ART 31B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Zang Tumb Tumb, Hugo Ball, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
1. Interventionist Demonstration, Carlo Carra (1914) VS Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada
Though the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, Hannah Hoch (1919 ~
1920). Differences between them as evidence of each artist's political movement.
a. Explanation of movements
i. Futurists → Carlo Carra
1. F.T. Marinetti most renowned for Futurism. According to him,
industrial objects are more aesthetic (car).
2. Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice
3. Italians too fixate on the past rather than embracing new ideas,
which is the reason why they are not achieving full potential.
4. There is an emphasis on speed, dynamism in the art form. Unique
forms of art. i.e noise that revokies riot
5. Glorification of War. Its destruction will bring novelty. Patriotic
6. Art such as Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash symbolizes how the
futurists perceived the world is in a constant movement
ii. Dadaism → Hannah Hoch
1. view their work as total negation of popular culture. Use culture as
social protest. Anti-behavioral forms as a negation of dominant
meaning.
2. Idea of negation: undermining the values that is associated with
that thing originally
3. Consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aesthetics
of modern capitalist society. Instead, they express nonsense,
irrationality. Because viewed reason and logic as reason to war
4. Hugo Ball. Read poems in nonsense language which mirrors the
futurist (F.T Marinetti) Zang Tumb Tumb. futurists were extreme
nationalists, but dada like Hugo Ball are anti-nationalists, which is
why they fled the country in the first place
b. Form
i. Carra
1. Vibrant color, an attempt to gain mass attention. Purposely differs
from the traditional styles of art
2. Evokes phenomenon of mass demonstration. Using pieces of
advertisement, newspaper.
3. Inspired by Vortex like spinning leaflets dropped from airplane
over Piazza del Duomo of Milan
ii. Hoch
1. Gathered images and text from popular forms of media
(newspaper, magazines) and combined them in uncanny ways
2. The power of work came from the intentional dismemberment and
reconstruction of the images. Alludes to the notion that current
issues can be viewed through different lenses
3. Lots of industrialized objects. Linked to the political movement.
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4. Anti-behavioral pictures. Baby body with adult face
c. Content
i. Carra
1. A lot of sound representing poems. Shouts of crowd or the sound
performances done by them.
2. Published few days after Germany declared war on Russia.
3. Their active support of Italian intervention against Austria in Great
War (Italian Flag and words such as Trieste Italiano)
4. “Parole in Liberta” was a literary form devised by Marinetti in
which words in different fonts and sizes are freely “let loose”
across the page
ii. Hoch
1. Pieces of exploding machines symbolizes booming industry. Not
proud, but circus-like. Act as critique of political free-for all
2. Full of politicians displayed through Hoch’s satirical eyes
3. Hoch uses of gender to play games with viewer perception.
Creates juxtaposing, confusing messages. Call to message
4. Her work was intended to dismantle the fable and dichotomy that
existed in the concept of the “New Woman”
5. A direct criticism of the failed attempt democracy imposed by the
weimar republic.
d. Historical factors that accounts for these differences
i. Different intentions. One is trying to galvanize masses another is trying to
call for issue. The color scheme differs greatly.
ii. Both have some sort of disagreement with how the government is
operating.
iii.
2. Fountain, Marcel Duchamp VS work of Dessau Bauhaus. Similarities and differences in
terms of status as avant-garde?
a. Movement
i. Readymade
1. ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and
modified
2. Challenges the convention norms of what art is
3. L.H.O.O.Q and 50 cc of Paris air
4. Where does value come from and how does value circulate. What
role does context play in creating value
5. Art is fabrication of idea not a fabrication of actual objects
ii. Bauhaus
1. Created during time of a unstable government
2. Founded by leftist artist and architects
3. started with going towards craftsmanship advancement to
industrial design and technology
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Document Summary
Interventionist demonstration, carlo carra (1914) vs cut with the kitchen knife dada. Though the last weimar beer-belly cultural epoch of germany, hannah hoch (1919 ~ Differences between them as evidence of each artist"s political movement: explanation of movements. Unique forms of art. i. e noise that revokies riot: glorification of war. Patriotic: art such as dynamism of a dog on a leash symbolizes how the futurists perceived the world is in a constant movement, dadaism hannah hoch, view their work as total negation of popular culture. Anti-behavioral forms as a negation of dominant meaning: idea of negation: undermining the values that is associated with that thing originally, consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aesthetics of modern capitalist society. Because viewed reason and logic as reason to war: hugo ball. Purposely differs from the traditional styles of art: evokes phenomenon of mass demonstration.
