institute for the study of western civilization the

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATIONTHE ROARING TWENTIES

LECTURE 6: MORALITY AND MODERNITY

FridayAugust 9, 2019

Clara Bow


Joan Crawford (1928)FridayAugust 9, 2019

Louise Brooks (1920)FridayAugust 9, 2019

Our Dancing

Daughters1928


MaryPickford

1910


Lillian Gish


Lillian Gish in The Wind, 1928FridayAugust 9, 2019

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


1910FridayAugust 9, 2019

Charles Dana Gibson“The Gibson Girl”


“Love in a Garden”FridayAugust 9, 2019

Evelyn Nesbit as the Gibson

Girl


Violet Romer (1886-1970)American dancer and flapper

1915FridayAugust 9, 2019

“The Gibson girl was the embodiment of stability. The flapper’s aesthetic ideal was motion, her characteristics were intensity, energy, volatility. While the Gibson girl seems incapable of an immodest thought or deed, the flapper strikes us as brazen and at least capable of sin if not actually guilty of it. She refuses to recognize the traditional moral code of civilization, while the Gibson girl had been its guardian.”

—Kenneth Yellis


Clara Bow1921


Joan Crawford1928


Louise Brooks, 1928


Theda Bara (Theodosia Goodman)FridayAugust 9, 2019

Garbo


Gloria Swanson


“She has eyes that would dragany youngster away from his books… She radiatesan elfin sensuousness.”

The New York Times,on Clara Bow


Would you like to sinWith Elinor GlynOn a tiger skin?

Or would you preferTo err with her

On some other fur?


Clara Bow and Antonio Moreno, It (1927)


Louis ArmstrongFridayAugust 9, 2019

William Demarest1892-1983


Actress Colleen MooreFridayAugust 9, 2019

OurDancing

Daughters1928


“None of the Victorian mothers—and most of the mothers were Victorian—had no idea how casually their daughters

were accustomed to be kissed.”—F. Scott FitzgeraldFridayAugust 9, 2019

Russell Patterson, “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire”FridayAugust 9, 2019

First Class Smoking Room on the TitanicFridayAugust 9, 2019

New York SpeakeasyFridayAugust 9, 2019

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