Images: Flashcards
(28 cards)
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- World Columbian Exposition
- Fredrick Law Olmsted
- Showed world that the US could be traditional and influencial
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Trying to show that the US is welcoming to all, as it is called “Welcome All!”
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Shows Uncle Sam turning away the stinky immigrant for all the bad things he brings to America.
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The Tounament of Today
Shows Capital vs. Labor
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“How the other half lives” by Jacob Riis
Shows the pain of the tennements
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Lewis Hine
Documented Child Labor
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Manifest Destiny by John Gast
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Tried to show that they were taking Hawaii and Mexico to “tame” them
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William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
Yellow journalism was a sensationalized style of news reporting characterized by exaggerated headlines, eye-catching visuals, and a focus on scandal and drama, often with a mix of fact and fiction, popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Trying to depict Germany as dangerous or ape like or inferior during WW1.
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Rear view Cartoon
Shows how the countrys were pertending to sing a song of peace after treaty of Versallies
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Chrystler Building (NYC)
Art Deco architecture. Designed by William Van Alen, it was commissioned by Walter P. Chrysler and became a symbol of his company and the era.
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Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” (1930) is a renowned oil painting that embodies the American Regionalism movement. The style is characterized by its meticulous detail, inspired by Flemish Renaissance art, and its representation of rural American life. The painting’s significance lies in its portrayal of a farmer and his daughter, often interpreted as a symbol of American values and resilience, especially during the Great Depression.
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About the highs and lows of American Industry
In the Met
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MIgrant Mother
Dorthea Lange
The image became a powerful symbol of the hardships faced by displaced families and the emotional toll of economic hardship, and it’s often associated with the Dust Bowl era.
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Guerencia (Picasso)
Bombing
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Germania (city)
Albert Speer
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Robert Capa’s photographs of Omaha beach D-day landing
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Cathedral of Light
by Albert Speer
Used for Nazi propaganda rallies
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Triumph of the Will
(Nazi Propoganda)
By Leni Rifenstahl
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Sing Sorrow
Ben Sahan
Object detail. Ben Shahn painted Sing Sorrow after witnessing a banjo player weep as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s funeral train passed through Trenton, New Jersey. In Shahn’s painting, the central figure pauses from his guitar to cover his face in a moment of grief.
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Twin Superpower
By portraying the other superpower as a threat, they helped maintain a climate of tension and justification for military spending and other Cold War initiatives.
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Shameful brand of American democracy
USSR trying to make us look weak from the inside because we were
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The Problem we all live with
by Norman Rockwell
shows the plight of Ruby Bridges
