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Art and Literature of the 1930s. By: Bailey Hammett, Jayda Eads, and Selena Newton. Queen Mary Titanic’s twin sister (as shown on LIFE magazine). Art. Empire State Building. Constructed: 1930-1931
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Art and Literature of the 1930s By: Bailey Hammett, Jayda Eads, and Selena Newton Queen Mary Titanic’s twin sister (as shown on LIFE magazine)
Empire State Building • Constructed: 1930-1931 • Designer: William Lamb • Where: 5th avenue and 34th street; New York, New York • Fun Fact: Featured in over 90 movies including KingKong and Independence Day
American Gothic • Artist: • Grant Wood • Created in: • 1930 • Type of art: • Oil on Beaverboard • Inspiration: • American values
Falling Water • Designer: • Frank Lloyd Wright • Designed in: • 1936: • Location: • Kaufmann Conservation, Bear Run: • Be sure to notice: • The house is actually built over a water fall
Psychological Morphology • Artist: • Roberto Matta • Created in: • 1939 • Type of art: • Morphology using crayon and pencil on paper • Inspiration: • Boredom and distortion
Famous Authors of the 1930s • Sinclair Lewis • author of It Can’t Happen Here a speculative work on American Fascism. • Also first American to win Nobel Prize in literature. • William Faulkner (1897-1962) • Tom Wolfe • Famous journalist
Books of the 1930’s • Little House on the Prairie written by Laurel Ingalls Wilder • Gone With the Wind written by Margaret Mitchell • To Have and Have not by Ernest Hemmingway
1930s Literature Awards! • Pearl S. Buck • Received the first Nobel Prize awarded to a woman. • Also received the Pulitzer prize for The Good Earth. • John Steinbeck • Received Nobel Piece Prize for famous book: Grapes of Wrath.