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| rejection of the past, formalism, astheticism |
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| the bible of the bloomsbury group. created by G. E. Moore. the most important things in life are the contiplation of beautyful things and the enjoyment of personal friendships |
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| emphasizes the autonomy of art,and the importance of the artist |
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| bright color, no perspective, strong lines. ex. starry night by Van Gough |
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| Novels of Virginia Woolfe |
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| stream of coinciousness, taught no morals, did not follow traditional form |
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| Things Fall Apart by W.B. Yeats |
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| symbolism and cultrual pessimissim. believed that life was in 2000 year cycles and that this cycle was almost over. very spiritual |
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| minutes from a meeting with HItler. it details his beliefs in social darwinism and how the German race has no room to grow. |
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| Mussilini takes over land for hitler |
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| atrocities commited by the Japanese soldiers in WWII. it led to rape and cannibalism |
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| New economic poilciy (NEP) |
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| an economic policy in Russia that allowed free trade and went against the rules of communism |
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| Architecture under Stalin |
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| "seven sisters" all with spires on top. looked like wedding cakes |
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| planted all blame for WWI on Germany |
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| nationalism, imperialism, industrialization, fear of other nations, build up of armies, and expectation that war would be quick and decisive |
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| France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, US, Japan |
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| Germany, Austria Hungry, Ottoman empire |
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| The Waste Land by T.S.Elliot |
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| cultural pessimism, constructing usable history, symbolism, and formal and technical innovations |
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| use of flat color plans, erradic perspective, contrasting colors are symbolic, not natural |
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| Les Semoiselles d' aviognan |
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| pablo picasso. shows nude women with distorted geometric faces |
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| abstract images of the human form. juxtaposition of straight lines and sinuous curves, flat faces. ex Reliquary head |
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| breaks from the reniassance belief that art should follow nature. uses grid format, combines several perspectives and fuses image with surroundings. ex. "Violin and Candle stick" George Braque |
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| "Twighlight" George Grosz. shows a vetern begging from prominent business people |
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| Weimar Republic, Hyperinflation due to paying the damdges for the war, late industrialization allowed them to recover int he 20s |
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| great leadership, though not popular because associated with loss of the war. gave women the vote. not supported by upper and middle class, they supported facist government |
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| new nations acted as buffers from Russia, a lot of random ethnic mixing because of new borders drawn, rural poverty and over crowding due to Russian refugess. less advances in agriculture. |
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| democracy, colonialism, dependant on the US for balance of powers |
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| identify jews, deprive them from citizenship, makes intermarriage illegal, |
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| Night of broken glass. triggered by the assassination of Ernest Von Rampth, 91 jews killed, many more injured and deported. many synogoges were destroyed. |
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| first concentration camp in Poland |
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| freedom of the individual and corruptibility of the authorities, comparable to libertarians, right to vote on civil liberties, legal equalitiies, constitutional laws. |
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| autobiographic poem taalks about how nature (mt blanc) is disappointing when compared to the human imagination. artist is a lamp to nature showing his own genius. |
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| private land became communal with all peasants were togethre and making communal decisions. |
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| innovations from the industrail age in farming |
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| fodder crops and convertible husbandry |
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| new resources found during industrialization |
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| steam engine, spinning jenny, mules and the railroad |
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| a novel which showed machines taking over therefore creating the bannning of all technology. |
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| took place in the late 19th century |
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| new technologies of the imperialist period |
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| faster shipped because steam ships and canals, machine gun, quinine for malaria, telegraph line |
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| nationalism. news paper sturred the people for national pride. wanted to preserve and have prestige. they had colonial fever. |
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| started by nationalism and news paper. "to hell with spain remeber the maine" |
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| depicts modern life without political overtones, moves away from academic detailed style,short broken brush, emphisis on light |
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| focuses within naturalism in literature |
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| determinations like heredity, economic forces, natural/enviornmaental forces,the use of dialiects |
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