1914 - 1929 The Modernist World Jump to:
1914 - 1929 The Modernist World Jump to:
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Whatever else called itself "modernist" in the first quarter of the 20th century - painting, architecture, literature - the great popular apostle of modernism was advertising. Read More
Population changes are being paralleled by functional shifts within society, which are likewise reflecting themselves upon the family. Most important of these is the rise of individualism. Read More
By 1920 the Saturday Evening Post had a circulation of over two millions copies a week, and, with its mixture of fiction, current affairs and biographies of public figures, was staple reading for the American middle-class family.
A newer, brasher style of magazine appeared in 1920's. The magazine equivalent of the tabloid dailies, True Story and its imitators found a new audience of young, working-class women eager for advice and reassurance. Every story had to be written in the first person in simple, homely language, and preach a strong moral lesson. Read More
By 1920 the Saturday Evening Post had a circulation of over two millions copies a week, and, with its mixture of fiction, current affairs and biographies of public figures, was staple reading for the American middle-class family.
A newer, brasher style of magazine appeared in 1920's. The magazine equivalent of the tabloid dailies, True Story and its imitators found a new audience of young, working-class women eager for advice and reassurance. Every story had to be written in the first person in simple, homely language, and preach a strong moral lesson. Read More
Throughout all of Europe and the United States, changes in work patterns and new expectations of leisure in the interwar period fueled a demand far leisure that manifested itself in a growing variety of sporting activities. More people had more time for leisure, which was increasingly viewed as something they had a right to enjoy. Read More
Few adults found themselves able or willing to play football. Although teams made up of former college players were for a time quite active, the game was primarily for boys. But many were glad to watch so exciting a sport. Its dependence upon brute force satisfied atavistic instincts as could no other modern spectacle except the prize-fight. Baseball had become the national game because so many people played it as well as watched it. Football was destined from the first to be primarily a spectator sport. Read More
Women in sport in the interwar period, the sport of lawn tennis proved to be a platform for female achievement.
Suzanne Lenglen dominated the game from 1919 to 1926, and redefined what could be achieved by women. One historian said of her: "Her gifts were supreme. Her biting accuracy, coupled with divine balletic grace, dominated the game for so long without real challenge, that her immortality is unquestioned." Read More
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