William Butler Yeats

1. William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming” (1920-21) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

2. What is the Age of Anxiety? – Assignment #1 DISILLUSIONMENT • a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be. “The storm has died away, and still we are restless, uneasy, as if the storm were about to break.” - Paul Valery • READ THE VALERY DOCUMENT AND FIND 1 QUOTE THAT EMBODIES DISILLUSIONMENT AND DESCRIBE WHY

3. From Belle Epoque to Anxiety and Disillusionment • Feelings of “anxiety” and dislocation begin before WWI as some feel alienated by how fast society is changing. • These artists experiment with new forms, unconstrained by old “rules” • Those “early anxiety adopters” are on the margins of a society characterized by “positivism and progress” • After WWI those artists, thinkers and writers become mainstream. Edvard Munch – The Scream 1893

4. How do you think both pieces of music might characterize the time period after WWI? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9M2oTHa3GM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMQFqWyFeKk

6. George Grosz: A Burning World

7. The Fountain Marcel Duchamp1917

8. Dadaism – 1920sDada: A World Gone Gaga Goals: Overthrow authority Cultivate absurdity Challenge the boundaries of art

9. Pesistence of Memory Salvador Dali 1931

10. Surrealism 1920s – 1940s Emphasized bizarre and dreamlike. Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s ideas of dream analysis.

12. This is Not a Pipe Rene Magritte 1919

13. The Healer Rene Magritte 1941