1. Modernism

2. Modernism 1901?-8:15:17a.m. JST, Aug. 6, 1945
Modernism is a completely new Episteme—a way of knowing what we know.
It grew out of philosophers, artists, writers, politicians, psychologists, architects, musicians, etc. who made a decision to Challenge the old way of looking at Life, The Universe, and Everything.
Marked by key questions about Nature, Order, and the importance of Individual observation in the construction of reality.

3. Poetic Distinctions Ambiguity
Style is usually free verse—no rhyme scheme, meter, or stanza form
The romantic notion of nature driving artistic creation is inverted to the poet’s individual interpretation of the world, and not really the world of nature, but of human creation.
Typically rely on established western myths, symbols, and narratives, but invert the traditional understanding and replace it with a darker view.
Imagery is of a dark/urban/battle-scarred world
Lack of easily identified meaning and the reader is often left struggling or torn between multiple interpretations—a single poem can deal with multiple, unrelated ideas and images.
Marked by a presentation of experience as layered, allusive, discontinuous; the use, to these ends, of fragmentation and juxtaposition, motif, symbol, and allusion—often expressed through stream of consciousness.
Ambiguity

4. Poets T.S. Eliot W.B. Yeats W.H. Auden e.e. cummings Wallace Stevens
Amy Lowell
Marianne Moore
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elizabeth Bishop
Langston Hughes
Ezra Pound
Robert Frost
Emphasis on expansion of female and non-caucasion authors—Ezra Pound supported fascism and was never criticized for it , but Millay criticized heavily for her passionate support of democracy

5. Novelists James Joyce Virginia Woolf Joseph Conrad D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
Samuel Beckett
E. M. Forster
Earnest Hemmingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emphasis on expansion of female and non-caucasion authors—Ezra Pound supported fascism and was never criticized for it , but Millay criticized heavily for her passionate support of democracy

6. Modernism in Art
Picasso Weeping Woman, Jackson Pollack’s No. 5 sold for $140 million in 2006, Mark Rothko’s Orange and Yellow
Which one holds the sale record for any piece of art?
$140,000,000

7. Modernism in Architecture
William Van Alan’s Chrysler building and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Waters

8. Modernism in Architecture
Mile Van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House

9. Some of the characteristics of Modern Poetry I found include the following:
Look for these as you explicate and prepare for your presentation: Formal characteristics Open Form Free verse Discontinuous narrative Juxtaposition Intertextuality Classical allusions Borrowings from other cultures and languages Unconventional use of metaphor Metanarrative Fragmentation Multiple narrative points of view (parallax)
Thematic characteristics Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future Disillusionment Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes Stream of consciousness Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century