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43 Cards in this Set
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Colonialism
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Controlling another part of the country, system by which one country takes over another for own economic benefits; getting goods for CHEAP; captive market- sell products and goods for a high rate
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Imperialism
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From imperial power; logic's of industrialism start to make factories dismal; critics write books
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Karl Marx
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One of the fathers of econ; Politics is about economics; capitalism only works by increasing profits; costs always have to go down and profits always have to rise or you will get our competed; capital only works through competition; crisis point- working class will lead revolution
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Nationalism (what Marx said...)
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Nationalism is way for capitalists to fool working class; WW1 collapes idea of internationale (all nations work together)
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Romantics
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Nature; Perfection; Hero
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Realists
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Try to capture human life as it is; Charles Dickens- focus on underdog
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Kate Chopin's Story of an Hour (realism)
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Realization that a woman does not need a man, a woman wants independence; realists focused on women b/c women were trapped by force and could never express themselves; realists thought this was a way to explain how society changes/limits us
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Photography, How it changed the World (Realist)
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Photography captured the world and life, it was more perfect then the most skilled artists so artists had to redefine the purpose of art. It challenged what artists had thought of themselves; used as a tool for criminology; provided an ordinary person with a picture
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Manet, Olympia (Realist)
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The woman is real and the setting is real, She is not perfect- it challenges the previous years of art saying woman had to be perfect,isn't shy/modest; Art is supposed to make you think- photography can't do that.
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Impressionism
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Not perfect llines/colors; all about color to convey emotion; capture impression something makes on the artist, light/shadows
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Renoir, Cafe Dancing (Impressionism)
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Captures sensation, light
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Monet, The Water Lillys (Impressionism)
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light/shadows, purple waters, lines blend
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Post Impressionism
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Darker human emotion with techniques of impressionism. Explore the deep and darker information
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Socialism
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Equality; based on class conflict; people who do not have money rise up in revolution, gov't in hands of working class
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Liberalism
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Right to private property; NO REVOLUTION (small changes, reforming society); govt needs checks and balances to protect rights of people
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Modernism
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Rejected the past and its' achievements; what matters is now and the future- creates new values; rejects beauty
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Dr. Freud
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Ego-voice of conscience mind, balance between superego and id
Superego- voice of society, controls id Id- unconscience part of mond, just wants animal pleasures satisfied (hunger, sex) Conflict and violence is inevitable; we can not get rid of desire, most actions are subconscience |
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Edipist Complex (Dr. Freud)
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Little boy having sexual thoughts about his mom; infant sexuality; many adult problems come from what has gone wrong at infant stages
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Picasso, les desmoiselles d'avignon (Modernism)
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Women presenting themselves to be chosen from men, not beaitufl, distorts them (not real), jagged and frighful, "not right", art does not have to depict things as it
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Picasso, Guernica (Modernism)
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Hectic, Terrifying, art vs. evil
German plays destroyed Guernica 1645 die |
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Picasso, Man with a violin (Modernism)
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invention of cubism, high art- tought in art school/hung in gallaries, difficult to define, easy to ridicule, audiences start to reject it
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Cubism
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moving towards abstract; high art; art should represent things
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Bransui, Bird in Space, (Abstract)
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abstract- movement in which art leaves behind figure
if you focus too much on external, you miss the essence of things stop focusing on superficial |
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WW2, TOTAL WAR
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All society is a target, break moral of a whole society, everyone is involved in war effort; no individual hero; weaponry; genocide- attempt by nazi party to eliminate a race (jews); racism, ends with death of europe (US and USSR rise above); ends with nucleur weaponry
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WW1
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WEAPONS machine guns, airplanes, gas; more in-human, trench warfare
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Proxy wars (end of ww2)
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US and USSR become puppet masters, no active confrontation between the 2 b/c they were afraid of nucleur war.
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De-colonization (end of ww2)
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europe is destroyed; colonies start to pull away (like india), us afraid that once 1 country pulled away, others would follow and that would promote communist advancement so we had to stop it. i.e vietnam and korean war
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Capitalism
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free market economy (un planned); gives individuals things they need/more choices;choices guide what economy makes; consumers drive economy
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communism
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centrally planned economy;need someone to tell you where spending/resources should go; all power with top elements of gov't
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existentialism
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solve problem of alienation (feeling of being disconnected from everything that matters); emphasized role of human choice in a world that lacked moral absolutes
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Sartre, "Existentialism"
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human beings make their own meaning; no God/divine being; you are responsible for making meaning in your own life; humans are not born responsible; your job to determine good and evil; humans condemed to be free
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Abstract Expressionism
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Figure is completely gone; art for the public
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Jackson Pollock (Abstract), Paint splatters "Number 1"
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it is whatever we find in it- action painting
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Rothko "Untitled" (Abstract)
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color field painting- abstraction with layers of paint to canvas; blocks of color- to know his paintings you have to stand 18 in. from them
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"Ethics of Living Jim Crow"
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Jim Crow Laws- By law, states enforced segregation
This is a passage of the unspoken rule book of how to survive in the "white mans world" Mother is trying to teach kid how to survive Psycologically damaging to kids both black and white White kids- tought them how to use violence Always sense of fear, humiliation , being "overlookded"; black had lack of opportunities |
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"Letter From Birmingham Jail" MLK
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Letter to religious leaders (white men who didn't like King)
"unjust/unmoral laws"= degrade human beings and humiliate them A law that not everyone has to floow is unjust No man is above law (due process) NON VIOLENCE (negotiation, direct action involves confrontation; ability to not fight back lets people gain sympathy for you leading to negotiation) |
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Letters to Grass Roots" Malcom X
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Solution- violence by any means necessary we have right to defend ourselves
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MLK vs. Malcom X
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MLK- All created equal, ideal integration, all blacks, whites and everyone else work together.
Malcom X- complete separation of blacks and whites both assasinated |
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Trends of the "new age"
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1.) Rise of Image
2.) Advertising 3.) Consumption |
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Jacques Ellul, The technological society
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Society of mass man
Advertising leads to mass man- everyone is the same, cookie cutter We are not longer individuals, work to become like others. |
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Most important woman advancement...
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BIRTH CONTROL; completely up to woman; chemical process; sexual relationships without having kids; men feared this
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Germaine Greer said...
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Women cannot be Michealangelo's b/c they have been suppressed; their egos have been damaged; society creates lacks in women which prevents them to be strong enough
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Cindy Sherman, "Untitled #276"
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masucline b/c of posture
confident, defient(hands on hip); women used to be people who controlled posture; dress is ugly and see-through and not fitting. does purity have to be sexual? (flowers) |
