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Modern Humanities: CHAPTER 1: BIRTH OF MODERNISM AND THE MODERN WORLD (1900-1920’s)
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CHAPTER 1: BIRTH OF MODERNISM AND THE MODERN WORLD (1900-1920’s)
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CHAPTER 1: BIRTH OF MODERNISM AND THE MODERN WORLD (1900-1920’s)
1.1 Modernism
1.2 War & Revolution
1.3 The Freudian Revolution
1.4 Modern Art
1.5 Modernist Poetry
1.6 The Birth of Film
1.7 Modern Architecture
1.8 Music & Dance
CHAPTER 2: THE ROARING TWENTIES & THE GREAT FALL (1920’s-1945)
2.1 The Jazz Age
2.2 The Great Migration
2.3 The Harlem Renaissance
2.4 Modern Art
2.5 The Lost Generation
2.6 The Great Depression
2.7 The Mexican Muralist Movement
2.8 World War II
CHAPTER 3: THE SEARCH FOR MEANING & BEGINNING OF GLOBALISM (1945-1950’s)
3.1 The Cold War
3.2 Existentialism
3.3 Origins of Theater & Theater of the Absurd
3.4 Abstract Expressionism
CHAPTER 4: LIBERATION AND EQUALITY (1960-ONWARD)
4.1 Quest for Equality
4.2 The Civil Rights Movement
4.3 The Women’s Rights Movement
4.4 LGBTQIA+ History
4.5 The Vietnam War
4.6 Hippies and Counter Culture
4.7 Birth of Rock n’ Roll, Pop Culture & Mass Media
4.8 New Modern Art Movements
4.9 Metamodernism
4.10 Punk Rock Revolution
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CHAPTER 1: BIRTH OF MODERNISM AND THE MODERN WORLD (1900-1920’S)
Umberto Boccioni,
The Street Pavers
, 1914. Oil on Canvas. CC0.
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