... . It completely changed the way artist used form, style, content, genre, expression, etc. The artists' work reflected their Crisis of Belief, the pervasive sense of loss, disillusionment, and even despair in the wake of the Great War; and their subsequent reaction to it, the need to break with the structure that brought about it. In the case of Yeats, he opted for an ... does Howe foreground about Modernism in his article "The Invention of the New "? Response Modern distinguishes from contemporary in that the latter refers to time, while the former refers to sensibility and style. Modern...

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... expression. Pop Art was the imagery of middle-class culture repurposed. "It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post-war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's" (Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture). The term was coined in Great Britain, where the Pop Art movement originated during a time of great economic distress. A group ... British artists called the "Independent Group" began to assign romanticized images of American culture and lifestyle as a sort of commentary about their own society and its dire state of affairs. They viewed the alluring...

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