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Realism 1850-1900

period characteristics:

1. Feelings of disillusionment.
2. Common subjects: slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians.
3. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (Regionalism).
4. Sought to explain behavior (psychologically/socially).

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Civil war 1861 - 1865

Reconstruction Era 1865 - 1877

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Realism movement, its focus was on portraying everyday life and its rejection of romantic idealism.

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Civil War
1861-1865

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Realist artists and writers aimed to represent subjects truthfully, even the unpleasant or mundane aspects of life, in contrast to the idealized depictions of Romanticism.

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Reconstruction Era
1865-1877

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Modernism
1900-1950

Period Characteristics: 1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, self-reliant, individual will triumph.
2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional.
3. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).

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World War I
1914-1918

The Great Depression
1929-1939

World War II
1939-1945

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the rejection of traditional artistic forms

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modernism

1920

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Emphasis on the individual's experience of the modern world. -Modernist art and literature often featured fragmented narratives, stream of consciousness and experimentation with form and style, reflected the upheaval and change of the era.

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Emphasis on Individual Experience

1930

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Harlem Renaissance
"The Jazz Age"
"The Roaring 20s"
1920–1940

1.Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York
2.Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos
3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms

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"The New Negro Movement"
1919-1925

Prohibition
1920-1933

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A vibrant period of African American artistic and intellectual creativity.

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Harlem Renaissance

1918

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The Renaissance is remembered for its significant impact on American culture, particularly in literature, music and art, showcasing the richness of black experience and challenged g prevailing stereotypes

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impacts the social consciousness

1937

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Contemporary "Postmodernism"
1950–present

1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology.
2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself.
3. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.

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Korean War
1950-1953

Vietnam War
1954-1975

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Postmodernism rejects universal truths, emphasizing that truth is contingent on context and perspective.

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postmodernism 1950 - 1960

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Postmodernism embraces fragmentation, blending styles and emphasizing that meaning is subjective, shaped by the artist, work, and viewer.

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embrace of fragmentation in postmodernism

1960s to the 1980s