AP Modernism
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Historical Roots
Violence (world wars, totalitarianism, colonial rebellions)
Culture Clashes (colonialism, immigration, urbanization)
Mass Culture (Technology, consumerism, advertising)
How did art change?
Fragmentation
Lost Faith
Alienation
Experimentation
Lost Faith
-In gods and religion
-Bourgeois morality
-”Progress,” economic prosperity
-Politics and government
Alienation
-From authentic connections with other people
-Authentic experience (modern sterility, waste land)
-Comfort of conventions (religious, natural)
Fragmentation
Of the state, society, self
Experimental forms
Readers expected to learn a new language unique to each piece
What does the writer want to do to the reader?
Alienate and unsettle reader, defying expectations, shocking out of complacency
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