Historical Context

modernism
modernization (industrialization, urbanizaton)
modern
modernist (post-modernist)
avant-garde

1877: Phonograph: (Edison’s first recording of the human voice)

1895: Wireless telegraphy; Marconi sends signal one mile

1895: Movie camera

1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière, L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station)

1899: Magnetic audio recording:

1899/1900: The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud (born 1856), follwed in 1901 by The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

1904: AFL founded (American Federation of Labor)

1905 IWW founded (International Workers of the World)





1906: Victrola introduced by Victor:

1907: Caruso first to sell one millions records

1907: Radio: first regular broadcasting around Edison Disc Phonograph 1911

1905: Einstein (born 1879), “Special Theory of Relativity;” 1915/16 “General Theory”

1907: telephone (invented 1897) was in 1 in 10 households / 1929: 7 in 10

1907: Les Demoiselles D’Avignon

1908:: Model T Ford

1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

1913: First skyscrapers – Woolworth Building (58 stories)

1911: Stein’s Tender Buttons

1912: Poetry ed. Harriet Monroe founded, Pound contributing

1913: Armory Show

1914 – World War I, U.S. enters 1917, ends 1918

Jacob Espstein, Rock Drill, 1913-1915

1916: Malevich, Suprematism

1917 – Russian Revolution

1920-1933 – Prohibition