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Cultural and Intellectual Influences
1750-1914
Transformations
Developments in science and the artsConsumer emphasis
Advances in Scientific Knowledge
Science and intellectual movements attempt to explain realityTraditions of rationalismDarwin’s evolutionary theoryEinstein’s theory of physical relativityFreud’s psychoanalysis
Advances in Medicine
Concern with the well-being of society1877 sewer systemsLouis Pasteur (1822-1895)Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
Artistic Expression
Romanticism Emotion and
impressionism keys to understanding human experience
Split between Romanticism and rationalism caused much debate
Science supported the industrial order
Artists followed experimental paths
No synthesis in the 19th century
Art and Literature
RealismReaction to
RomanticismBased on scientific
and rationalist thought Charles Dickens Mark Twain
Photography
Art and Literature-Realism
African and Asian Influence
Europeans took notice of African and Asian artistic styles admired dramatic, spare
style of traditional West African sculpture, wood, and metalwork
Use of color and stylized forms of design in Japan
Impressionists Simple themes in nature Free of traditional
constraints
Cultural Japan
Heavily influenced by the west Literature based on
European models Architecture and artists
create large building of steel
Greek columns Western fashion and
hairstyles Japan still preserved it’s
own values
Cultural Japan
Heavily influenced by the west Literature based on
European models Architecture and artists
create large building of steel
Greek columns Western fashion and
hairstyles Japan still preserved it’s
own values
Leisure and Consumption
Higher wages and fewer working hours New opportunities
Middle class values Pleasure is a legitimate
part of life
Consumption had to be encouraged
Field of advertising communicated sense of “needing things”
Popular “crazes” The bicycle Popular newspapers Theaters Professional sports
The End