ARTH 338 Lecture 13: art 338 frida 2 week 10
14 Nov 2016
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1) (women) artists in the weimar republic -- the prostitute. Term artist: the reader automatically reads the artist as "white male. " The modernist canon, as it has been constructed, leaves woman, and women from the history of art. Speaking of male vs. women experience of modern art. Otto dix, portrait of journalist sylvia von harden, 1926. Beginning in 1919-1933 -- became an unofficial term used to describe the. Although the war was over, germany as suffering enormous social, political and economic problems. Oscar wilde = decadence this was a time of social decay, moral decay related. Oscar wilde = decadence this was a time of social decay, moral decay related to degeneration. Degeneration by max nordau -- there was a direct link between decadent art and literature, and racial degeneration. Decadance related to decay, social decay was related to moral decay speaking to homosexuality as a source of racial decay. The prostitute is decadence = social and moral decay.
