UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Second Industrial Revolution, Paul Gauguin, Mccarthyism
20 Apr 2016
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The turbulent decades: rapid change, modernism, and culture wars in the 20th cnt. Art movements were a reaction again bougie culture. Formalism purity of form stripped objects of socialism, didn"t included social problems. Fascism: any right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with an authoritarian and hierarchical structures that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism. Reparations, reforms, depression, social darwinism & the seductions of fascism (europe, argentina, brazil, dictatorship and church authority) Elites vs canner fodder & role of veterans in populist movements (reformist, revolutionary, and authoritarian) Used art to show what should have been ideal . Nazi"s created a concentration camp for: homosexuals, degenerates , dadaism painters, and anyone who opposed the ideal nazi image. The degenerate art exhibit is an example of: ideal middle class racism and homophobia in cultural aspects of. Fascism: art used for propaganda, anti-communist, all of the above.
