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Modernism Modernism Senior Scholars: Interwar Europe: • Rapid advance of industrialization • Trended in one of two directions • Rapid urbanization – Expressionism to Dadaism and Surrealism Working Out Modernity – Streamlined decorativity of Art Deco in the Midst of Crisis • Reaction to horrors of World War I • Rejection of historical forms • Rejection of Enlightenment certainties Fall 2019 Prof. Kenneth F. Ledford • Rejected faith in bourgeois-liberal notion of progress [email protected] 368-4144
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Expressionism
• Painting
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Expressionism
• Sculpture
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Expressionism
• Architecture
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Art Deco
• Architecture
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Art Deco
• Design
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Expressionism
• Theater
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Film
• Expressionism
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Film
• Noir
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Surrealism
• Expressionism plus absurdity
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Bauhaus
• Neue Sachlichkeit – New Objectivity • Weimar • Dessau • Berlin • “International Style” • Walter Gropius
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Popular Culture
• Cabaret
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Popular Culture
• Admiralspalast
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Fashion and Gender Roles
• Women in particular rapidly cast aside old strictures
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Fascist Modernism
• Autobahn
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Economic Recovery Economic Recovery
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Economic Recovery
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Economic Recovery
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Fascist Modernism
• Sculpture
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Reactionary Modernism
• Mixture of vast enthusiasm for modern technology with rejection of Enlightenment and the values and institutions of liberal democracy • Jeffrey Herf • Alternative modernism • Neutrality of technology
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Degenerate Art
• “Entartete Kunst” • Munich 1938 • Embracing modernist form in attack on modernism
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Nazi Art
• Modernist in form, authoritarian in size and intent
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