WW2 Pre and Post Art Styles - Take Home Essay #3

Daniel Contreras
Professor Jim Entz
Modern Art History 6-9pm
May 11, 2011
A Shifting Society
The “Roaring 1920’s” was famous for its booming economic prosperity, new inventions, and laissez-faire environment. This flourishing era is captured in photographer James Van Der Zee’s image titled “Portrait of Couple, Man with a Walking Stick”



Works Cited
Adams, Laurie. "Mid-Century Abstraction." Art across Time. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. 897-903. Print.

















Interesting Links:

Regionalism:
http://layersofmeaning.org/archives/000246.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ8Ms6boCco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG63DJOVGG8
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Religious_symbolism_in_'American_Gothic'_painting


Abstract Expressionism:
http://blanchardmodernart.blogspot.com/2010/12/world-war-ii-and-abstract-expressionism.html

http://daphne.palomar.edu/mhudelson/StudyGuides/20thCentLate_WA.html

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