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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Art. Study the seven paintings and two photographs presented here, created between 1922 and 1929. All are modernist works; six are precisionist. For most, you are directed to museum websites that provide discussion and zoomable images. Complete the chart, New York City in Visual Art of the 1920s, as you study the works.
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1920s, 1920s art, 1920s history, 1920s photographer, modern city, modernist, modernist art, modernist artist, precisionist, precisionist art, 1920s america, american modernism, bartram hartman, charles sheeler, edward hopper, edward steichen, florine stettheimer, georgia o’keeffe, louis lozowick, martin lewis, national humanities center, new york city history, walker evans, primary source
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