The Remarkable 20th Century

After the turn of a century marked by mass innovations released more rapidly than any time period prior, the world's populous was anxious and impatient for what the next could bring, making way for economic, social, and scientific, political, and artistic cultures unparalleled by anything prior.

A decade significantly defined by what was then the most deathly and international war in human history, equivalent progressions were demanded by the times in parallel fields, such as art, philosophy and science, during years that necessitated perpetual improvements in all industries upstaged by the backdrop of a worldwide catastrophe.

In the 1920's, following the "War to End All Wars," countries that were already amid reforming their semblances of peacetime, found themselves confronted with the need to reinvent and solidify decidedly solidified cultural identities, from the way citizens dressed, to the way they shopped, to the places they traveled.

Following a seemingly worldwide regression, a decidedly active collective effort initiated to establish and balance the increasingly unpredictable nature of modernity. New world orders dominated what had otherwise been a static and (recently) stagnant global fluidity, instead opting for their idealistic visions of preferred ways of life.

A decade intrinsically linked to the infamous iconography that defined it, the 1940's have become almost synonymous with all things WWII and Holocaust-related, as these years saw the natural order of things reevaluate themselves and adapt to an era full of perpetually evolving complications in the eternal search for global peace.

With cultures and world identities solidifying themselves identifiers later recognized as staples of the times (and the countries) beginning to form, the 1950's became a widely identifiable starting point of what we now colloquially refer to as pop culture. With the new advent of mass media, mongered fears were able to spread about foreign ideals and plans to infiltrate one another's ways of life.