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ART 330: Contemporary Humanities: 2: The Great War and It's Impact: A Lost Generation and a New Imagination
This course offers an introduction to the thought, values, and arts of Western culture through an exploration of the fine and performing arts in the twentieth century.
Culture and Context
Module 2 — The Impacts of the Freudian Revolution & Great War: A Lost Generation and a New Imagination
Visual Arts
- Paul Nash – one of Britain’s official artists of WWI
- Childen Hassam – Allies Day, May 1917 (1917); Hassam is a leading American Impressionist painter
- Xul Solar – Argentinian artist that founded the Newcriollismo movement
- August Sander - German portrait and documentary photographer
- Malevich – suprematism
- Mondrian – de Stijl
- Paul Klee
Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect that designed “organic” homes for the middle class. His structures such as W.W. Willits House and Fallingwater are iconic of his style. GO and see one of his houses by using the guide listed below to houses that are open to the public. There might be one NEAR YOU!
Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life and His Architecture by ISBN: 9780585277509Publication Date: 1979-01-01Examines the life and achievements of the 20th-century architect.
Wright Sites by ISBN: 9781616895907Publication Date: 2014-08-19Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United States and Japan, Wright Sites has been revised and expanded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the architect's birth in June 1867. The fourth edition of our best-selling guidebook contains twenty new sites, updated site descriptions and access information, and, for the first time, color photographs. It also includes itineraries for Wright road trips, a list of archives, and a selected bibliography.
Literature
- WWI poetry – Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats
- Albert Camus - The Stranger
- Kafka, Metamorphoses (1915) – allegorical novella about salesman who awakes one day to find himself transformed into a large insect.
- Carl Jung - Swiss Psychologist and proponent of the universal collective unconsciousness
Victorian Poetry by ISBN: 9780470695401Publication Date: 2008-04-30This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Includes W.B. Yeats
- The Waste Land by T. S. EliotEliot, T. S.. The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose, edited by Lawrence Rainey, Yale University Press, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central.
- The Metamorphosis by KafkaKafka, F. (1915). Metamorphosis (D. Wyllie, Trans.). Kurt Wolff Verlag.
Music
- Arnold Schoenberg - leader of Expressionist music