USM Open Source History Text: The World at War: World History 1914-1945Main MenuIntroduction: A Mural as WindowOn Diego Rivera's Detroit IndustryThe World Around 1914, Part I: the Journey of Young GandhiThe World Around 1914, Part II: The Era of Nationalism and Imperialism (1848-1914)The First World WarThe Long Russian Revolution (1917 – 1929)The Decline of the West? Europe from 1919 – 1929A New Middle East: The Rise of the Middle East State SystemChina Between Qing Collapse and WWIILatin America Between Boom and Bust (1911-1929)Africa Under Colonial Rule: Politics and Race from 1914‐1939The United States from The First World War to the Great DepressionThe Great DepressionThree Varieties of Radicalism in the 1930s: Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Imperial JapanThree Responses to Modernity: Ho Chi Minh, Ibn Saud, and Getulio VargasThe Second World WarSeth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c
Flourishing of Arts in Europe between 1919 and 1929
12017-06-19T21:49:57-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c192373gallery2017-08-16T22:04:27-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929cIf nationalism, communism and authoritarianism dominated the political sphere in Europe during the 1920s, it could well be argued that the literary and artistic sphere in Europe experienced its most democratic, its most individualistic and flourishing era of all time. It is impossible to give a full account of Europe’s artistic and literary movements of this era. It was a time full of famous –isms: Dadaism, expressionism, surrealism, Cubism, (though this began shortly before WWI) and futurism. Architecture saw the rise of a radical new style in Bauhaus form and design, which influenced furniture design, household objects, and eventually whole planned communities and industrial complexes. In the 1920s, Sigmund Freud continued to write works of psychoanalysis, Albert Einstein revolutionized science, and Martin Heidegger launched a philosophical revolution based on principles of subjective "being." In Paris, the world’s most gifted artists and writers met in cafes, exchanged ideas, displayed works in galleries and museums. The names are well known by now: Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, Svevo, Mann, Stein, Miro, Dali, Malevich, Chagall, Eliot, Pound, Woolf – just to name a few. We focus on three artistic figures of the period, British writer Virginia Woolf, Spanish painter Salvador Dali, and German poet and writer Ernst Jünger.
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12017-08-16T21:29:13-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929cOtto Dix, The Skat Players (1920)Seth Rogoff1Otto Dix (1891-1969) was one of the most important artists of the Dada and Neue Sachlichkeit [New Objectivity] movements. Wounded and crippled World War I veterans are a recurring theme in his work. The card players, fitted with prosthetic arms and legs, depict the German elite during the Weimar era. On the right, the soldier endowed with the Iron Cross First Class embodies the military. His earless opponent directly opposite represents finance and capitalism, while the middle figure symbolizes the “old” aristocracy. The prosthesis and sensory support apparatus represent the “cyborgization” of humanity through faith in technology and progress; at the same time, they are also a direct critique of it. Skat, a card game that was especially popular among conservatives in Germany, was also played by soldiers in the trenches during World War I. http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4212plain2017-08-16T21:29:13-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c
12017-08-16T21:46:26-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929cLászló Moholy-Nagy, 7 a.m. New Year's Morning (c. 1930)Seth Rogoff1László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a versatile and prolific artist who at various times worked in painting, sculpture, architecture, typography, photography and film. This photograph titled “New Year’s Morning” is a study in in geometry and light, of lines and shadows. http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4221plain2017-08-16T21:46:26-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c
12017-08-16T21:48:26-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929cPaul Klee, Red Balloon (1922)Seth Rogoff1plain2017-08-16T21:48:26-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c
12017-08-16T21:54:27-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929cVassily Kandinsky, Soft Hard (1927)Seth Rogoff1plain2017-08-16T21:54:27-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c
12017-08-16T21:27:56-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929cHannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany (1919)Seth Rogoff1Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was a member of the Berlin Dada movement and developed the art of photomontage. This work was made from images cut and pasted from the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung and other periodicals. Pulsing, chaotic, and bursting with Dada energy, it is populated with well-known faces of the day – the recently abdicated Wilhelm II, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, President Friedrich Ebert, as well as circus performers, athletes, actresses, and Hannah Höch herself – all floating among the gears and ball-bearings of industrial production. It has become one of the most recognized artworks of the Dada movement. http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4209plain2017-08-16T21:27:56-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c
