Putting Modernism Together:: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist erawhich began roughly in 1872 with the Franco Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depressionthere was a special belligerence to this question. It was a cultural period that envisioned many different models of itself: to the Cubists, it looked like a vast jigsaw puzzle; to the