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79 Cards in this Set
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What is Bauhaus |
Architecture style, boxy, sleek exteriors |
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Who is known for Utilitarianism and the quote "greatest happiness for the greatest number" |
Jeremy Bentham |
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Who is the founder of the School of reason? |
Courbet |
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Who won 2 nobel prizes |
Curle |
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Artist known for surrealism, and melting clocks |
Dali |
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Scientist known for natural selection and evolution |
Darwin, Charles |
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English realist with largest audience |
Dickens, Charles |
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Who wrote Sweet Thunder, based on works by Shakespeare |
Ellington, Duke |
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Who wrote Madame Bovary |
Flaubert |
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What modernist wrote "Sun Also Rises" |
Hemmingway |
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Who wrote about the angst of black man in a white world |
Langston Hughes |
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What naturalist wrote A Dolls House |
Ibsen |
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What modernest painter (first one) painted "art for arts sake" |
Manet |
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who was a big factor in votes for women |
John Mill |
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Whos abstract art style includes "broadway boogie woogie" |
Mondrian |
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What Impressionest Painter's work was a rallying cry. "Sunrise" |
Monet |
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Who built the A bomb and said "I am become death" |
Oppenheimer |
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Who wrote the USSR satire "animal farm" |
George Orwell |
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What chemist is known for his germ theory |
Pasteur |
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"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" Guernica anti Franco" Guernica anti Franco warfare, cubist, tension between totalitarianism and freedom |
Picasso |
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Who is known for the quantum theory |
Planck |
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Who is known for the Remembrance of Things Past |
Proust |
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who is kown for the first modern liberated woman |
George sand |
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Who is known for his expressionist music, with little to no senst |
Schoenberg |
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Known for the Dream Play - Expressionist and Monder theater |
Strindberg |
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Architect of the Chicago school "form follows function" |
Sullivan, Louis |
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What russian realist wrote "war and peace" |
Tolstoy |
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Who wrote the Opera Rigoletto |
Verdi |
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What modernist is known for the stream of consciousness |
Woolf |
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What naturalist explored serious social issues |
Emile Zola |
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What was a basic principle of 19th c. liberalist |
freedom for individual from external control |
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what was a basic idea of 19th c nationalism |
feelings for nation above the individual |
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in what country did realpolitik have a powerful impact |
germany |
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who engineered the unification of germany |
otto van bismark |
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what event helped to sow the seeds of WWI |
Franco-Prussian War |
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what was the immediate consequence of the American Civil War |
end of slavery |
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what caracteried utopian socialists |
reform of ills of industrial society throught model communities |
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what did marx theorize propelled history forward |
class conflict |
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what were some of the characteristics of art during the age of the bourgeoisie |
pressures from official government agencies |
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What were the basic tenets of Marxism |
classless society, govnmt, law the arts and humanities will reflect the values of a particular class, middle class will bring its own gravediggers |
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who was a leading french romantic writer |
victor hugo |
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What did romantic novelists concentrate on |
free will and feelings of characters |
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which 19th c hilosophical movement taught that divinity manifests itself in may forms, including the physical universe |
transcendentalism |
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what new literary genre emerged in the period immediately following the american civil war |
slave snarritive |
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who was the leading neoclassical painter between 1830 and 1871 |
jean auguste dominique |
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what was the first great book to be written by a person of color since the fall of rome |
Fredrick douglas |
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what author was a major touchstone for romantic artists and writers |
shakespeare |
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in what sense can manet be called the first modernist painter |
radical asthetic |
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what characterized romantic music |
folk songs and ethnic dance rhythems |
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what were some of the characteristics and contributions of the music of Richard Wagner |
Opera fused arts, leitmotif, continuously flowing melodic line |
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what contributed to the harlem renaissance |
jazz , artistic primitivism, populations shift |
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what is the primary concern of Existentialism |
living an authintic life |
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what was a key valued of Sartre's Existentialism |
individual responsibility |
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What were some of the characteristics of Picasso's Guernica |
cubist style, protest against unbridled warfare, tension b/w totalinirism |
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why were Dada artists famous |
outrageous acts |
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whose theories inspired surrealist art |
freud |
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what characterized international-style architecture |
sleek exteriors |
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what changed moviemaking between 1914 and 1945 |
complex rhythmic patterns, operatic fortes, small orchestras |
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what is the greatest legacy of mass culture to the 20th century |
film |
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What defines "modernism" as a cultural movement? |
rejected both Greco-Roman Classicism and the Judeo-Christian tradition |
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what were 3 major forces that helped shape events btwn 1871 and 1914 |
imperialism, militarism, nationalism |
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what characterized europe btwn 1871 and 1914 |
increasingly involved in internal disputes |
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what was a major socail change btwn 1871 and 1914 |
establishment of public school systems |
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what was true of great britain btwn 1871 and 1914 that was NOT true of germany and france |
reformed living conditions of the poor |
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what shift took place btwn 1871 and 1914 among european nations |
shift from domestic to foreign affairs and the global economy |
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what was one of the major causes of late 19th c imperialism |
industrialized nations needed new markets |
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what reinforced early modernisms optimism about the future |
advances in science and technology |
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what characterized the work of Nietzsche and Freud |
explored beneath the surface of human motives to find the underlying truth |
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what are the three styles of early modernist literature |
naturalism, decadence, expressionism |
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what were the characteristics and results of Einsteins theoretical work in physics |
led to the overthrow of newtonian concepts of time and space only absolute in universe is speed of light proved there are no absolutes in time and space |
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why were impressionest painters so innovative |
innovation was creating out of doors not in studios |
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what was a major result of the impressionist movement |
art was free to move in many directions |
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who were the leading painters of Post-impressionism? |
Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh |
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what was the most striking feature of expressionist music |
atonality |
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how can the period btwn 1914 and 1945 best be understood |
the masses became a powerful historical force |
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what was the "democratic" political system in germany btwn the versailles treaty and the rise of hitler |
Weimar Republic |
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Which European country suffered most from the Great Depression |
Germany |
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Who were the European fascist leaders in the 1930s |
Italy- benito mussolini Germany - Hitler Spain -Francisco Franco |
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What were the causes of WWII |
Nazi Germany's aggressive policies in C. Europe Japans invasion of Manchuria and China German nationalistic feelings about recovering "lost" German lands/peoples |
