art and culture between the wars. entertainment 1. radio, thanks to guiglielmo marconi was in just...

Art and Culture Between the Wars

Entertainment• 1. Radio, thanks to Guiglielmo

Marconi was in just about every home by the end of the 1920s.

• 2. Birth of a Nation: First full length film-- in America. 40% of adults watched films by WWII.

• 3. Hitler used new media to indoctrinate Germans (cheap radios, Triumph of the Will, etc.)

• 4. Sports: First World Cup in 1930 (who won?)

• 5. Tourism• 6. Dopolavoro and Kraft durch

Freude as forms of totalitarian entertainment

Otto Dix, The War

Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas– Otto Dix

The Magdeburger Ehrenmal—Ernst Barlach

Dadaism--art of the absurd

Hugo Ball “Karawane”

Marcel Duchamp “Readymade Bicycle Wheel”

Man Ray “Indestructible Object”

Marcel Duchamp “L.H.O.O.Q.”

Marcel Duchamp “Fountain”

Surrealism

• Bout of Dadaism. • Surreal means beyond or above reality

• Surrealists tried to show things that were in the unconscious parts of our minds. Most surrealistic paintings seem dream-like or drug-induced. Note the influence of Freud and Jung.

Functional Art

• 1. Bauhaus.

Rene Magritte “Man in a Bowler Hat”

Salvador Dali “The Persistence of Memory”

Salvador Dali “The Temptation of St. Anthony”

A German Building—Walter Gropius

Wassily Chair—Marcel Breuer

Joan Miro “The Tilled Field”

Socialist realism--Art to Glorify the Soviet state

Science/physics

• 1 Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Ouch.

Daughter of Soviet Kyrgzia—Semyon Chuikov

Stalin—painter unknown

“For you the fatherland, our young hearts beat”--Polish Poster

Worker and Collective Farm Girl—Vera Mukhina

Psychology of Carl Jung

• Student of Freud who rejected some of his theories.

• Personal and collective unconscious

• Individuation: process by which an individual fully realizes himself.