Art and Culture Between the Wars. Entertainment 1. Radio, thanks to Guiglielmo Marconi was in just...
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Art and Culture Between the Wars
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
Otto Dix, The War
Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas– Otto Dix
The Magdeburger Ehrenmal—Ernst Barlach
Dadaism--art of the absurd
Hugo Ball “Karawane”
Marcel Duchamp “Readymade Bicycle Wheel”
Man Ray “Indestructible Object”
Marcel Duchamp “L.H.O.O.Q.”
Marcel Duchamp “Fountain”
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.
Functional Art
• 1. Bauhaus.
Rene Magritte “Man in a Bowler Hat”
Salvador Dali “The Persistence of Memory”
Salvador Dali “The Temptation of St. Anthony”
A German Building—Walter Gropius
Wassily Chair—Marcel Breuer
Joan Miro “The Tilled Field”
Socialist realism--Art to Glorify the Soviet state
Science/physics
• 1 Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Ouch.
Daughter of Soviet Kyrgzia—Semyon Chuikov
Stalin—painter unknown
“For you the fatherland, our young hearts beat”--Polish Poster
Worker and Collective Farm Girl—Vera Mukhina
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.