HIS317H1 Lecture : Industry, Democracy, and Modernist Art
Document Summary
*response papers only for participation, 3 in total out of the 5 remaining tutorials. Berlin in the 1920s becomes the centre of all types of mod art, painting, sculpture, dancing. In contrast to paris being the centre of impressionist art in the 19th c. Ranges from the art of dada to kiercher"s pedestrians on street during nighttime . Film also another medium, the cabinet of dr. caligari, metropolis, m . Architecture, the famous design school bauhaus is est. in 1919 (???) Magic mountain wins the nobel prize for literature. This art as a form of social activism. A deliberate rejection of what was taught in art schools. Has a lot to do with the war (i/ii ???) While weimar germany culturally very alive, this poli. revolt as an aftermath of the war, these two things become intertwined with each other. Young artists used their work for political criticism and activism.
