1. Learning Objective:
Today I will be able to evaluate changes in 20th century after WWI by analyzing literature & art.
Agenda
VICE: Hermit Kingdom
Learning Objective
Lecture Notes: Ch Postwar Art-Lit.
DBQs on LA Graffiti & NWA
DBQ
Exit Slip

2. Title Notes: Ch. 15.1 Postwar Art-Lit.
Existentialism
Exis-tent-all-ism
No universal meaning of life.
Each person creates his/her own meaning through their choices & actions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
1880, wrote that Western ideas (e.g. reason, democracy & progress) suppressed creativity.
His ideas made an impact on Italy & Germany in the 1920s-30s.

3. Poetry & Writing Changed to be more depressing & dark Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
TS Eliot
“waste land” poetry
“The Lost Generation”
Artist looking for meaning.

4. Art Expressionism: Distorted image & color to convey emotion
Paul Klee & Wassily Kandinsky
Composition VII, 1913, by Wassily Kandinsky. This Russian painter believed music could also be heard through art.
Affected Place, 1922, by Paul Klee, Swiss painter.

5. Cubism Natural shapes into geometric forms
George Braque & Pablo Picasso
Fruit on a Table-cloth with a Fruit Dish, 1925, by George Braque. The painting commemorates a banquet upon his return of war.
The Three Musicians, 1921, by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.

6. Surrealism Art movement to link world of dreams with real life.
Inspired by Sigmund Freud
Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory, 1931, by Spanish artist Salvador Dali.

7. Jazz in 1920s New popular music developed by African-Americans; jazz.
New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, & Harlem
Harlem Renaissance.
Cotton Club, jazz night club in Harlem.
Duke Ellington
“Jubilee Stomp”
Ella Fitzgerald
“Dream a Little Dream”
Louis Armstrong
“What a Wonderful World”
Jubille Stomp:
What a Wonderful World
Ella Fitzgerald

8. New roles of women: Women more independent Sought careers
Woman’s Suffrage: right to vote
New style: shorter hair & skirts
Rights for birth control
Margaret Sanger & Emma Goldman.

9. Technological Innovation
War medicine & tech. used.
Automobile improved
Lifestyles changed
More travel for pleasure
International air travel
Charles Lindbergh
1927, traveled across Atlantic Ocean alone for 33 hrs.
Radio & Movies
KDKA in Pittsburgh, 1st radio station
Most movies produced in Hollywood
Charles Chaplin, offered humor in a postwar depression.

10. New Revolution in Science
Albert Einstein
German-born
Theory of relativity
Time & space can change.
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychologist.
Theory that humans are irrational, which is the unconscious part of the mind.
Reason not always used.
Influenced surrealism.

11. LA Art District

12. LA Graffiti Document Based Questions
Describe the image.
(What do you see? What is going on? What colors are being used?)
What can you infer based on what you see? (What seems to be the message? What is it representing? What does it say about what is going on in the world?)
How might this image reflect ongoing issues and events in its context?
(What general problems or events does the image represent at the time it was created?)

15. "Fuck The Police" [MC Ren as Court Officer] Right about now, N. W. A
"Fuck The Police" [MC Ren as Court Officer] Right about now, N.W.A. court is in full effect Judge Dre presiding In the case of N.W.A. vs. the Police Department; prosecuting attorney's are: MC Ren, Ice Cube, and Eazy-motherfucking-E [Dr. Dre as The Judge] Order, order, order Ice Cube, take the motherfucking stand Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help your black ass? [Ice Cube as Witness] You god damn right!
[Dr. Dre] Well won't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say? [Ice Cube] Fuck the police coming straight from the underground A young nigga got it bad cause I'm brown And not the other color so police think they have the authority to kill a minority Fuck that shit, cause I ain't the one for a punk motherfucker with a badge and a gun to be beating on, and thrown in jail We can go toe to toe in the middle of a cell Fucking with me cause I'm a teenager with a little bit of gold and a pager Searching my car, looking for the product Thinking every nigga is selling narcotics

16. NWA Document Based Questions
What seems to be the narrator’s attitude toward occurring issues or events in its context?
How would you describe the overall mood of the lyrics?

17. DBQ-Document Based Questions
INSTRUCTIONS: Analyze text & images by answering the Document Based Questions.
Image: Search online for ONE image created by one of the following artists:
Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali.
Text: Open textbook to page 464 and read the Primary Source in the Analyzing Primary Sources box.

18. Exit Slip
What other forms of arts or social media are used today? How do they reflect current issues or events?
Sentence Starter:
One new form of art used today is ___________ and sometimes it represents issues or events like _______________.