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ART 330: Contemporary Humanities: 3: New York, Skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Making It New
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 3 — New York, Skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Making It New
- The Vote by PBSThe Vote tells the dramatic story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
- Suffragettes by BBCTo mark 100 years since women over the age of 30, who owned property, were first allowed to vote in the UK, Lucy Worsley examines the battle that women had to wage for that right. She tells the story a group of less well-known young working-class suffragettes who decided to go against every rule and expectation that Edwardian society had about them, and ended up being tracked by a special police unit. A BBC Production.
Literature
Read the text as you listen
Fitzgerald, F. S. (2021). The Great Gatsby original classic edition : The complete 1925 text. G&D Media.
Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context) by ISBN: 9780191516566Publication Date: 2005-01-01During Virginia Woolf's lifetime Britain's position in the world changed, and so did the outlook of its people. The Boer War and the First World War forced politicians and citizens alike to ask how far the power of the state extended into the lives of individuals; the rise of fascism provided one menacing answer. Woolf's experiments in fiction, and her unique position in the publishing world, allowed her to address such intersections of the public and the private.Michael H. Whitworth shows how ideas and images from contemporary novelists, philosophers, theorists, and scientists fuelled her writing, and how critics, film-makers, and novelists have reinterpreted her work for later generations.The book includes a chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and times.
- The Sound and the Fury MovieSet in Mississippi at the turn of the 20th century, “The Sound and the Fury” portrays the decline and fall of the Compsons, a once proud, aristocratic Southern family. Translating William Faulkner’s famously challenging experimental prose into the language of cinema, "The Sound and the Fury" reveals the secrets and betrayals that have tarnished the family name and continue to haunt the Compson children. Featuring James Franco.
Visual Arts
Vladimir Tatlin – important figure of the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s.
Metropolis Lang (1927) -German expressionist science-fiction drama film
Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Artist Thomas Hart BentonOne of America's best-known, least-understood painters was Thomas Hart Benton. Ken Burns traces the pioneering artist's turbulent career in this bittersweet portrait, highlighting the fierce controversy over his work. The film combines rare archival material, commentary by those close to the artist, and a stunning selection of Benton's superb paintings and murals to create a moving profile of the 20th-century genius. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
Music
Performance Art, Dance, Theatre
- Bertol BrechtA documentary portrait of this bold theatrical innovator and his work. The program shows his roots and the theatrical and social background of his formative years, and analyzes the development of his vision of the theatre—episode in place of Aristotelian plot, the use of nonliterary devices, new techniques in character portrayal, and new aims for the very concept of theatre. (55 minutes)
Architecture
Louis Sullivan and the invention of the Skyscraper video
Villa Savoye Le Corbusier (1929) – French architect whose credo was to design a home that was functional home meets modernist sculpture