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Modernism

Modernism. 1915-1945. Major Influences: (1) WWI. Land Tanks = “Wonder Weapon” & Machine Guns Sea = Submarines/torpedoes Air = Dogfights. Trench Warfare Chemical Warfare. In Flanders Field the poppies blow. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQyhVXUwM0&feature=related.

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Modernism

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  1. Modernism 1915-1945

  2. Major Influences: (1) WWI • Land • Tanks = “Wonder Weapon” & Machine Guns • Sea = Submarines/torpedoes • Air = Dogfights • Trench Warfare • Chemical Warfare

  3. In Flanders Field the poppies blow. . . • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQyhVXUwM0&feature=related

  4. Major Influences: (2) Faith-Shakers “God is dead.” Nietzsche

  5. Them’s fightin’/ words. . . • “Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!” • “Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?” • There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. Friedrich Nietzsche • A belief in God, he speculated, is “perhaps an inherited effect on [children’s] brains” and that it “would be as difficult for them to throw off their belief in God as for a monkey to throw off its instinctive fear and hatred of the snake.” • Charles Darwin understood better than anyone how his theory on the origin of new species threatened prevailing religious beliefs.  He referred to himself as “the Devil’s Chaplain” and complained that publishing the theory felt “like confessing a murder.” Charles Darwin

  6. Major Influences: (3) Freud If Sigmund Freud Were Ever Reincarnated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94NdClBIlu0 The Unconscious: The “Undiscovered Country”.

  7. Sigmund Freud on . . • God: “Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.” • Democracy: “America is a mistake, a giant mistake.” • Women: “What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.” • Sexuality: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

  8. Major Influences: (4) Marx

  9. Marx musings • “Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.” • “Democracy is the road to socialism.” • “Religion is the opium of the masses.” Los Angeles Labor Movement, 1910

  10. Characteristics • A conviction that previous sustaining social, political, religious or artistic structures had been destroyed or proven to be falsehoods Europe 1914

  11. Europe 1919

  12. Characteristics continued • Life is meaningless • Belief becomes an exercise in futility • Fragmentation

  13. Characteristics continued • Imagism • Deliberate obfuscation of meaning • Surprise, excitement; shock dominant motif • Multiple narrators, multiple languages • Stream of consciousness • Endings with no resolutions

  14. Modernism Modernism = International Movement • Artists: Picasso, Matisse • Composers: Stravinsky • Writers: Chekhov, Kafka, Joyce and Woolf • Science: Einstein, Planck • Psychology: Freud

  15. Question? • In these post-modern times, how are we still wrestling with the same questions of (1) faith in a world of science, (2) family in a world of fragmentation, (3) economic stability in a tenuous global market and (4) love in cyberspace? Answers? Yes, please. Must address all four for exit credit.

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