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15 Cards in this Set
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What developments occurred in art? (2) |
- more expressive and realistic - in the 1920s, Berlin replaced Paris as the world centre of art |
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Who were two important artists? |
Otto Dix - honest portraits Geaorge Grosz - criticised middle class conservatives |
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What developments occurred in architecture? (3) |
- Bauhaus movement combined art and function - Bauhaus school of architecture - challenged traditional values |
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What influenced literature and what developed out of this? |
WWI; Weimar classicism. Cultural and literary movement of Europe
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Who was a prominent author and what was he awarded? |
Thomas Mann; Nobel literature prize |
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What developments were there in music? (3) |
- modern and atonal (jazz) - threepenny opera criticised capitalism - expressionist movement (Arnold Schoenberg) |
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What were the developments in film? (3) |
- produced more films than the rest of Europe combined - many styles to attract ppl and gain more profit - 1920s world centre of cinema |
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What new kinds of film movements were there? |
- German Expressionism; focus on imagery and symbolism - New Objectivity; issues of reality |
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What kind of issues did social and political films cover? |
Anti-Semitism, homosexuality, prostitution |
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Why was there an increase in nightclubs and cabarets in the 1920s? |
Influx of American money gave the people more freedom to go out and celebrate more |
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Who attacked nightclubs? |
Both the left and the right |
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What kind of comedian developed in nightclubs and what did they do? |
Political comedians; there was no censorship so they made fun of political leaders (like Hitler) |
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What new kinds of theatre developed? |
- provocative/cabaret - satire - proletarian theatre |
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What was Proletarian theatre and who created it? |
Criticism of the middle class; Erwin Piscator |
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Which Marxist used theatre to his advantage and how? |
Bertolt Brecht put communist ideas into his work |
