |
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Paul Strand
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Straight photo/ hybrids
Stieglitz protege ranchos de taos otherworldly, see with fresh eyes everyday objects made abstract |
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dorothea Lange
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straight photo/ hybrid
sensitive soc. documentary leaves studios and high class portraits hired by gov. to show migrant workers in depression doctors some |
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Walker Evans
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straight photo/ hybrid
no permission like lange and hines doesn't get to know them captures on the fly to reveal things they might not want known about them |
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the Western School or f64 group
Edward Weston |
focus from foreground to background
deepest focus find detail and clarity |
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Western School
Ansel Adams |
environmentalist - yosemite
fudged a little in studio for dramatic effect great in terms of composition, depth, and value stuck with black and white instead of color |
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f64 group
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Group f/64 was a group of seven 20th century San Francisco photographers who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western
subject, against pictorialists |
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Modernist Arch.
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novelty and exp./ tradition of the new
progress - change soc. for the better heroism - genius and audacity of artist purity - eliminate detail/ ornamentation new materials - steel, concrete, glass |
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destijl schools of design
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made the bahaus
bahuas stripped orn. so more dem. no class distinction future of arch. for proletariat both european schools of design |
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problems with modern arch
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can't relate/ scale hard to look at
no thought to people and existing environ. arrogant, sore thumb emph. progress= devalue past, heritage torn down vunerable to wind tunnel effects fire constantly restore smooth, white surfaces |
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Hugh ferris
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arch.
neo- am. style - ny setback laws and aztec-temple skyscrapers celebrates himself as a visionary nice align with sci. fi., utopian vision of future |
