1. Modernist Assault on Tradition

2. Medicine

3. Travel

4. Work load

5. Communication

6. 19th century London

7. Inventions

8. Inventions

9. Inventions

10. Inventions

11. Self destruction

12. End of 19th Century Relatively peaceful Contrast between rich and poor
Contrast between democracy and totalitarianism
Fight for supremacy

13. Great War

14. New Physics 200 years based on Newton’s Principia Two distinct realms
First law of motion
Second law of motion
Third law of motion
Two distinct realms
Atomic particles
Space

15. Atomic Particles & Space

16. Max Planck 1858-1947 Early work – thermodynamics & radiation processes
1900 – quanta
Bio

17. Albert Einstein
Biography
1916 – Theory of relativity

18. Werner Heisenberg
Position & Momentum = Uncertainty relation (1927)

19. Applications of New Physics
Practical
Technology
Atomics
Theoretical
Uncertainty
Inaccessible

20. 20th Century Poetry Change from 19th Century Style in 20th Century
Conceptual language
Abstraction
No fixed meter
Use of imagery

21. Ezra Pound 1885-1972 American Ex-patriot
Huge contributor to American poetry
Imagist Manifesto (1913)
Free verse rhythm
“Make it new”

22. Robert Frost 1874-1963 Popular & beloved poet Lyric Poetry Style
Metered verse
Plain speech

23. 20th Century Art

24. 19th Century Art

25. Impressionist Art

26. Modern Life & Art Industrialism New technology in art Avant garde
Stripped down style
Unconventional techniques

27. Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Major artist of 20th century Biography
Art described as overlapping periods

28. Blue Period
World of the poor
Melancholy

29. Rose Period 1905-6 Lighter palette & lyricism
Subject matter drawn from circus life

30. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

31. Cezanne

32. African Masks

33. Picasso, Les Demoiselle d’Avignon, 1907, Modern

34. Western Art

35. Cubism Geometric & abstract forms most important 1907-1914
Influential – Picasso & Braque
To 1912 – Analytical Cubism

36. Synthetic Cubism Second phase
Decorative shapes, stenciling, collage & brighter colors
Collage
Starts with Braque

37. Braques, Still Life on a Table, 1914, Synthetic Cubism

38. Picasso’s Guitar

39. Futurism “Make it new!” Technology & art combined
Founded in 1909 in Italy

40. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Futurist manifesto
Violence & conflict
Very aggressive & meant to inspire anger & controversy

41. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni
Speed & force

42. Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, Futurism

43. Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase #2, 1912, Modernism

44. Fauvism
Color has primacy
1905
Matisse – forerunner of movement

45. Madame Mattisse (the Green Line), 1905

46. Abstraction in Sculpture

47. Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1928, Abstract

48. 20th Century Architecture
2 new materials
Ferroconcrete
Cantilever

49. Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959 Unprecedented style
Combined steel & glass with aesthetics of Asian architecture

50. Prairie Style

51. Wright, Fallingwater, 1936-1939, Modern
More images

52. Bauhaus & International Style
Walter Gropius – 1918
Form follows function
Classical forms with no extraneous ornaments

53. Music 19th century example Radical changes in 20th Century
New Techniques
Polytonal
Atonal
Polyrhythmic

54. Arnold Schoenberg
Short statements of single extreme musical state
Opus 22

55. Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971 Biography Ballet composer
The Rite of Spring, 1913

56. Modern Dance

57. Vaslav Nijinsky 1888-1950 Choreographer & dancer
Sergei Diaghilev’s protégé
Controversial ballets

58. Martha Graham 1894-1991 Very influential
Created one of oldest dance troops in America
Biography