Notes on Modernism Flashcards
(31 cards)
the urban skyline defined by _____ becomes a powerful symbol of american economic power and technological knowhow
skyscrapers
Widespread ______ continues to shape the American population
immigration
immigration continues to cause concern among traditional ______
white elites
_____, Congress enacts exclusionary legislation to restrict immigration; that legislation, and the onset of _________ will slow the tide of immigration for many years
1924, the Great Depression
Closing of _______ encourages overseas expansion of American power
Frontier
continuous intervention in ________, ______
Latin America, Pacific territories
late entry (_____) of US into ________ reverses more than a century of non-intervention into European affairs
1917, World War I
many inventions of the late nineteenth century (_______, ________, __________) become widely disseminated ________ during this era
automobile, phonograph, motion pictures, “Facts of life”
_________ system of assembly line manufacture makes cars affordable for the middle class
Henry Ford
key element in the growth of the new consumer economy–growth of inexpensive manufactured goods and more consumer credit erode ______ ideas of _______ and ______
puritan, thrift, restraint
new economy encourages use of consumer goods as means of self-definition: ______ and ______ rather than _____
style, taste, inner character
new culture industry of _____, _______, and ______ both reflect and encourage this trend
movies, popular music, slick magazines
_____ artists will take a complex attitude toward these trends
modern
________ has found the dynamo of an inexplicable force; what would he have thought of the new physics, pioneered by _____, ____, and others, which shattered the idea of an ordered _______ world and suggested that time and space were relative phenomenon
Henry Adams, Einstein, Bohr, Newtonian
new science is counter intuitive; strikes another blow world view of ____________that had been eroding since the early nineteenth century
orthodox Christianity
economic opportunities opened by the war encourage northward migration of southern blacks (________); many northern cities acquire large black enclaves that serve as centers of cultural production (rise of ______, the_________)
the Great Migration, jazz, Harlem Renaissance
many blacks attracted to the _____________ support of antiracist causes (the ________)
Communist Party’s, Scottsboro Boys
Women gain the vote in ______
1920
figure of the ______ able to engage in traditional male pursuits (_______, ________, _________)
smoking, drinking, more relaxed sexuality
Flapper is a key symbol of new, more permissive society of the postwar world, a society paradoxically enabled by the restriction of the sale of alcoholic beverages known as _________; law leads to widespread violation, growth of __________; new culturally important figure of the _____
Prohibition, organized crime, gangster
Literature of this period is generally designated as ______ or ______
modern, modernist
term’s sense, like that of ________ is complex, but is principally is used in two ways
Realism
different periodization: some date the beginnings of Modernism from the _____ but the term most commonly used to designate art and literature between he two world wars (______-______)
1890s, 1914-1939
as a thematic designation referring to a particular sort of literature; body of work that represents a particular response to the culture of ________
urbanized capitalism
