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    As the American literary and artistic movement transitioned from a Romantic sense of Realism, Modernism was brought forth as a means to oppose rational, enlightenment views and devoid their meanings. During this Modernist Era, America culture also witnessed a shift from these rational views to the promotion of one’s image, desire for entertainment and increased leisure time, and equal treatment of women and men. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot criticizes this American culture…

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    Catcher In The Modernism

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    The Catcher in the Modernism In today’s fast-paced society, the definition of modern is constantly changing as genius minds invent and introduce brilliant ideas and innovations to the world. “Modern” pertains to something that relates to recent times, or the present, however, how recent can modern be? For example, modern literature sprouted at the start of World War I, and about a century later, many scholars claim that the Modernist movement has not yet ended. Contradictory to the population’s…

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    The artistic movements of modernism and postmodernism had a major influence on American culture and society. This is evident in the modernist painting of Alfred Henry Maurer, as well as in the postmodernist art of Norman Rockwell. The poetry of Langston Hughes during the modernist era during the early twentieth century also had a major impact on American Culture through the revival of art in the Harlem Renaissance. Likewise, Richard Brautigan’s postmodernist approach to poetry was significant…

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    Arising out of a rebellious mood, the late 19th and early 20th century was a time where many writers broke away from tradition by using modernism to take a radical approach on the way society viewed modern literature (Modernism/literature.com). Experimentation and individualism became virtues, where before they were looked down upon. Modernism was set in motion after a series of cultural shocks. The first of these great shocks was the Great War, known now as World War One. At the time, this “War…

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    “The famous ‘modern break with tradition’ has lasted long enough to have produced its own tradition” (Rosenberg 9). Harold Rosenberg, in his famous essay, “The Tradition of the New” (1960), brings up a fundamental aspect about artistic innovations—they eventually become part of the system they disrupted. A variation on this theme is found in one of T.S. Eliot’s most influential texts—“Tradition and Individual Talent” (1917). For Eliot, tradition is not inherited; it is produced within a network…

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    's was born a great American poet by the name of Edwin Arlington Robinson. A naturally talented writer, Robinson grew into his profession during an era of struggle. While the world squandered to acquire wealth, and while most failed, the poets of this time solemnly wrote about what was unfolding. Events throughout his life lead to the inspiration for one of his most famous poems, “Richard Cory”. Edwin Arlington Robinson was a poet in the Modernist era significant to American poetry because he…

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    Art Deco

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    Part One: What style speaks to you the most and why? List designers and examples of works to justify your response. The style that speaks the most to me is Modernism. I like the modern architecture because it is a reflection of the great technical innovations that began to appear in the nineteenth century. Materials such as steel and concrete give architects unreleased possibilities of creation, which makes the style completely unlike anything have seen. What best characterizes and makes me…

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    example. The author offers a postmodern writer, named Kurt Vonnegut Jr, a well-known American author. He is well known for his style of writing, often jumping around in time, place and character between each chunk of texts. In the first paragraph, the author dedicates after World War I or known simply as the “Great War”, influenced a new era in arts and literature to initiate. The new movement is called Modernism. The author points out that we still use the word “modern”…

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    played a key role in modernism’s development and influences. Modernism in downtown Los Angeles moved the communities into a new nontraditional style. As we explore the buildings of Los Angeles we see how…

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    contributing to the development of American Modernism (“Georgia O’Keeffe,” n.d.). In fact, during 1985, president Ronald Reagan awarded her with the National Medals of Arts in honor of her contributions (“Georgia O’Keeffe Biography,” 2016). After she died, an art museum was built in her name to commemorate and hold her artwork. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico is the first museum dedicated to a female artist, and attracts many scholars of modern American art to its research…

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