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Cultural and Intellectual Influences

Cultural and Intellectual Influences. 1750-1914. Transformations. Developments in science and the arts Consumer emphasis. Advances in Scientific Knowledge. Science and intellectual movements attempt to explain reality Traditions of rationalism Darwin’s evolutionary theory

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Cultural and Intellectual Influences

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  1. Cultural and Intellectual Influences 1750-1914

  2. Transformations • Developments in science and the arts • Consumer emphasis

  3. Advances in Scientific Knowledge • Science and intellectual movements attempt to explain reality • Traditions of rationalism • Darwin’s evolutionary theory • Einstein’s theory of physical relativity • Freud’s psychoanalysis

  4. Advances in Medicine • Concern with the well-being of society • 1877 sewer systems • Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) • Joseph Lister (1827-1912)

  5. Artistic Expression • Romanticism • Emotion and impressionism keys to understanding human experience • Split between Romanticism and rationalism caused much debate • Science supported the industrial order • Artists followed experimental paths • No synthesis in the 19th century

  6. Art and Literature • Realism • Reaction to Romanticism • Based on scientific and rationalist thought • Charles Dickens • Mark Twain • Photography

  7. Art and Literature-Realism

  8. African and Asian Influence • Europeans took notice of African and Asian artistic styles • admired dramatic, spare style of traditional West African sculpture, wood, and metalwork • Use of color and stylized forms of design in Japan • Impressionists • Simple themes in nature • Free of traditional constraints

  9. Cultural Japan • Heavily influenced by the west • Literature based on European models • Architecture and artists • create large building of steel • Greek columns • Western fashion and hairstyles • Japan still preserved it’s own values

  10. Cultural Japan • Heavily influenced by the west • Literature based on European models • Architecture and artists • create large building of steel • Greek columns • Western fashion and hairstyles • Japan still preserved it’s own values

  11. Leisure and Consumption • Higher wages and fewer working hours • New opportunities • Middle class values • Pleasure is a legitimate part of life • Consumption had to be encouraged • Field of advertising communicated sense of “needing things” • Popular “crazes” • The bicycle • Popular newspapers • Theaters • Professional sports

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