7.2
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7.2 – Cultural Innovations
Cultural Movement
Art
Literature
Popular Culture
Main Characteristics
Cultural Movement
Art
Literature
Popular Culture
Main Characteristics
• Diverse
• Individual expression influenced by
European Art movement
Cultural Movement
Main Characteristics
Art
• Diverse
Literature
• Various styles and subject matter
• themes of disillusionment and
emptiness
Popular Culture
• Individual expression influenced by
European Art movement
Cultural Movement
Main Characteristics
Art
• Diverse
Literature
• Various styles and subject matter
• themes of disillusionment and
emptiness
Popular Culture
•sports heroes
•Hollywood allure
•Radio shows
•Jazz and blues
• Individual expression influenced by
European Art movement
7-2 Study Guide Answers
1. What did American artists and writers in the
1920s explore? What it meant to be a
modern and they searched for meaning in a
modern world.
2. What does "Bohemian" mean in relation to
artists, writers, and musicians? Aritistic and
unconventional
3. Where did artists go to find centers of
creativity, enlightenment, and freedom?
Manhattan’s Greenwich Village & Chicago’s
Southside
4. Whose paintings conveyed a modern sense of
disenchantment and isolation? Edward
Hopper
7-2 Study Guide Answers
5. What was Carl Sandburg's main theme, and
how did he express it? Glorification of the
midwest expressed through common
speech
6. What writer expressed women's equality and
praised a life intensely lived? Edna St.
Vincent Millay
7. Who were three poets who used clear, concise
images to express moments in time? Ezra
Pound, Amy Lowell & William Carlos
Williams
7-2 Study Guide Answers
8. How did T.S. Eliot describe the negative
effects of modernism? As a world filled with
empty dreams and “hollow men”
9. What did Eugene O'Neill's work dramatize?
Realistic characters & situations,
sometimes tragic
10. How was John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy
innovative? It combined fiction, biography,
news headlines and prose.
11. What was the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby? The emptiness &
superficiality of much of modern society.
On the Back of 7-2 Study Guide complete
the following for poets and writers p. 420
Writer
Genre
(poet, novelist)
Description or
characteristic of
work
Carl Sandburg
Poet
•Common speech to
glorify Midwest
Eugene O’Neill
Playwright
•Realistic characters &
situations
•Vision of life- sometimes
tragic
Ernest
Hemmingway
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Writer- novelist
Direct, simple, concise,
prose
Writer- novelist
•Colorful, glamorous
characters
•Superficiality of much of
modern society
7-2 Study Guide Answers
12. With what did the economic prosperity of the 1920s
provide many Americans? More leisure time & more
spending money, which they devoted to making
their lives more enjoyable
13. What did radio and motion pictures make more
popular? Sports, such as baseball & boxing
14. When was the first "talking" picture produced, and
what was it? The Jazz Singer - 1927
15. When was one of the first radio broadcasts in history,
and what was it? In 1920 the news of the landslide
victory of Warren G. Harding in the Presidential
election