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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties. (1931), the first and still the most widely read survey of the era, complete text online free. Best, Gary Dean. The Dollar Decade: Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America. (2003). Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1990) Cohen, Lizabeth ...
Collectively, the artists of the New Deal produced a vast archive: Murals, including 1,100 post office murals , [6] free-standing and bas relief sculpture, an estimated 30,000 posters, [7] more than 700 books and pamphlets and radio scripts, [8] and architectural details for scores of public buildings, in a style now called WPA Moderne.
The most recent journal Past/Present: American Abstract Artists Members Honor Their Predecessors is a nostalgic look back where "current members were asked to write about a deceased member they admired or who had influenced them" examining their personal history. [44] American Abstract Artist produces print portfolios by its membership.
After World War I, the artists who had inhabited the guinguettes and cabarets of Montmartre invented post-Impressionism during the Belle Époque. In 1926, the facade of the Folies Bergère building was redone in Art Deco style by the artist Maurice Pico, adding it to the many Parisian theatres of the period in this architectural style. [6]
Great Depression The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century African-American artists and Category:20th-century American male artists and Category:20th-century Native American artists and Category:20th-century American women artists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
One of the most famous of the Depression-era productions of the Theater Project of the Works Progress Administration is a jazzed version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, called The Swing Mikado. [399] Adelina García begins recording and performing on the radio, soon becoming the most popular American singer of the Mexican bolero song. [117]
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...