Modernism

Virginia Woolf

“On or about December 1910, human character changed.”

Nash, We Are Making a New World (1918)

Munch, The Scream

Dali, Geopoliticus

Cubism

Futurism

Constructivism

Matisse, La Danse

Picasso, Crucifixion

Ezra Pound

Make it new!

Imagism• Direct treatment

of the “thing”• Economy of words• Composed in

sequence of the musical phrase

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)

Ezra Pound