Boom and Bust

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Boom and Bust

• Unit 6
• 1920 - 1941

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The Jazz Age

• Cultural Innovations
• Chapter 17 Section 4

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Art and Literature

• Modern American Art
• John Marin nature and urban areas
• Charles Scheeler applied the use of photography
  and geometric forms of cubism to urban and rural
  landscapes
• Edward Hopper realism
• Georgia OKeeffes landscape and flowers

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John Marin
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Charles Scheeler
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Edward Hopper
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Georgia OKeeffe
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Poets and Writers

• Carl Sandburg
• Used common speech to glorify the Midwest
• Willa Cather
• Wrote about life on the Great Plains
• Many poets used clear and concise meaning to
  express moments in time

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Poets and Writers

• Lost Generation
• Wrote about the disillusionment of World War I
• Ernest Hemingway
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Great Gatsby
• Sinclair Lewis
• Wrote about small town life
• Edith Wharton
• Criticized upper class ignorance

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Popular Culture

• Movies and Radio Shows
• Before sound theaters hired piano players to
  provide music
• The Jazz Singer first talking picture
• Mass Media
• Radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at
  a broad audience

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Popular Culture

• Sports
• Baseball and Boxing
• Babe Ruth
• Jack Dempsey heavyweight champion from 1919
  -1926
• College Football
• Red Grange Galloping Ghost
• Golf and Tennis
• Bobby Jones won the US Open and the British
  Open in the same year
• Bill Tilden
• Swimming
• Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel in 14
  hours in 1927