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  1. Characteristics of the Age of Anxiety: Late Modernism

  2. From a European to a World Civilization
    1. The era of the superpowers, 1945-1970
      1. Postwar recovery and the new world order
          2. a)   Divisions and alliances in Western Europe and around the globe
          b)   The Soviet Union
          c)   The United States
      2. The cold war
          3. a)   Division of East and West in Europe
          b)   Spreads to other parts of world
          c)   Military conflicts and international tensions
      3. Emergence of the Third World
          4. a)   The end of colonialism
          b)   New states and new economic systems
      4. Mass Culture

  3. The End of Modernism
    1. Philosophy and Religion
      1. Existentialism
      2. Neo-orthodoxy
      3. Second Vatican Council
    2. Political and Social Movements
      1. Structuralism
      2. Feminism
      3. Black consciousness movement
    3. Science and technology
      1. Transistors
      2. Atomic energy
      3. "Space race"
    4. Medicine
      1. Medical discoveries
      2. Advances in the biological sciences
    5. The literature of Late Modernism: fiction, poetry, and drama
      1. Fiction
          2. a)   Existentialist writings
            (1)   Sartre
            (2)   Camus
          b)   Black literature
            (1)   Wright
            (2)   Baldwin
          c)   The novel and other literary forms
            (1)   Mailer
            (2)   Lessing
            (3)   Solzhenitsyn
      2. Poetry
          3. a)   Thomas
          b)   Ginsberg
      3. Drama
          4. a)   Beckett
          b)   Ionesco
          c)   Miller
          d)   Osborne
          e)   Williams
    6. Late Modernism and the arts
      1. Painting
          2. a)   Pollock
          b)   de Kooning
          c)   Rothko
          d)   Frankenthaler
          e)   Stella
          f)   Johns
          g)   Rauschenberg
          h)   Warhol
          i)   Riley
      2. Sculpture
          3. a)   Moore
          b)   Smith
          c)   Nevelson
          d)   Hesse
          e)   Segal
          f)   Oldenburg
          g)   Beuys
      3. Architecture
          4. a)   Saarinen
          b)   Mies van der Rohe
    7. Happenings
    8. Late Modern music
      1. Stravinsky
      2. Penderecki
      3. Cage
    9. Film
      1. Global cinema
          2. a)   Italy
          b)   Japan
          c)   France
          d)   Sweden
      2. Documentaries
      3. Film festivals

  4. The Legacy of the Age of Anxiety and Later Modernism






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