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Postwar Uncertainty Ch. 31 sec. 1 Chart

Explore the postwar period's uncertainty through the groundbreaking theories of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, the questioning of accepted ideas in literature and philosophy, the bold art movements of Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism, and the transformative innovations in technology and entertainment.

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Postwar Uncertainty Ch. 31 sec. 1 Chart

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  1. PostwarUncertaintyCh. 31 sec. 1Chart

  2. Albert Einstein • – new ideas on space, time, energy & matter • Theory of Relativity • = time and space can change relative to motion • Sigmund Freud • – human behavior is irrational or beyond reason

  3. Albert Einstein

  4. Sigmund Freud

  5. Literature • Questioned accepted ideas about reason and progress… • T.S. Eliot • – Western society had lost its spiritual values • William Butler Yeats – sense of dark times ahead • Franz Kafka • – situations can neither understand or escape • James Joyce – Ulysses (1922) – broke normal writing style

  6. Philosophy • Existentialism • – no universal meaning in life • Jean Paul Sartre • – French leader of movement • Friedrich Nietzsche • – urged heroic values of pride, assertiveness and strength

  7. Art • Expressionists – used bold colors and distorted or exaggerated forms • (Paul Klee &Wassily Kandinsky)

  8. Paul Klee

  9. Paul Klee

  10. Wassily Kandinsky

  11. Wassily Kandinsky

  12. Art • Expressionists – used bold colors and distorted or exaggerated forms • (Paul Klee &Wassily Kandinsky) • Cubism – natural shapes into geometric forms • (Georges Braque &Pablo Picasso)

  13. Georges Braque

  14. Georges Braque

  15. Pablo Picasso

  16. Pablo Picasso

  17. Pablo Picasso

  18. Pablo Picasso

  19. Art • Expressionists – used bold colors and distorted or exaggerated forms • (Paul Klee &Wassily Kandinsky) • Cubism – natural shapes into geometric forms • (Georges Braque &Pablo Picasso) • Surrealism – wanted to link dreams with real life • – “beyond or above reality” (Salvador Dali)

  20. Salvidor Dali

  21. Salvidor Dali

  22. Music • Composers moved away from traditional styles… • Igor Stravinsky • – irregular rhythms and harsh sound • Arnold Schoenberg • – rejected traditional harmonies and scales • Jazz – captured the new freedom of the age

  23. Tech. • Cars – new innovations and styles – cheaper … • Airplanes – International air travel … Charles Lindbergh

  24. Charles Lindbergh

  25. Tech. • Cars – new innovations and styles – cheaper … • Airplanes – International air travel … Charles Lindbergh • Radio – first commercial station KDKA Pittsburgh (1920) • Film – Entertainment! – 90% made in Hollywood • -- Charlie Chaplin

  26. Charlie Chaplin

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