Chapter 14      Modernism: The Assault on Tradition

 

Modernism
 

 


Albert Einstein
 

E=mc2


Werner Heisenberg
 

principle of uncertainty
 

 

Sigmund Freud
 

psychoanalysis

 

id /ego / superego

 

free association 

 


Carl Jung
 

collective unconscious

 

archetypes


War and Revolution
 

"total wars"

 

 

World War I
 

Central Powers vs. Allied Forces

 

 

The Russian Revolution
 

Totalitarianism

 

 

World War II
 

The Great Depression

 

 

Adolph Hitler - Germany

 

1941 - Invasion of Russia

 

 

Japan

 

1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Mao Zedong - China

 

People's Republic of China

 

social realism



The Imagists
 

Ezra Pound

 


T. S. Eliot
 

The Waste Land
 

 

 

 

William Butler Yeats

 

"The Second Coming"

Marcel Proust
 

In Search of Lost Time
 

 

Franz Kafka
 

"The Metamorphosis"
 

 

James Joyce

 

Ulysses

 

 

Eugene O'Neill

 

Mourning Becomes Electra

 

 

Konstantin Stanislavsky

 

method acting

 

 

H. G. Wells
 

The War of the Worlds
 

 

Aldous Huxley
 

Brave New World


Modern Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cubism
 

Pablo Picasso - Demoiselles d'Avignon

 

Man with a Violin

 

Guitar
 

Guernica

 

 

 


Futurism
 

Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase


Fauvism
 

Henri Matisse - Madame Matisse (The Green Line)

 

 

Nonobjective Art
 

Wassily Kandinsky - Panel for Edwin Campbell

 

Abstraction
 

Constantin Brancusi - Bird in Space

 

 

 

Expressionism
 

Edvard Munch - The Scream


Fantasy
 

Giorgio de Chirico - The Nostalgia of the Infinite
 

 

 

Dada
 

Marcel Duchamp - L.H.O.O.Q.
 

 


Surrealism
 

Salvador Dalí - The Persistence of Memory

 

René Magritte - The Betrayal of Images

 

Frida Kahlo - The Broken Column

 

 

 

Photography
 

Dorothea Lange - Migrant Mother
 

 


Film
 

Sergi Eisenstein - The Battleship Pototemkin

 

Leni Riefenstahl - The Triumph of the Will

 

 

 

Modern Architecture
 

Frank Lloyd Wright

the Bauhaus

 


Igor Stravinsky

 

Le Sacre du Printemps - The Rite of Spring
Vaslav Nijinsky

 

Prelude to "The Afternoon of A Faun"