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Knut Hamsun's (1859–1952) Hunger
the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence on the darker side of a modern metropolis. Knut Hamsun's book is more modernist because of his anti English and ways of saying how he dislikes stuff. -
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American Gothic by: Grant Wood
this piece depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter – often mistakenly assumed to be his wife. The reason it was painted in 1930, when US artists were inspired to paint realist scenes of rural America during the Depression, which makes it modernist. -
Atsuko Tanaka
Atsuko Tanaka was a Japanese avant-garde artist best known for her Neo-Dada Electric Dress (1956), a garment made from hundreds of lightbulbs painted in primary colors. This iconic work, which she wore to exhibitions, functions as a conflation of Japanese traditional clothing with modern urbanization, bringing an unexpected and challenging interpretation to both. “I wanted to shatter stable beauty with my work,” Tanaka once said. -
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. -
