PROPAGANDA

BY:JAMES BESS

LINDSAY CARLSONNATALIE SOLIS

What is Propaganda?

What types of propaganda?

Who are the key artists?

What tools did they use to grab the audiences attention?

What about their art work made it propaganda?

PROPAGANDA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Systematically distributed material which advocates a point of view, or information reflecting the views and interests of those people advocating such a point of view.

Posters- Joseph Goebbels & Aleksandr Rodchenko

Film - Leni RiefenstahlArchitecture- Albert Speer & Benito Mussolini

PROPAGANDA

-German Politician who wrote Propaganda speeches

- "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

- Joseph Goebbels

JOSEPH GOEBBELS

Rarely used more than 2 colors in his posters to influence citizens opinions and emotions

Propaganda for Russia

Fast, Cheap and real images

ALEKSANDR RODCHENKO

1924 ADVERTISING POSTER BY:RODCHENKO

The Sixth Part of the World Movie Poster (1926)

By: Rodchenko

The picture above is a propaganda poster from Germany in the 1930s, it portrays Hitler in a Christ-like pose as the savior of Germany, the caption reads "Long Live Germany"

Activity 1:-In this activity, students will take out a piece of paper and create their own propaganda poster. They need to take a stand on a modern day issue and use 2-3 colors to convey their message while touching the audience emotionally.-You may use pictures from your magazines to help get your point across.-Let the posters from the previous slides inspire you!

POSTER ACTIVITY

German architectChief architect

for HitlerVideo of Speer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKSp6j8UNw&feature=player_popout#t=2377s

ALBERT SPEER

THE NUREMBERG STADIUM

THE BERLIN DOME

HITLER’S REVIEWING STAND

SPEER’S ARCHITECTURE FOR HITLER

WWII MEMORIAL

Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party (1922-1943).

Wanted to make Rome into a symbol of Fascism.

Restored ancient buildings and ruins.

Built new buildings to support his fascist ideology.

BENITO MUSSOLINI

“…must be clear and regular on the outside, and let the passing eye deduce nothing of what is going on inside. It must be poker-faced to the point of immobility; the mask must not slip. No surviving Fascist building does this better than the Palace of Italian Civilization at EUR.” (Hughes, 105)

AUTHORITARIAN ARCHITECTURE

Robert Hughes discussing Mussolini’s architecture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5eKSp6j8UNw#t=2808s

MUSSOLINI’S ARCHITECTURE

PALACE OF ITALIAN CIVILIZATION AT EUR

TERMINI STATION IN DOWNTOWN ROME

A BUILDING IN EUR, A CITY OUTSIDE OF ROME

“Twenty-five years later, most new American university campuses, particularly in Southern California, would have at least one building that looked like it (Palace at EUR). …the reigning style for cultural centres and other buildings emblematic of civic high mindedness: the main ingredients of the architecture of State Power, as imagined by the totalitarian hacks of our century, became known as the Architecture of Democracy when they crossed the Atlantic in the 1950s.” (Hughes, 105)

ARCHITECTURE OF DEMOCRACY

Activity #3

We will discuss the buildings from Cal State Fullerton’s main campus comparing to the authoritarian architecture we just discussed.

ARCHITECTURE ACTIVITY

MCCARTHY HALL

LANGSDORF HALL

ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING

“IT IS, IN ESSENCE, AN ARCHITECTURE OF COERCION.” (HUGHES, 108)