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Lyrical Ballads:

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book of poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge
zeitgeist work (democracy and common-place things become just as important as aristocrats, a return to simplicity)
Spontaneous overflow of feeling leads to creation of Romantic poetry
Everyday life as lyrical poetry; emotional response to an event or an occasion
Elevated status of poet, prophet of society

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Musical nationalism:

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Transcendentalism:

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nature is the greatest teacher

depicted in written works, art, and music

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Hudson River School:

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Group of artists working in America that are considered the “American Romantics

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Literary realism:

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depicting the lives of English lower classes with intense sympathy and attention to detail
Dickens

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Realist art:

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paint the noble savages, the lay people; hearkens back to the Flemish paintings from centuries past (Romantic Realists)
lives of drudgery, poverty; mundane living
addresses ordinary life without expressing sentimentalism at all

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Marxism:

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headed my Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Communist Manifesto which called for “the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions”
Historical Materialism: legal actions, forms of the state are rooted in the material conditions of life

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Nationalism:

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the exaltation of one’s own home territory

turned from pride in your religion to pride in your nation

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Haussmannization of Paris:

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completed by Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann and ordered by Napoleon III
destroying old Paris and building a new one
served two purposes
beautify/sanitize
prevent revolution

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flâneur:

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a man about town, someone that walks around town, goes to cafes, too cool to have a job, but simply enjoyed life.

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Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe:

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Luncheon on the Grass
turned down by the Salon of 1863

was scandalous because of the nude woman in a painting- woman is realistic, defiant and looking at you

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causes of the “growing unrest” towards the end of the 19th c.

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Growth of democracy: people felt they had a RIGHT to material benefits
Scientific progress improved lives, lowered mortality rates: population rose
Growth of world financial market: power to big business; capitalism vs. socialism; trade unions
No bedrock of certainty: religion had lost its hold–secularism replaced it

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En plein air:

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in open air

first time that painters brought their easels outside and painted scenery not from memory

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Fin de siècle:

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“end of the century”
marked the dawn of modernism
last decade of the 19th century (1800s)

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Art Nouveau:

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“new art”

Siegfried Bing started it

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Importance of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon:

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five prostitutes in a brothel
“new in entirely every way”
“act of liberation, an exorcism of past traditions”

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Fauvism:

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application of arbitrary or unnatural color (anticipated by Van Gogh)
Means “wild beasts”
Broke with artistic tradition
Artists viewed as entrepreneurs.

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Cubism:

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reducing everything to geometric form

Started by Braque and Picasso

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Collages:

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to paste or to glue

challenged the space between life and art

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Expressionist style:

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combination of exploration of emotional potential of color with raw primitivism and sexual energy

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Atonality:

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no organization of music around a home key

Schoenberg did not like this term b/c it seemed like it described music as not being music

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Sprechstimme:

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“speech song”

modifies pitch by changing it in upward or downward direction

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Changes after WWI

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modernist temper in literature

Relativism = no absolute truth

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modernist temper in literature:

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  • skepticism and experimentation
  • fragmentation of line and image
  • abandonment of traditional forms
  • sense of alienation, homelessness, isolation
  • ambivalence about traditional culture
  • desire to find an elusive anchor in the past- back to “reality”
  • idea that only art can provide meaningful worldview
  • pushing of language to provide new meanings for an exhausted world
  • blurring of parameters of reality
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Dada:

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Nonsense Art, has no meaning

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Jazz

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The “American music form;” it started a whole musical tradition that then evolved into other forms (hip-hop, swing, blues, etc.)
Considered a democratic music
- Lots of switching off and solos of different performers
- Not just one leader in the piece

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Blues—Bessie Smith

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Famous singer who introduced the sliding “blue” note to vocal performance
Blues singer, wildly popular

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Dixieland–Louis Armstrong:

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played the saxophone, scatting

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Swing–Duke Ellington:

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Opera version of jazz

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Skyscraper:

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American invention, became one of the most recognizably American architectural styles
Started out as brick

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Chrysler Building:

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Innovative for the time

The arches were the same design as the hubcaps of the tires–biggest marketing ploy

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International Style:

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Initial skyscrapers were not very tall, and had a lot of flair in the design
“We are man. We can control nature.” “Form follows function.”
Seagram building

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Bauhaus

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German house of design, taught architecture; Hitler closed it down
Generated a style used in many buildings in the US after its close in Germany

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Mondrian: Geometric abstraction

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Horizontal lines = female, vertical lines = male

Getting back to the bones of a painting

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Le Corbusier

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Built some buildings on stilts to be far from the earth

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Social Realism

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An example of this is Picasso’s Guernica

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Kafkaesque:

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Guernica: circumstances of its creation, themes

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Picasso
"Greatest painting of 20th century"
Spain city bombing
Work of social realism
Franco- dictator who allowed this tragedy to happen
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isolation, alienation:

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Existentialism:

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Color-Field Painting:

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Pop Art:

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Land art:

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