In what way did the serious art and literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries function as social criticism? what were these artists and writers criticizing?

Art: Realism; Ashcan school:

portraying the working conditions of lower class workers.

Literature: Horatio Alger, Mark Twain.

Naturalism, Common Men, And symbolism.

Colorful characters chased futile dreams, irony and humor to criticize upper-class ignorance, common speech to glorify the midwest.

Explanation:

it further strained relations between the north and the south and convinced

your answer is 1930's

explanation

this is just around the time the great depression was starting and putting the us ecnomy into ecnomic failure causing the goverment to take a much larger rule to try and pieace it back together