American modernism

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architectural movement art movement literary movement

American modernism is a 20th-century U.S. artistic and cultural movement characterized by abstraction, experimentation, and a break from traditional European forms in visual art, literature, architecture, and design.

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Label	Occurrences
American modernism canonical	24
American Modernism	1
American modern art	1
American modernist architecture movement	1
Anglo-American modernism	1
Anglo-American modernist writers	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architectural movement ⓘ art movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
aim	to break from traditional European forms ⓘ to create distinctly American forms of expression ⓘ to respond to modern industrial and urban life ⓘ
associatedWith	Bauhaus influence in America ⓘ International Style NERFINISHED ⓘ Little magazines ⓘ New York School NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	mid-20th century ⓘ
field	architecture ⓘ dance ⓘ design ⓘ literature ⓘ music ⓘ theater ⓘ visual art ⓘ
follows	19th-century realism ⓘ Gilded Age culture ⓘ Victorian art NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	abstraction ⓘ break with academic traditions ⓘ experimentation with form ⓘ focus on subjective experience ⓘ formal experimentation ⓘ fragmentation ⓘ interest in the unconscious ⓘ nonlinear narrative ⓘ rejection of traditional realism ⓘ self-reflexivity ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ
hasPart	American literary modernism ⓘ American modernist architecture ⓘ American modernist design ⓘ American modernist painting ⓘ
influencedBy	Cubism ⓘ European modernism ⓘ Fauvism NERFINISHED ⓘ Freudian psychoanalysis ⓘ Futurism NERFINISHED ⓘ Impressionism NERFINISHED ⓘ Post-Impressionism NERFINISHED ⓘ Symbolism NERFINISHED ⓘ World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ industrialization ⓘ the Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ the Harlem Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ the Jazz Age NERFINISHED ⓘ urbanization ⓘ
mainRegion	United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFigure	Charles Demuth NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Hemingway NERFINISHED ⓘ Ezra Pound NERFINISHED ⓘ F. Scott Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Lloyd Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgia O'Keeffe NERFINISHED ⓘ Gertrude Stein NERFINISHED ⓘ Langston Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Marianne Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Mies van der Rohe NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Loewy NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallace Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Gropius NERFINISHED ⓘ William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ Zora Neale Hurston NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	Abstract Expressionism NERFINISHED ⓘ American Regionalism NERFINISHED ⓘ Harlem Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ Precisionism NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	early 20th century ⓘ

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Charles Sheeler → movement → American modernism ⓘ

Charles Gwathmey → partOf → American modernism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American modernist architecture movement

Stuart Davis → movement → American modernism ⓘ

Peggy Bacon → movement → American modernism ⓘ

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Four Saints in Three Acts → associatedMovement → American modernism ⓘ

How to Write → movement → American modernism ⓘ

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"Blood-Burning Moon" → literaryMovement → American modernism ⓘ

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Maynard Dixon → movement → American modernism ⓘ

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this entity surface form: American modern art

Eugene Gant → literaryMovementContext → American modernism ⓘ

Des Imagistes → movementContext → American modernism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anglo-American modernism

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this entity surface form: Anglo-American modernist writers

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this entity surface form: American Modernism