post war world: disillusionment ch. 29/ section one
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Post War World: Disillusionment
Ch. 29/ Section One
Warren G. Harding
is Elected as President of the United States
in 1920
Part of his political ideology is the “return to normalcy”
You: What can we tell about America if he is elected based on this idea?
Charles LindbergMay 20-21, 1927
Automobiles and Radios
You: How do these inventions change the way people live?
Einstein and Freud: scientists
Albert Einstein- physicist
Ideas proved the idea that there were no Absolutes
Sigmund Freud- psychologist
Hypothesis that the unconscious mind plays a major role in shaping behavior.
You: If I told you that the events in WWI explained the strong impact of the ideas of Einstein and Freud
on the people of Europe and America would you agree?
How can you explain your answer?
Writers Before WWI
Charles Dickens/English
Leo Tolstoy/ Russian
Mark Twain/ American
Charles Dickensfrom A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way”
The writers
Hemmingway
James Joyce
T. S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway from In Our Time (1925)
“While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces at Fossalta, he lay very flat and sweated and prayed oh jesus christ get me out of here. Dear jesus please get me out. Christ please please please christ. If you’ll only keep me from getting killed I’ll do anything you say. I believe in you and I’ll tell everyone in the world that you are the only one that matters. Please please dear jesus. The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. The next night back at Mestre he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Villa Rossa about Jesus. And he never told anybody.”
You: What do you notice about the writing of Ernest Hemingway?
Art Before WWI
Monet/ Grainstack, (Sunset) – 1890-91
Renoir/ Moulin de Galette- 1876
Pissarro/Cityscape- 1900
impressionism
Pablo picasso: Cubism
Weeping Woman, 1937
The Three Musicians, 1921
Salvador dali: surrealism
The Three Ages, 1930Apparition of Face and Fruit, 1938
Marcel duchamps: dada
musicians: duke ellington, louis armstrong,
Duke Ellington, AmericanLouis Armstrong, American
German Censored Music Poster, pre-WWII
Architecture before WWI
Eiffel Tower
1889
Architects: designing for the future
Bauhaus Architecture School, Germany
Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright, ArchitectMill Run, PA
You:
Refer back to your answer about Einstein and Freud.
The events of the times changed the way people saw the world.
Find two examples of this idea using your chosen individuals. Google their names and look under Images.
Cut and paste on a Word Document adding a short description of why you’ve chosen this example.
Try to size it so it’s all on one page.