HIST 1003 Chapter : Fin De Siecle
Document Summary
Fin-de-siecle: slip sliding away: artist almost like a scientist, realist artists showing the world as social reform. Edwin landseler, the monarch of the glen . William holman hunt, the light of the world : carefully detailed, scientific, deer is nobility. A minority of realists shifting away from confident outlook. Shift from realism to modernism: cubism, expressionism, emerged in 1880s-1890s and became dominant in 1920s-1960s. Fin-de-siecle: end of the century : cultural move. Emergence of powerful political challenges: socialism, racist-nationalists challenged liberal faith and reason, showed irrational, gut feeling. Emergence of social sciences: argue about the strong irrational in shaping society, creatures driven by irrational forces, adam smith turned out to be wrong. Albert einstein: speculated on nature of cosmos. Development in medicine: germ theory, antiseptic surgery, anesthetics. Technological and scientific developments that forced europeans and. Emerging fear of society slipping down into animal-like time: instead of progressing, slipping down.
