American Modernism：Background Definition Features（美国现代主义：背景定义特征）.pptVIP

Ernest Hemingway 《永别了，武器》 F. Scott Fitzgerald Thomas Sterns Eliot The Waste Land (1922) Ezra Pound The second Renaissance Background WW1 and its nicknames (Lost Generation) Features Representatives Radical 1930s I. Background Great Depression (1929-1933) A drought in the Great Plains (1933) II. Literature 1. Left-wing writing became the main stream of 1930s’ American literature. 2. Writers of the 1920s, like Eliot, were still writing. John Steinbeck 《人鼠之间》 Eliot: Ash Wednesday 《灰色星期三》 Murder in the Cathedral 《大教堂的谋杀案》 Hemingway For Whom The Bell Tolls 《丧钟为谁而鸣》 Faulkner As I Lay Dying, Light in August etc Katheleen Anne Porter “Flowering Judas”《开花的犹大树》 * * * * * * * * * * * * * a giant mechanical elephant. It is round and has a trunk-like hose protruding from it. The figures round body was modeled after a photograph in an anthropological journal of a clay corn bin from a southern Sudanese tribe, the . Celebes suggests ritual and totemic sculpture of African origin, evidenced by the totem-like pole at right and the figures bull horns.[2] The painting uniquely combines found imagery and tribal elements.[2] Ernsts creature has a frilly metallic cuff or collar, and a horned head and tail. The low horizon emphasizes the creatures bulk, and the gesture of the headless mannequin introduces the viewer to the figure. The mannequin wears a surgical glove, a common Surrealist symbol. This nude figure may have a mythological connotation, suggesting the abduction of Europa by Zeus while disguised as a bull.[3] The mostly empty sky contains more incongruities: there are two fish flying at left. The black shape to the right of the fish looks like an oncoming airplane, and there is a trail of smoke in the right part of the sky. These may be allusions to the mechanical terror of the war experience which led to Ernst writing, On the 1st of August 1914 Max Ernst died. He was resurrected on the 11 Novembe