Gertrude Stein - "Lost Generation"
Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), was an American writer, famous for her literary and artistic judgments, and her home in Paris that was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between WW I and II. Many of those were middle-age American writers whose values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and she started to call them "Lost Generation".
F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby (1925) was Fitzgerald's most brilliant novel. It is widely regarded as a literary classic and the most profoundly American novel of its time.
Ernest Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1929, and his first best-seller. The novel relates a love story during the WWI.
Eric Kennington- Gassed and Wounded
Gassed and Wounded (1917) was one of the many artworks of Eric, an official war artist in WWI and II. The picture, painted during the bombardment that preceded the 1918 German offensive, portrays a field hospital showing gassed and wounded soldiers lying on stretchers.
Pablo Picasso - Cubism
The famous Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, was the pioneer of Cubism, a revolutionary style of modern art that challenged conventional, realistic forms of art at the beginning of the 20th century.
Andre Breton - Surrealism
André Breton, a French poet and writer, is considered the founder of Surrealism, a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, characterized for its visual artworks and writings.
