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Unit VIII G3
| Term | ID |
|---|---|
| "wireless" and the BBC | -Radio's allowed people to listen to live music wirelessly and have widespread audiences of a performance across the nation. -The British Broadcasting Corporation was a public broadcasting system that allowed people across Great Britain to tune in. |
| Birth of a Nation and The Blue Angel | -Rise in popularity of movies/cinema allowed wider spread of ideas(including propoganda) and fame of actors. -Birth of a Nation was an American action silent film and The Blue Angel was a German sound film |
| German Expressionism | -Form of expressionism focused on devastation and depression. -Created as a result of the devastation in Germany after WWI |
| George Grosz and Otto Dix | -two German Expressionists who portrayed their personal hatred for the "Great War" -showed the devestation they lived through in Germany during and following the war |
| Dadaism | -style of self proclaimed "anti-art" to show the pointlessness of life -said that all things were pointless and illogical and achieved nothing |
| Surrealism | -art used to portray irrational and break barriers of logic -often portrayed things of dreams and nightmares |
| Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory | -showed recognized objects clocks in unfamiliar positions (melting) -sought for the reality beyond reality , or a subconscious (surrealism) |
| Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius | -sought functionalism architecture in which engineering and art joined in architecture. - architecture seems simple as it is serving a specific function while still being art. |
| "degenerate art" | -the term/opinion of modern art by Hitler and the Nazi's -said this art was too simple and dull and was going backwards |
| "socialist realism" | -art accepted by Stalinist Russia and similar to Nazi Germany's art -continuation of early 1800's art with focus on objective rather than subjective |
| "stream of consciousness" | -a writing technique in which a character has an inner monologue of their innermost thoughts -was a part of the movement to go towards thoughts of of dreams or subconcious |
| James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | -Authors who used the "stream of consciousness" technique -sought to tell the story of characters through thoughts and reveal their point of view |
| Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf | -sought to portray the spiritual loneliness of people in urban life -won Nobel prize for litterature |
| Carl Jung | -a psychoanalyst and follower of Freud -believed that a part of all people's unconsciousness was shared between all human beings, and that unconsciousness represented a persons deep desires |
| Ernest Rutherford and the atom | -the father of nuclear physics -learned that atoms could be divided and discovered the proton |
| Werner Heisenberg and the uncertainty principle | -proposed that the path of and electron could never be observed accurately since light disrupted it said as a general rule no scientific information could be obtained for sure and as fact |
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