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MODERNISM Modernism is an arts movement that predominantly

MODERNISM Modernism is an arts movement that predominantly Took place in the first half of the twentieth century. Modernism. A response to Industrial and technological progress Incresing populations and urbanization (city centers) Victorian Period

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MODERNISM Modernism is an arts movement that predominantly

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  1. MODERNISM Modernism is an arts movement that predominantly Took place in the first half of the twentieth century.

  2. Modernism A response to • Industrial and technological progress • Incresing populations and urbanization (city centers) • Victorian Period • World War I- Fragmentation and disillusionment following

  3. Modernism Goals of • Modernism strived to find the individual’s place in a chaotic world. Modernism emphasized impressionism and subjectivity • The individual’s perspective on the world • No “truth” at center of story – no definitive reality being documented

  4. Traits of Modern Literature • Movement away from omniscient third-person narrators (or fixed points of view) and clear-cut moral positions. • Frequent use of stream of consciousness • Fragmented narratives • Influence of the classics and history (often as hodgepodge) • Idea-oriented/intellectual

  5. EXAMPLES: • Picasso – Dora Maar au Chat (1941) • Demuth – The Figure 5 in Gold (1928) • James Joyce- Ulysses (1922) • “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” • Yeats – “The Second Coming” (1921) • “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” • Eliot – The Waste Land (1922) • “You cannot say, or guess, for you know onlyA heap of broken images”

  6. Modernism Pablo PicassoDora Maar au Chat, 1941 Charles Demuth The Figure 5 in Gold,1928

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