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American Culture in the 1920s. Mass Production Sports Racial Tensions Mass Consumption Prohibition Harlem Renaissance Women’s Suffrage Flappers.
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Mass Production Sports Racial Tensions Mass Consumption Prohibition Harlem Renaissance Women’s Suffrage Flappers
The Culture of Prosperity: Americans were intoxicated by their new freedoms & exuberant in their pursuit of pleasure and wealth. J. C. Leyendecker (above) was an illustrator for Saturday Evening Post.
More than 1.2 million immigrants had come to the U.S. in 1914. Once the immigration restrictions of the 1920s took effect, the overall total was fixed at only 160,000 or so immigrants a year.
The United States became a modern middle-class economy of radios, consumer appliances, automobiles and suburbs. Nearly thirty million motor vehicles were on the road in 1929, one for every five residents of the country. Mass production had made the post-World War I United States the richest society the world had ever seen.
Sampsons power lay in his tressesMan of old went 'round in dressesWhen the cave man loved And when he courtedTo crude methods He resortedThe shing-le bobprotects your knob.Bob your hair. Long ago when the girls wore knickersOn "Main Street" were lots of kickersNow nobody cares but her good old Uncle Sam.Rolls her own and doesn't give a girlhere's your chanceWhy not advance Repeat Chorus Now my girlie in all creationThere's no simpler operationTo renew your youth And it will restore you beauty,All the boys will call you cutiebe up to daterejuvinateBob your Hair. "Bob Your Hair"lyrics by Myrtle B. SidersMusic by James S. Colvin Ancient Maiden the sun is shiningDo not waste your time re-piningWhen you feel old age came a-creeping o'er you.Here's the thing that will restore youIt's not too lateDon't hesitate ChorusThat long hair wins mans devotionIs a Horse and Buggy notion,In these days of locomotion in the airIf you would look cute and prettylike the girls do in the cityCan the small town stuff by wittyBob your hair.
first | Page 1 of 8 | last next image >> Stuart Davis. (American, 1892-1964) views: single object | browse | list | text only printable view << previous artist < browse and search the collection > Consumer Culture & the Search for National Identity:Discussions about America & the machine age took place against a backdrop of nationalism as artists sought to identify what was uniquely AmericanLucky Strike (1921) by Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
Look for a focus on: • Industrialization • Urbanization (with abstraction) • Man vs. Machine • Sky scrapers—with new perspective • Factories • Straight lines (parallel or intersecting) • Repetition of shapes
Chrysler Corporation (1929) by Margaret Bourke-White
Powerhouse Mechanic (1925) by Lewis W. Hine
Jazz Age cinema was maturing as an art form & as a business Gloria Swanson, New York (1924) by Edward Steichen
During her decades-long career, Gloria Swanson became the epitome of the Hollywood star. Edward Steichen took this photograph of the actress, an outtake from the November 1924 Vanity Fair.
Matches and Matchboxes: 1926 Fabric Design for Stehli Silks by Edward Steichen
Abstract Nature Painting & Photography: Alfred Steiglitz (1864-1946) & his circle of artists were developing a mature & powerful personal style • Equivalent (1926)
Bridal Veil Fall, Yosemite Valley (c. 1927) by Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Charles SheelerFactories/UrbanizationMan vs. MachinePrecisionism: the American version of the “call to order” that swept Europe after the carnage & brutality of World War I.
