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Literature, Art, & Minority Groups

Literature, Art, & Minority Groups. Lecture # 4 (808-824) Objective~ Understand the changes at the turn of the century. Boring…. Realism & Naturalism. Goal~ portray the brutality & dullness of bourgeois life (dark side-no illusion)

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Literature, Art, & Minority Groups

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  1. Literature, Art, & Minority Groups Lecture # 4 (808-824) Objective~ Understand the changes at the turn of the century. Boring…..

  2. Realism & Naturalism • Goal~ portray the brutality & dullness of bourgeois life (dark side-no illusion) • Objected Romantics idealization of nature, the poor, love, and polite society • Focused on commonplace (alcoholism, prostitution, adultery, etc) • Gustave Flaubert (1st realist novel), Emile Zola (made realism a movement), Charles Dickens (I.R.), Ibsen, Shaw Oliver Twist

  3. Modernism (1870Post WWI • Critical of middle-class society & morality • Not concerned with social issues but to break old expectations • Flourished after WWI due to dislocation & turmoil (old political structures & social expectations vanished) • Virginia Woolf, Marcial Proust, Thomas Mann

  4. Modern Art • Impressionism~ (Paris) portrayed everyday modern life (social & leisure), focused on lighting & color • Not historical, religion, myth • Edward Monet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas • Post Impressionism~ attempted to relate achievements of impressionism to earlier artistic traditions (continuation not a reaction) • Georges Seurat Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin

  5. Impressionism ~ Monet and Degas

  6. Post Impressionism Van Gogh and Suerat

  7. Modern Art cont. • Cubism~ attempted to include as many different angles, views as possible (two dimensional shapes) • not based on reality. art- no purpose beyond itself • Pablo Picassoand Georges Braque

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