Late 19th 20th Century Thought

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Late 19th -20th Century Thought
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Art Culture of the 20th Century

• Artists and Styles Reflect influence of science
  and psychology
• Physics Impressionism
• The Irrational Post Impressionists
• Beyond Modern Abstract
• Music expresses times-Jazz, Modern Classical,
  popular styles swing to rock

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Sigmund Freud 1856-1939

• Revolution in Mans view of Man
• Psychoanalysis-id,ego,superego explain mans
  inner life mental illness
• ?

Super ego
Ego
ID
Pleasure Principle----------Importance of Sex
Drive
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Psychology Physics Change Beliefs

• Sigmund Freud Web Investigation
• Place in History
• http//lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/
• Chronology
• http//freud.t0.or.at/freud/index-e.htm
• Theory of Dreams
• http//www.freud.org.uk/Theory1.html
• Interpret Dreams
• http//www.freud.org.uk/indexdream.html

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Social Scientists/Philosophers

• Nietzsche 1844-1900 God is Dead ,
  anti-democratic, pro superman
• Sorel1817-1922 -political possibilities of
  irrational, violent achievement of an elite
  socialism
• Existentialists We are alone, no certainties,
  how do we choose to face aloneness
• anti-religion --New movements

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Albert Einstein 1879-1955

• The new physics search for unifying theory
• Theory of Relativity motion time relative to
  observer
• EMC2 base for atomic energy
• Most Important part of thinking imagination
• History- Am Society of Physics
• http//www.aip.org/history/einstein/

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Literature Explores Meaning of Modern Life

• Uncertainty, Inwardness, Futility
• Dostoevsky Crime Punishment
• http//www.ccel.org/d/dostoevsky/crime/crime.txt
• Franz Kafka The Trial
• http//www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm
• Eliot The Wasteland
• http//eliotswasteland.tripod.com/
  

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Modern Music
http//www.ipl.org/exhibit/mushist/twen

• From Romanticism, music turned to form,
  minimalist structure, atonal works and moved away
  from the classic structures.
• Wagner marked both height end of Romanticism
• Popular Music halls reached a wider audience
• Impressionism Du Bussy( works from poems)
• Folk Music as a source Dvorak, Greig, Stravinsky
• Jazz as international medium
• Schönberg 's atonal compositions are "abstract"
• Radio Movies add to new "popular" music

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Impressionists Light Beyond

• From Romanticism Realism to Impressions
• En Pleine Aire the science of light
• Impressionism, Pointillism
• Post Impressionism Exotic style
• Art Nouveau Decoration
• Primitivism
• Cubism, Dada,Surrealism

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Web Examples

• ART LINKS DOCUMENT
• WEB Page art links http//phoenix.marymount.ed
  u/mzamon/resources.html

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Review and Explore

• Go to our web page check links in the section
  for the 20th Century presentation
• Textbook and Perry have additional sources. Perry
  Ch 10, Text, Ch 24, section1, Ch 26, section 5
• An art review will be offered before the final
  exam- watch for announcements