John Jamieson Nazi Germany Book Review Professor Gregory Parsons In Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy‚ Eric D. Weitz provides a strong narrative of what life was like immediately following the First World War in the Weimar Republic. Weitz sub title Promise and Tragedy is the most accurate phrase possible to describe Germany at that time in history. This being sad because of how relatively unstable Germany was‚ following the war. Although Weitz’s writing can be very dull and drawn out‚ a reader
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Performance art is an essentially contested concept: any single definition of it implies the recognition of rival uses. As concepts like "democracy" or "art"‚ it implies productive disagreement with itself.[1] The meaning of the term in the narrower sense is related to postmodernist traditions in Western culture. From about the mid-1960s into the 1970s‚ often derived from concepts of visual art‚ with respect to Antonin Artaud‚ Dada‚ the Situationists‚ Fluxus‚ Installation art‚ and Conceptual Art
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memories and experiences in the subconscious is core to Surrealism Hypnosis liberates the imagination Through the dream‚ reality is solved. Political situation of the time: Brenton was a communist The surrealists were anarchists like the Dadaists of WW1 Surrealist thought that non-government was better(irrational vs the rational) Russian revolution INFLUENCES FOR SURREALISM Tribal art Dada : chance‚ irrational‚ illogical Art of children and the mentally ill Freud and Jung (importance
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Erwin Blumenfeld Erwin Blumenfeld was a Berlin born American photographer. He was born in Berlin on January 26 1897 to Emma Cohn and Albert Blumenfeld. In 1907‚ his mother Emma bought him camera as a gift. Erwin then began to experiments enthusiastically with a chemistry set and a magic lantern. In 1911 he took interest Photographic self-portraits using a mirror to obtain simultaneous frontal and profile views Blumenfeld moved to Holland late 1918. Blumenfeld married Lena Citroen in Holland
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No human being with soul or a desire for knowledge can deny an interest in the arts‚ even if it is slight. Art is one of the most powerful vehicles for communication. It expresses visions that are beyond the capacity of words‚ thus attaching pieces of its creator to each creation. The evolution of art parallels the evolution of the human being. Economy and rationality rule temporarily‚ but art is forever. Because art is the expression of societal life‚ it is important to survey the art of today.
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onward‚ the movement spread around the globe‚ eventually affecting the visual arts‚ literature‚ film‚ and music of many countries and languages‚ as well as political thought and practice‚ philosophy‚ and social theory About 1937‚ Ernst‚ a former Dadaist‚ began to experiment with two unpredictable processes called decalcomania andgrattage. Decalcomania is the technique of pressing a sheet of paper onto a painted surface and peeling it off again‚ while grattage is the process of scraping pigment across
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"Happenings‚" "Events" and Fluxus "concerts‚" to name just a few of the descriptive words that were used. It’s worth noting that‚ even though we’re referencing the 1960s here‚ there were earlier precedents for Performance Art. The live performances of the Dadaists‚ in particular‚ meshed poetry and the visual arts. The German Bauhaus‚ founded in 1919‚ included a theater workshop to explore relationships between space‚ sound and light. The Black Mountain College (founded [in the United States] by Bauhaus instructors
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view” rather then a distinct style‚ going against conventional art the aim being to provoke‚ stimulate and involve the audience (even if that involvement was by talking negatively about the art‚ the fact that people are talking about it‚ meant the Dadaists had achieved their goal.) Oftener dubbed the “Farther of Post-Modernism”‚ Duchamp’s Readymades (a found objects he selected and exhibited as an artwork) broke boundaries in defining what art was in terms of martial practice and looking at the structural
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created his art works with not just traditional style‚ but tried to make unique and avant-garde style of unique works by his creational access and technique. Even if Man Ray is a painter‚ photographer‚ and also sculptor‚ he is the most famous as a Dadaist Avant-garde Photographer. He got a big influence by the environment of period‚ and has been a master of photographer who also gave an effect for art world and people. Man Ray was born in Philadelphia in Aug 27‚ 1890. His family is the jewish Russian
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fearless theme. Futurists believed that beauty could only exist in a struggle. The founding member of the futurists was Umberto Boccioni. Other member artists include: 1. Carlo Carra 2. Giacoma Balla 3. Gino Severini 4. Luigi Fussolo and the Dadaist; Marcel Duchamp Umberto Boccioni was born in Italy in 1882 and 1916. He was the founding member and leader of the futurist movement. He was influenced by the divisionist theories of Giacoma Balla and he had a great in the interaction of visual art
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