When the World Broke in Two: the Roaring Twenties and the Dawn of America's Culture Wars by 
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Power, prosperity & promise : a history of the USA 1898-1941 by
1. Migration, westward expansion, manifest destiny and the end of the era of the frontier -- 2. The Spanish-American War, diplomacy and expansion -- 3. Industrial growth, consumerism and migration in the development of American society and the economy -- 4. Class divisions in American society and their social and political implications up to the 1920s -- 5. Race relations during the progressive era, 1898-1917 -- 6. The development of isolationism in foreign policy in the 1920s and its domestic implications -- 7. Growth of social conservatism, anti-communism and welfare policies during the 1920s and the 1930s -- 8. Growth of racial tension and violence and its impact on the north and the south -- 9. Implications of the jazz age -- 10. The prohibition era (1920-1933), its impact on American society, and the growing influence of gangsters -- 11. The role and importance of Hollywood and the americanisation of global culture -- 12. The aims and application of the first and second New Deals -- 13. The New Deal policies and opposition to them -- 14. The arrogance of power : William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) -- 15. The arrogance of power : John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972).
The U.S.A. 1900 - 1945 by
Introduction – 1. Making Modern America: 1870-1919 – 2. A Golden Age? – 3. Not so Jazzy: 1919-1929 – 4. The Great Depression: 1929-1941 – 5. The Four Freedoms: Second World War, 1941-194
Breaking Through by 
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The Great Gatsby by
The Great Gatsby captures all the romance and glitter of the Jazz Age in its portrayal of a young man and his tragic search for love and success. It is a rare combination: a literary masterpiece - and one of the most popular novels of our time.
Kandinsky by
Kandinsky's beginnings: "Mother Moscow" 1866-1896 -- Metemorphosis: Kandinsky in Munich 1896-1911 -- Breakthrough to the abstract: "Der Blaue Reiter" 1911-1914 -- Russian intermezzo 1914-1921 -- Point and line to plane: Kandinsky at the Bauhaus 1922-1933 -- Biomorphic abstraction: Kandinsky in PAris 1934-1944 -- Picture analysis: Red spot II -- Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944: a chronology.
Surrealism by
A new declaration of the rights of man -- Concrete sculpture / Hans Arp -- The doll / Hans Bellmer -- The image as produced by automatic writing / Brassaï -- Mystery and melancholy of a street ; The disquieting muses / Giorgio de Chirico -- The enigma of desire, my mother, my mother, my mother ; The persistence of memory ; Soft construction with boiled beans (Premonition of Civil War) ; Giraffe on fire ; Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before waking up / Salvador Dalí -- Dawn over the city / Paul Delvaux -- Approaching puberty or The pleiades ; The elephant of Celebes ; Loplop presents a flower or Anthropomorphic figure with shell flower ; The king playing with the queen / Max Ernst -- Man and woman / Alberto Giacometti -- Room perspective with inhabitants, 1921, 24 / Paul Klee -- The jungle / Wilfredo Lam -- The key to dreams ; The door to freedom ; Time transfixed ; The empire of lights / René Magritte -- The villagers / André Masson -- Year 44 / Matta -- Stars in the sexual organs of snails ; Collage ; Woman / Joan Miró -- Fur breakfast / Meret Oppenheim -- Composition with glove ; Woman in a red armchair ; Corrida ; Woman with foliage / Pablo Picasso -- Le violon d'Ingres / Man Ray -- The dark garden ; Day of slowness / Yves Tanguy.
Art since 1900 : modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism by
Arguably the four most important and influential art historians of our time, Foster, Krauss, Bois and Buchloh have collectively transformed the study of modern art. Now, in this extraordinary book, they have come together to provide the most comprehensive critical history of art in the twentieth and early twenty-first
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What Were the Roaring Twenties? by
Flappers, flag-pole sitting, and the Ford Model T--these are just a few of the things that instantly conjure up a unique era--the Roaring Twenties. It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're not familiar with 1920s slang, all the more reason to read this fascinating look at that wild, exciting decade. It began on the heels of one tragedy--the flu pandemic of 1918--and ended with another: the start of the Great Depression. But in between there were plenty of good times--the Model T cars that Henry Ford made were cheap enough for the masses, the new sound of jazz heated up speakeasies and nightclubs during the time of Prohibition. Women, recently given the right to vote, cut their long hair into bobs, wore short skirts and makeup, and danced the Charleston (sometimes in marathons that lasted days). Michele Mortlock hits all the highlights of this heady age that still feels modern even a hundred years later."--Provided by publisher.
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Jean Toomer, Cane (1923)
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues (1926)
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)
