Unseen context 1918-39

Question 1

1918-39 period

Answer 1

modernist

Question 2

industrial revolution

Answer 2

• machine progress, good of society- humans to be replaced by machines
• Modernists protest this- irregular free goes against assembly lines
• stream of consciousness- importance of mind over body
• train, effiel tower- change perspective
• city as dehumanising

Question 3

mass culture

Answer 3

• modern art defines itself against mass culture or no divide
• crossing the line between cultured and common sometimes

Question 4

Bloomsbury group

Answer 4

• disdained mass culture
• Woolfs, Bells

Question 5

Darwin

Answer 5

• questioned christian orthodoxy
• human nature no longer tied to god- animals
• modernist interest in the primitive- belief that history is not progress, random mutations

Question 6

Marx

Answer 6

• all history tied to class struggle
• against darwin- history has an aim to creat a free and equal society
• humans are rational
• challenge for modernists to make it new

Question 7

Nietzche

Answer 7

• no such thing as objective truth- only subjective perceptions: cubist paintings,
• no distinction between good and evil
• ubermensch- will to power
• rootlessness to morality- continuum of modernism

Question 8

Freud

Answer 8

• repressed memory
• talking cures
• dreams as wish fulfillment
• concious vs unconscious mind

Question 9

Aestheticism

Answer 9

• Kant- art for arts sake, aesthetic part of the mind is separate- antinomy
• art is both particular and universal
• move from Victorian belief that art should be moral
• propensity to exclusiveness and elitism