Directions: Copy each sentence exactly how it is written. Make corrections where needed using some basic editing codes.

1
Warm-up FOL ?

• Directions Copy each sentence exactly how it is
  written. Make corrections where needed using
  some basic editing codes.
• insert capitalization e
  delete
• Laughing histerically Andrews freind could not
  speak inteligibly.
• Sarah I hear you singing yesterday said Rick.

2
American Modernism
3
Phases of Modernism

• Early
• 1890-1920 Avant-garde (Dadaism, Surrealism,
  Cubism)
• High
• 1920 1929 Modernist Classics (Ulysses, The
  Waste Land, Manhattan Transfer,The Great Gatsby,
  Cane), Experimenalism, Minimalism, Black
  modernism
• Thirties 1930 1940 Socialist realism,
  proletarian novel, black modernism
• Late Modernism 1940 - 1960 modernism is
  canonized
• Post-Modernism 1960 - 1990s radicalization of
  modernism or break with high modernism

4
Ezra Pound Make it new!
5
Isabel, Caroline, Denise, Jelena
Chantal, Tatjana
Cornelia, Valerie, Annika
Lena, Julia, Mirjam, Caroline
6
Luisa, Katharina
Steven
Daniela, Sofia, Jan, Maria
Christoph, Nadja, Kathi, Falko
7

• The Armory Show 1913
• Watershed date in American art
• Introduced astonished New Yorkers to modernism
• Teddy Roosevelt said, Thats not art!
• In 1913, a single exhibition changed the
  face of American art forever. The International
  Exhibition of Modern Art, known as the Armory
  Show,endeavored to combine the newest and most
  striking examples of European art with their
  American counterparts in a magnificent,
  unparalleled show.
• http//www.artandeducation.net/paper/the-19
  13-armory-show-much-ado-about-everything/)

8

• Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912

9
"Take the picture which for some reason is
called 'A Naked Man Going Down Stairs'. There is
in my bathroom a really good Navajo rug which, on
any proper interpretation of the Cubist theory,
is a far more satisfactory and decorative
picture. ... and from the standpoint of
decorative value, of sincerity, and of artistic
merit, the Navajo rug is infinitely ahead of the
picture." (Theodore Roosevelt )
10

• Thomas Eakins The Swimming Hole, 1884/85

11
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)Mrs Knowles and
her Children, 1902
12

• Henri Matisse, 1869-1954
• The Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907
• oil, 36 1/4 x 55 1/8.

13

• Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968
• Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
• (Nu descendant un escalier), 1912
• oil, 58 x 35.

14

• "Duchamps Nude creates an atmosphere of
• release, color release, release from
• stereotyped forms, trite subjects. I (William
• Carlos Williams) laughed out loud when I first
• saw it, happily, with relief."
• (Williams 134). 

15

• Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles dAvignon, 1907
• The Birth of Modernism

16
(No Transcript)
17
Ezra Pound Make it new!
18

• In a Station of the Metro
• The apparition of these faces in the crowd
• Petals on a wet, black bough.
• Ezra Pound, 1913

19

• The Red Wheelbarrow
• so much depends
• upon
• a red wheel
• barrow
• glazed with rain
• water
• beside the white
• chickens. William Carlos Williams, 1923

20

• Ta
• ta
• ppin
• g
• toe
• hip
• popot
• amus Back
• gen
• teel-ly lugu
• bri ous
• eyes
• LOOPTHELOOP

21

• Harlem
• What happens to a dream deferred?
• Does it dry up
• like a raisin in the sun?
• Or fester like a sore
• And then run?
• Does it stink like rotten meat?
• Or crust and sugar over
• like a syrupy sweet?
• Maybe it just sags
• like a heavy load.
• Or does it explode?
• Langston Hughes, 1951

22
T.S. Eliot These fragments that I have shored
up against my ruins

• The fragments are fragments from the literature
  of the
• past. Eliot contrasted the wholeness of past eras
  in our
• heritage with what he saw as the fracturing of
  feeling,
• sensibility and belief in his own day, the 1920s,
  a time of public and, for Eliot himself, personal
  collapse.
• (Excerpt from The Great Books by Anthony O'Hear)

