In the 1920s, transatlantic encounters between the USA and Europe redefined what it truly meant to be modern. These encounters encompassed numerous sociopolitical and cultural phenomena such as “Americanism,” Hollywood, jazz, Fordism, Taylorism, and the machine age, all intricately interwoven in a complex network of mutual influences. *Modern Times* shows that the European “-isms” — Futurism, Purism, Dada, Poetism, and Constructivism — were also closely interlinked with these phenomena, which shaped the decade of the “Roaring Twenties.”
In the 1920s, transatlantic encounters between the USA and Europe redefined what it truly meant to be modern. These encounters encompassed numerous sociopolitical and cultural phenomena such as “Americanism,” Hollywood, jazz, Fordism, Taylorism, and the machine age, all intricately interwoven in a complex network of mutual influences. *Modern Times* shows that the European “-isms” — Futurism, Purism, Dada, Poetism, and Constructivism — were also closely interlinked with these phenomena, which shaped the decade of the “Roaring Twenties.”
Przemyslaw Strozek, scholar and curator at the Archive of the Avant-Garde. Jed Rasul, avant-garde researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Georgia. Jennifer J. Wild, film historian, teaches at the University of Southern California. Meghan Forbes, independent scholar researching Eastern European avant-gardes.
Modern Times: The American Dream and the Avant-Gardes of the 1920s
11 April – 10 August 2025
Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
