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30 Cards in this Set
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"New Women"
Age of Anxiety |
Independent Woman, work to get right to vote, being able to hold job, change in fashion, make-up, being able to smoke (cigarettes), and sex appeal
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Albert Einstein
Age of Anxiety |
Theory of special relativity - time & space are relative to the observer and that only the speed of light is constant.
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Beer Hall Putsch
Age of Anxiety |
Failed attempt at revolution when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler tried to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
Hitler spent 9 months in jail. Wrote "Mein Kampf." |
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Cubism
Age of Anxiety |
Characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract structures.
Concentrated on a geometry of zigzagging lines and sharply angled overlapping planes. |
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Dadaism
Age of Anxiety |
- Founded on principles of irrationality, incongruity, & irreverence towards accepted aesthetic criteria
- Attacked all familiar standards of art - delighted in outrageous behavior. - "Anti-Art" |
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Ego
Age of Anxiety |
Rational self that worked to negotiate between the demands of the id and the superego
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Existentialism
Age of Anxiety |
Analysis of existence and of the way humans find themselves existing in the world
Emphasized the loneliness and meaningless of human existence |
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Franz Kafka
Age of Anxiety |
- German-Jewish author
- Portrayed helpless individuals crushed by inexplicably hostile forces - ie: The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and The Metamorphosis (1915), |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age of Anxiety |
- German philosopher - attack on Enlightenment philosophies of progress, reason, democracy, rationality, and religion.
- Claimed the West was in decline, only a few superior individuals could liberate themselves from the humdrum thinking of the masses. |
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Functionalism
Age of Anxiety |
Belief that buildings and living spaces should be useful and “functional”, they should serve the purpose for which they were made.
Clean lines, efficient, No ornamentation |
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Id
Age of Anxiety |
Primitive irrational source of sexual, aggressive, pleasure-seeking instincts
Very amoral. |
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Igor Stravinsky
Age of Anxiety |
Russian born
Transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure, Rite of Spring (1913) |
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Impressionism
Age of Anxiety |
Early modernist movement based in Paris
Reproduce an impression of a subject by use of reflected light & color and the blurring of outlines ie: Monet, Degas, Cassatt |
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James Joyce
Age of Anxiety |
- Abandoned any sense of a conventional plot
- Broke all formal rules of grammar, included frank descriptions of the main character’s sexual thoughts, language - Was intended to mirror modern life - gigantic riddle to be unraveled. ie: "Ulysses" |
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age of Anxiety |
“Existence precedes essence,” = meaning that no God-given truths outside of individual existence.
Individuals define themselves through their actions |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
Age of Anxiety |
Fifteen nations agreed to “renounce war as an instrument of international policy.”
Lacked enforcement policies |
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Logical positivism
Age of Anxiety |
Belief = what we know about human life must be based on rational facts and direct observation
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Marie Curie
Pierre Curie Age of Anxiety |
Physicists
Atoms were not the basic building blocks of nature Radium emits subatomic particles and does not have a constant atomic weight. |
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New Deal
Age of Anxiety |
FDR's plan to combat the Great Depression
Gov't hired the unemployed |
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Popular Front
Age of Anxiety |
France
Alliance of Communist, Socialists, and Radicals formed in response to growing strength of fascists |
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Post-Expressionism
and Expressionism Age of Anxiety |
- Exaggerate for effect
- Express feeling & emotion directly by distorting forms, - Choosing violent subject matter & harsh colors, - Added a deep psychological element to impressionism. - - i.e.: Van Gogh, Klimt |
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Scandinavian Response
Age of Anxiety |
- Socialist Response
- Middle Ground between Communism & Capitalism, - Gov't Finance Publics Works - Increase Benefits & Pensions - Raising taxes on all |
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Sigmund Freud
Age of Anxiety |
Was an Austrian neurologist
Founded the discipline of psychoanalysis |
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age of Anxiety |
- Danish Christian theologian
- Criticized the worldliness of the church - Stressed a remote and majestic God, - Author of "Sickness unto Death" |
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Stream of Consciousness
Age of Anxiety |
Presents thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Relied on internal monologues to explore the psyche |
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Superego
Age of Anxiety |
Overly strict & irrational conscience of internalized voice of control that kept the id in check.
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Surrealism
Age of Anxiety |
- Portrayed images of the unconscious such as wild dreams and uncomfortable symbols.
- Producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations. - ie: Salvador Dali |
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The Dawes Plan
Age of Anxiety |
Reduced Germany reparations payments and linked them to German economic prosperity
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Triumph of the Will
Age of Anxiety |
1934 Nazi propaganda Fflm
Leni Riefenstahl directed |
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Walter Gropius
Age of Anxiety |
German architect
Founded the Bauhaus - an interdisciplinary school - pioneer new trends in modern architecture - stressed functionalism and good design |
