Modern Culture
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Victorian "genteel" culture |
20th century "modern" culture |
| natural environment |
abstract science |
| visible power |
invisible power |
| craftsman, shop |
mechanization, factory |
| work ethic |
leisure ethic |
| producer |
consumer |
| individual |
corporate |
| elitist |
democratic |
| rural, small town |
urban mass society |
| personal communication |
impersonal mass media |
| absolute morality |
relative morality |
| teleological religion |
secular natural law |
Ideas: Freud, Einstein, Picasso,
Inventions: Edison, Goddard, Wright Bros.
Impact: Frank Lloyd Wright, Insull, Steinmetz, Sullivan, Ford, Tilyou
Armory Show 1913: 1st major exhibition of modern art in the U.S.; 1300 paintings seen by 300,000 Americans in New York, Chicago, Boston.
- promoted by Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secessionists
- Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" (Dadaism - and his Readymades)
- Henri Matisse's "Blue Nude" (Impressionist)
- John Marin's "Woolworth Building" (modernist like Stieglitz)
- John Sloan's "Women Drying Their Hair" (Ash Can School or urban realists)
- George Bellows' "Men of the Docks" (Ash Can School)
Links:
- Armory Show of 1913 from University of Virginia
- Sigmund Freud from Library of Congress and Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy and Freud Museum in Wien and Freud Museum in London and Sigmund Freud Archive
- Albert Einstein from Einstein Archives at Hebrew University and Einstein Archives Online and Einstein Online and Image and Impact by AIP
- Pablo Picasso from Island of Freedom and Art Archive and Official Site and On-Line Picasso Poject
- George Tilyou and Steeplechase Park and Coney Island postcards and Coney Island history
- Alfred Stieglitz from MOMA's Alfred Stieglitz and American Photography and MOMA's Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle and Getty Museum and Wadsworth Atheneum
- Amuseument Park History
- Universal Newsreel Dec. 8, 1955, on 41-story Prudential building, El Cortez hotel, bowling, Arthur robot
- Universal Newsreel Aug. 6, 1956, on Suez Crisis, Bell X-2, Argonne National Lab, from DVD61
- Thomas Edison and the Heroic Age
- Henry Ford and the Road to Happiness
- Modern Culture
- Art Deco
Sources:
- Brian, Denis. Einstein: a Life. New York, NY: J. Wiley, 1996. 509 p.
- Cabanne, Pierre. Pablo Picasso: His Life and Times. New York: Morrow, 1977. 606 p.
- Gay, Peter. Freud: a Life for Our Time. New York: Norton, 1988. 810 p.
- Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York : Hill & Wang, 1978. 119 p.
- Twombly, Robert C. Frank Lloyd Wright; an Interpretive Biography. New York, Harper & Row 1973. 373 p.
- Whelan, Richard. Alfred Stieglitz: a Biography. Boston : Little, Brown, 1995. 662 p.