Heritage Sectional Exam 6

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Phelan Family Art Center

Ved Bill Phelan

The good life

Ved Mijhael David Hansen Hansen

spaces of appearance

Ved Gary Schultz

MODERNISM

Ved Ilaria Meli

Heritage Sectional Exam 6 Late 1800's to the Present

Philosophy

Feminism

Pragmatism & Postmodernism

Meaningful Meaninglessness

Existentialism

Sammuel Beckett

Religion

Ghandi

The Shoah

Science

Physics

Einstein

Relativity

Quantum Mechanics

History

Globalization

Film

The 60's

The Cold War

World War II

The Great Depression

World War I

The Impact of the First World War

Impact of the war on thought

Loss of faith in progress

War, Nature, and the imagination

Total number of soldiers killed

36% of the young men aged 19-22

9 Million

The conduct of the first World War

1919

Treaty of Versailles blames Germany for the war and imposes harsh punishments

1917-18

The United States enters the War

War aims of President Woodrow Wilson: Idealism of 14 points and pragmatism of U.S. national interests

Idealism

U.S Contribution

manpower helps Allies in 1918 campaigns

Zimmerman Telegram, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Loans to Allies

1917

Allied demoralization, collapse, mutiny

British Anti-war sentiment

Wilfred Owen

How sweet and fitting to die for one's country

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

France: The Nevelle Offensive and the French Mutiny

Russian Revolution

Oct. 1917

Bolshevik Communist Revolution, led by V. I. Lenin

Feb. 1917

Tsar Nicholas II abdicates, Provisional Government installed

Industrial Warfare and the management of human resources

Colonial Contributions: Bodies and Resources

Bodies and minds pushed to the limit:

Trauma and Freudian Psychology

Manpower depletion: War of Attrition, Citizen Armies, "lads" battalions

New technologies: gas, artillery registration, tanks

The world at war

Italy, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East

The western front, 1914-17

Myth of stalemate, reality of small movement and technological and tactical innovation

1914

Battles for Belgium and France

New Rifles, Artillery, Machine-guns heavily favor defenders

The origins of WWI

Schieffen Plan, Belgium, British intervention

The Crisis of July 1914

Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, threats and mobilization

Alliance system, hasty decision making (influenced by communications technology), nationalism

Pre War Faith in Progress

Social and technological progress appeared to make war unlikely

Technological progress in early 20th century

radio

aircraft

mass production

petroleum

Automobiles

Doubts about progress?

Tolstoy's critique of modernity

The negative consequences of industrialization and free trade

Western Faith in Progress:

Nineteenth century liberals, Marxists, Imperialists

Literature

Latin American Literature

High Modernism

William Faulkner

The Early Modern in Literature

Joyce and Teats

Music

Jazz: American Creative Music

Miles Davis

"Bird" & "Diz"

Duke Ellington

New Orleans Jazz

Louis Armstrong

The Blues

Music after 1945

Postmodernsim

The Avant Garde

Experimentalism

Three Strains of Modernism

Schoenberg

Tewlve Tone System

Expressionism

Modernist Music before World War One

Literature and Art before World War One

Stravinsky

The Primacy of Rhythm

Debussy

Impressionism

Progress and Uncertainty

Modernism

All art from the past must be destroyed

Art

Contemporary Art

Modern Art in Europe and the United States (c. 1870-1965)

The Return to Painting Across the Atlantic: Post-war American Art

Action painting, Gesture painting, Abstract Expressionism

Pop

Neo Dada

Rethinking the Art Object: The Avant-Garde Challenge to Painting

Dali

Surrealist Found Object

Metaphys

Dadaism

Hannah Hoch

Cut with the Kitchen Knife

Raoul Hausmann

ABCD: Portrait of the Artist, 1923-4

Appropriation

LHOOQ, 1919

Rrose Selavy, 1919

Readymade

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain, 1917

The 20th Century and the Rejection of Naturalism: Expressionism vs. Formalism

Piet Mondrian

Broadway Boogie-Wogie, 1942-43

Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1921

Neoplasticism

De Stijl (Dutch for "The style")

Composition 10 in Black and White, 1915

Wassuky Kandinsky

Composition IV, 1911

Improvisation 28, 1912

Largely unconscious, spontaneous expressions of inner character, non-material in nature

Pablo Picasso

Guernica, 1937

Maquette for Guitar, 1912

Art is a lie that tells the truth

Collagee and Assemblage

Guitar, Sheet Music and Glass, 1912

Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912

Cubism

Gertrude Stein, 1906-7

the Influence of African Scpture on Cubism

The Family of Saltimbanques, 1905

The Old Guitarist, 1903

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

There is no such thing as abstract art, you must start with something

drinking turpentine and spitting fire

a field of broken glass

Portrait of Kahnweiler, 1910

Fauvism

Henri Matisse

Joy of Life, 1905-6

What I am after, above all, is expression. Expression, to my way of thinking, does not consist of the passion mirrored upon a human face or betrayed by a violent gesture. Thw whole arrangement of my picture is expressive.

Fauves=Wild Beasts

Mme. MAtisse (Green Stripe), 1905

Post Impressionism

Paul Cezanne

Boy in a Red Vest, 1888-90

Still Life with Plaster Cupid, c. 1895

Mont Ste. Victoire, 1904

see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone

Vincent Van Gogh

Self-Portrait, 1880s

Starry Night, 1889

Instead of trying to reproduce what I have before my eyes, Ise color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly

Foundations of Modern Art: Manet and the Painting of Modern Life

Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1880-81

Edouard Manet, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1873, cf. Monet