23
What is Modernism? A Dictionary Definition

• "a general term applied retrospectively to the
  wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends
  in the literature (and other arts) of the early
  20th century.... Modernist literature is
  characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-cent
  traditions and the conventions of realism ...
  (e.g. traditional meter). Modernist writers
  tended to see themselves as an avant-garde
  disengaged from bourgeois values, and disturbed
  their readers by adopting complex and difficult
  new forms and styles. In fiction, the accepted
  continuity of chrono-logical development was
  upset. In poetry, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
  replaced the logical exposition of thoughts with
  collages of fragmentary images and complex
  allusions. Modernist writing is predominantly
  cosmopolitan, and often expresses a sense of
  urban cultural dislocation, along with an
  awareness of new anthropological and
  psychological theories. Its favoured techniques
  of juxtaposition and multiple point of view
  challenge the reader to reestablish a coherence
  of meaning from fragmentary forms.
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms,
  1991

24
What is Modernism?

• International tendency in the arts (literature,
  music, architecture, film, dance)
• Rejection of tradition, Anti-Victorian
• Experimental, fragmented, non-representational,
  anti-realist
• New narrative techniques stream of
  consciousness, interior monologue
• Themes psychological, self-alienation,-realisatio
  n, emancipation, tries to represent human
  subjectivity
• Goals Make art more vivid authentic
• Effect on the reader challenging, unsettling,
  disturbing

25
Value Differences in the Modern World
26
What events/trends/theories do you associate with
these dates?

• 1900
• 1929
• 1939

27
(No Transcript)
28
Scientific Revolution

• Albert Einsteins Principle of Uncertainty
• In quantum mechanics increasing the accuracy of
  measurement of one observable quantity increases
  the uncertainty with which another may be known
• Quantum theory
• Explains the nature of matter and energy on the
  atomic and subatomic level

29
(No Transcript)
30
Modernity Film

• Kinetoscope 1893-95
• Thomas Edison in 1891 patent 1893 demo of 35mm
  film
• Andrew Holland opened 1st peep-show parlor on
  Broadway April 1894, with Kinetoscopes for
  individual viewers 25 cents for 16-second film
  viewed individually
• Vaudeville Theaters 1895-1905
• Louis and Auguste Lumiere in Paris 1895Edison
  purchased rights to the Vitascope 1896
• Nickelodeon 1905-15
• urban working-class storefront theaters showing
  movies for 10 cent.
• Edwin S. Porter's photoplay The Great Train
  Robbery,1903. The 300 vaudeville theaters offered
  a variety of entertainment for 50 cents
• by 1910, 26 mill. attended 10,000 movie theaters
  each week for 10 cents.
• 1915-1925 Rise of Classical Hollywood Narrative
  Film 

31
(No Transcript)
32
Modernism

• W worldly
• ? MODERNITY
• M metropolitan
• D democratic stylistic
• ? personal emancipation
• sexual

33
Characteristics of Modernism in Literature

• Meaning comes from the individuals perspective
  and is personalized
• A single story might be told from the perspective
  of several different people, with the assumption
  that the truth is somewhere in the middle -
  relativism

34
Inner psychological reality or interiority is
represented

• Stream of consciousnessportraying the
  characters inner monologue

35
Characteristics of Modernism in Literature

• No longer seen as transparent, allowing us to
  see through to reality
• But now considered the way an individual
  constructs reality
• Language is thick with multiple meanings and
  varied connotative forces.

36
Characteristics of Modernism in Literature

• Emphasis on the Experimental
• Art is artifact rather than reality
• Organized non-sequentially
• Experience portrayed as layered, allusive,
  discontinuous, using fragmentation and
  juxtaposition.
• Ambiguous endingsopen endings which are seen as
  more representative of reality.

37
(No Transcript)