HIST 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Oswald Spengler, Erich Maria Remarque, Sigmund Freud
29 Nov 2018
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The impact of the first world war the slaughter and chaos, people wondering what the point of it all was destruction of established conventions. Theory of relativity, 1905 challenged newtonian laws of physics that people thought were established. All quiet on the western front, 1928 came out a decade later, considered wrong to talk about this before ideas of what the world should be like. Masculine identity however the horrors of war were revealed. Demise of the west, 1938 claims forces will come over and swamp down all these identities. Modernist literature challenge of literary conventions stream of consciousness. Dadaism anti-art trying to be absurd using everyday items absurdities of life. Pablo picasso, 1881-1973 influenced by african art, found ti far more superior than european art. Anti-colonial themes indigenous motifs class and gender struggles. Well known as being a place of real artistic creativity and experimentation also very into cinema. Nazi germany ruined the experimentation and creativity propaganda neo-classicism anti-modernist.
