economics, modernism, technology, disillusionment
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Economics, Modernism, Technology, Disillusionment
Economics
Inflation Unemployment Failure of National Economies Decline of Capitalism/Rise of
Communism Overproduction
Economics “in the years between
WWI and WWII Germany’s economy experienced hyperinflation (extreme devaluation of money) that caused panic and uncertainty towards the future. Money had lost so much value that it was used as kindling and...was litter on the street.”
Economics
GERMANY: Why might
Germany’s economy be in shambles following World War I?
Discuss with your neighbor
Economics
Hyperinflation Super-intense inflation
Inflation Prices increase, while
the value of money decreases
Reparations ruined Germany’s economy. France and Britain
relied on Germany’s payments to back U.S. loans
Economics
Britain slow to recover Out of date factories Deeply in debt
France recovered relatively fast Thanks to reparations
and gaining territories
In Europe unemployment seemed to remain an issue
Modernism
Jazz Changing Social Classes Loosening of Victorian Ideals Speakeasies Changing Role of Women
Flappers Suffrage
Modernism—Django Reihardt
Modernism
Django Reihardt Often regarded as one of the greatest
guitarists Important to European jazz Developed new style of jazz
Hot jazz Today often referred to as, “Gypsy Jazz”
Modernism
Why did these changes happen in the United States following World War I?
Discuss!
Modernism
United States emerged as the leading economic power
United States loans to European countries helped recovery
Middle-class Americans celebrated Americans go on
spending spree Relatively easy access
to credit Women right to vote
Technology
Popular Media Radio, Movies, and the Automobile
Radioactivity and the Theory of Relativity
Popular Technology Electricity, Toaster, and Telephone
Psychoanalysis Impact of WWI Advancements
“Back in...1905, the family who cued up a record for the first time heard performers they could not see and music they could not normally bring into their homes. They could listen to that music over and over again. And they were the ones to decide what they wanted to hear, when they wanted to hear it, and who they wanted to hear it with.”
-Mark Katz, Capturing Sound
Disillusionment
Disillusionment-a feeling of disappointment when things aren’t as good as they should be
WWI deaths and injuries
Shell shock
Lost generation
Surrealism DaDa—art movement born from the horrors of WWI, from
Europe Rise of The State vs. the Individual
Loyalty to the state (Mussolini in Italy)
Disillusionment
“Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp
What is this? Is this art?
Why is this not in the Modernism category?
Disillusionment “Duchamp has been compared to Leonardo
da Vinci, as a profound philosopher-artist. But there is also a comparison to be made with Buster Keaton, another handsome deadpan clown whom Duchamp somewhat resembled. He valued humor, telling a New York newspaper that, “People took modern art very seriously when it first reached America because they believed we took ourselves very seriously. A great deal of modern art is meant to be amusing.”
-Martin Gayford, The Telegraph (U.K.), 2008
Musicians by Pablo Picasso
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?