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1 Art and Culture Between the Wars

2 Art as tool of the state -A continuation of WWI

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5 Entertainment 1. Radio, thanks to Guiglielmo Marconi was in just about every home by the end of the 1920s. 2. Birth of a Nation: First full length film-- in America. 40% of adults watched films by WWII. 3. Hitler used new media to indoctrinate Germans (cheap radios, Triumph of the Will, etc.) 4. Sports: First World Cup in 1930 (who won?) 5. Tourism 6. Dopolavoro and Kraft durch Freude as forms of totalitarian entertainment -Why? (Controls mind)

6 Otto Dix, The War

7 Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas– Otto Dix

8 The Magdeburger Ehrenmal— Ernst Barlach

9 Dadaism--art of the absurd

10 Hugo Ball “Karawane”

11 Marcel Duchamp “Readymade Bicycle Wheel”

12 Man Ray “Indestructible Object”

13 Marcel Duchamp “L.H.O.O.Q.”

14 Marcel Duchamp “Fountain”

15 Surrealism Bout of Dadaism. Surreal means beyond or above reality Surrealists tried to show things that were in the unconscious parts of our minds. Most surrealistic paintings seem dream-like or drug-induced. Note the influence of Freud and Jung.

16 Rene Magritte “Man in a Bowler Hat”

17 Salvador Dali “The Persistence of Memory”

18 Salvador Dali “The Temptation of St. Anthony”

19 Functional Art 1. Bauhaus.

20 A German Building—Walter Gropius

21 Wassily Chair—Marcel Breuer

22 Joan Miro “The Tilled Field”

23 Socialist realism--Art to Glorify the Soviet state

24 Daughter of Soviet Kyrgzia—Semyon Chuikov

25 Stalin—painter unknown

26 Worker and Collective Farm Girl— Vera Mukhina

27 “For you the fatherland, our young hearts beat ”-- Polish Poster

28 Psychology of Carl Jung Student of Freud who rejected some of his theories. Personal and collective unconscious Individuation: process by which an individual fully realizes himself.

29 Science/physics 1 Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Ouch.


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