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14 - Industrial Age Flashcards

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Who wrote “Empedocles on Etna”? Victorian - Industrial

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Matthew Arnold

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architecture and design: late 19th and early 20th centuries, depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing, sinuous lines (whiplash) treated in a flat, linear, and relief-life manner.

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Art Nouveau

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Style of painting, music, or drama.late 19th and early 20th centuries, seeks to convey emotional experience; stresses the subjective and subconscious thoughts of the artist, evoke subjective emotions on the part of the respondent. The struggles of life’s inner realities are presented by technique that include abstraction, distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, fantasy, and symbolism.

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expressionism

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mid- to late-19th century style originating in France. painting, characterized by concern with depicting the visual perception of the moment, the shifting effect of light and color; spontaneity, harmonious colors, subjects from everyday life, observed lighting and atmospheric effects by the psychological perception of reality in color and motion. emphasized presence of color within shadows and result of color and light making an “impression” on the retina.

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impressionism

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Belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems, and create human happiness.

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materialism

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Bar at Folies

artist - Industrial age

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Manet

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Who is considered greatest English novelist of Victorian Age?

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote A Christmas Carol

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote David Copperfield

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote Bleak House

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote Our Mutual Friend

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote Pickwick Papers

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote Oliver Twist

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote Nicholas Nickleby

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote The Old Curiosity Shoppe

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote Barnaby Rudge

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote A Christmas Carol

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Charles Dickens

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Who wrote Dombey and Son

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Charles Dickens

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Bleak House (1852–53) and Little Dorrit (1855–57) attack the injustices of the English legal system, and Hard Times(1854
Author.  Victorian
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Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859), set during the French Revolution
Author

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Charles Dickens

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Salammbô (1863) and The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874

Author

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Gustave Flaubert

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Madame Bovary (1857) and Sentimental Education (1869
author
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Gustave Flaubert

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Luncheon on the Grass, Olympia (1863) and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882)
Artist

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Édouard Manet

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In the arts, wide-ranging reaction to Romanticism and realism. depict a world seen as altogether new and constantly in flux.

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modernism

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The rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless

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nihilism

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A style of painting in which paint is applied to surface by dabbing the brush so as to create small dots of color.

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pointillism

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In visual arts, diverse style, late 19th century, rejected objective naturalism of impressionism, used form and color in more personal ways

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post-impressionism

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group of young British painters, rebelled against the unimaginative and artificial historical painting of the Royal Academy in the mid-19th century. The name evokes the direct and uncomplicated portrayal of nature in Italian painting prior to the High Renaissance (one of whose titans was Raphael).

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Pre-Raphaelites

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In visual art and theater, mid-19th century style, objective and unprejudiced record of the customs, ideas, and appearances of contemporary society through spontaneity, harmonious colors, and subjects of everyday life with a focus on human motive and experience.

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realism

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In visual art, theater, and literature late 19th to mid-20th centuries. Also known as neo-Romanticism. truth can be grasped only by intuition, not through senses or rational thought. ultimate truth suggested only through symbols, which evoke in the audience or reader various states of mind that correspond vaguely with the playwright’s or writer’s feelings.

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symbolist movement

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doctrine that an action is right insofar as it promotes happiness and that the guiding principle of conduct is the greatest happiness for the greatest number

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utilitarianism

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Relating to reign of Queen Victoria; relating to attitudes and values of society during Queen Victoria’s reign, regarded as characterized especially by prudishness and a high moral tone. (noun) A person who lived during the Victorian period.

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Victorian

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Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissaro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, were all ____ painters

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impressionist

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Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh (a powerful “Expressionist”), and Georges Seurat (who developed “Pointillism”) were all _____ painters

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Post-impressionist

37
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Requiem, Dies Irae. Composer

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Verdi

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Rigoletto, La donna è mobile. Composer

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Guisseppe Verdi

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The Flying Dutchman. composer

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Richard Wagner

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Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, The Ring of the Nibelungs. composer

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Richard Wagner

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Swan Lake, Nutcracker Suite, Romeo and Juliet overture: composer

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Tchaikovsky

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Francesca da Rimini, First Piano Concerto, 1812 Overture: composer

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Tchaikovsky

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Who were the Petrashevsky Circle

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a group of intellectuals who discussed utopian socialism, Russia

44
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The Idiot. The House of the Dead.

author

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Dostoyevsky

45
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Notes from the Underground. Crime and Punishment.

author

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Dostoyevsky

46
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Who made the statement “God is Dead”

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Nietzsche

47
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He thought of the age in which he lived as one of passive nihilism, that is, as an age that was not yet aware that religious and philosophical absolutes had dissolved.
Who was this?
Industrial age

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Nietzsche

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been identified as something of the quintessential nihilist of Western philosophy, a position which holds that there is nothing intrinsically meaningful within reality
Who

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Nietzsche

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His ideal manifestation of master morality is found in his conception of the “superman,” the man with superior potential who completely masters himself
Who?

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Nietzsche

50
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theory of the basis of human motivation is described by him as the “will to power.”
Who

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Nietzsche

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Perspectivism is a concept which holds that knowledge is always perspectival, that there are no immaculate perceptions, and that knowledge is always from a particular point of view.
Whose idea?

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Nietzsche

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