10:4 Cultural Innovations Art and Literature – “bohemian” (artistic and unconventional...

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10:4 Cultural Innovations

• Art and Literature– “bohemian” (artistic and unconventional lifestyle)– Greenwich Village (Manhattan)– Chicago’s South Side

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• Art– John Marin• A city is “alive”

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• Art– Charles Scheeler• Cubism mixed with photography

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• Art– Edward Hopper• Realism• Modern life is full of isolation and disenchantment

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• Poets and Writers– Carl Sandburg– Willa Cather• Glorified the West and Great Plains

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• Poets and Writers– Gertrude Stein– Ezra Pound– T.S. Eliot• Modernism is full of empty dreams and promises

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• Poets and Writers– “Lost Generation”• Writers who left America after WWI• Wrote about “heroic anti-heroes”

– Flawed individuals with heroic qualities