Fin-de-siècle Europe:An Era of Nervousness and Angst
History 104 / March 22, 2013
Albert Einstein(1879-1955)
Herbert Spencer(1820-1903)
Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900)
Vitalism in music:Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (1913)
Post-impressionism: the forms behind the reality
Paul Cezanne, View of Auvers
(1874)
Cézanne, The Mount of St.Victoria (1897-98)
Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890)
Vincent’s chair with pipe(1888)
Van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles (1889)
Cubism: reality is
multi-perspectival
Georges Braque, Candlestick and Playing Cards
on a Table(1910)
Pablo Picasso,Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon(1907)
Italian futurism: an embrace of technology and motion
Ludwig Meidner, Burning City (1913)