New York Modern

Harvard FAS

In the twentieth century, New York City found itself doubly modern, at once a center of global capital and the epicenter of modernist artistic movements. This class explores the literary, artistic, and intellectual life of this American metropolis against the backdrop of expanding mass culture and turbulent political and economic developments. How did fiction, film, and visual and performing art create community and belonging amidst urban alienation? And how did New York become the center of…