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Maps and Images for
McKay 8e
A History of Western
Society
Chapter 28
The Age of Anxiety
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"Smokeless Chimneys/Anxious Mothers"
"Smokeless Chimneys/Anxious
Mothers"
In Britain, where the depression
followed a weak postwar recovery, large
numbers suffered involuntary idleness
for years at a time. This poster-Smokeless Chimneys and Anxious
Mothers!--was used in the Conservative
Party's election campaign of 1931, when
unemployment rose to a new record
high. (Conservative Research
Department/The Bridgeman Art Library
International)
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"The War, As I Saw It"
"The War, As I Saw It"
The War, As I Saw It was the title of a
series of grotesque drawings that
appeared in 1920 in Simplicissimus,
Germany's leading satirical magazine.
Nothing shows better the terrible impact
of World War I than this profoundly
disturbing example of expressionist art.
(Caroline Buckler)
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"There's No Way like American Way"
"There's No Way like American Way"
In this classic 1930s photograph, Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White (19041971) captured the contrast between advertisers’ view of the ideal American family and the
reality of mass poverty in a land of plenty, in this case a line of Louisville flood victims, 1937.
Bourke-White was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. She was a
woman doing a man's job, in a man's world, from the foundries of Cleveland to the battlefields
of World War II. (TimePix/Getty Images)
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Anti-French poster "Hands off the Ruhr"
Anti-French poster "Hands off the
Ruhr"
The French occupation of the Ruhr to
collect reparations payments raised a
storm of patriotic protest in Germany.
This anti-French poster of 1923 (Hands
Off the Ruhr) turns Marianne, the
personification of French republic virtue,
into a vicious harpy. (International
Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis)
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Berthe Morisot, In the Dining Room
Berthe Morisot, In the Dining Room
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was one of
the original members of the
Impressionist group. Many of her
paintings, such as this one, deal with
home life, women, and domestic scenes.
The liberated brushwork and expressive
use of light and shade are hallmarks of
her style. (National Gallery of Art,
Washington, Chester Dale Collection.
Photograph (c) Board of Trustees.)
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Cartoon: Unlocking Power of Atom
Cartoon: Unlocking Power of Atom
Many of the fanciful visions of science
fiction came true in the twentieth
century, although not exactly as first
imagined. This 1927 cartoon satirizes a
professor who has split the atom and
unwittingly destroyed his building and
neighborhood in the process. In World
War II the professors harnessed the atom
in bombs and decimated faraway cities
and foreign civilians. (Mary Evans
Picture Library)
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Dorothea Lange depression photo
Dorothea Lange depression photo
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was one of
the most effective photographers in
making the public aware of the plight of
the poor. Her most famous photograph,
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California,
shows a 32-year-old widow, later
identified as Florence Thompson, with
two of her ten children. This young
woman--with her worried look and
prematurely old face--told Lange that
she had just sold the tires from her car to
buy food. (Library of Congress/Corbis)
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Grosz, Draussen und Drinnen
Grosz, Draussen und Drinnen
George Grosz (German painter and graphic artist, 1893-1959) developed a bitter,
savagely satiric style to express the disillusionment of his post-World War I
generation. In this detail from his painting Draussen und Drinnen (Outside and
Inside) he captures the uncertainty and anxiety of the 1920s. (akg-images)
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Josephine Baker in Paris
Josephine Baker in Paris
The young American Josephine Baker
suddenly became a star when she
brought an exotic African eroticism to
French music halls in 1925. American
blacks and Africans had a powerful
impact on entertainment in Europe in the
1920s and 1930s. (Hulton Archives/Getty
Images)
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Monet, Impression: Sunrise
Monet, Impression: Sunrise
Impression: Sunrise, 1872 by Claude Monet, which gave Impressionism its name,
was greeted with derision and contempt, because the painter broke with artistic
convention. The substance of the composition was replaced by an assortment of dabs
of color, applied with loose, short brush strokes against a blue backdrop. (Musee
Marmottan, Paris/The Bridgeman Art Library International)
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Picasso, Guernica
Picasso, Guernica
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was probably the most significant artist of the early twentieth century. For more
than seventy years, he personified the individuality, freedom, and revolutionary creativity of the modern arts.
His passionate involvement in his times infuses his immense painting Guernica, often considered his greatest
work. Painted for the Spanish pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937, this mural, with its
mournful white, black, and blue colors, was inspired by the devastation of Guernica by fascist planes in a
single night. (Museo del Prado/Giraudon/Art Resource, NY (2) 2002 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York/ADAGP, Paris)
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Pissarro, L'avenue de l'Opéra
Pissarro, L'avenue de l'Opéra
Camille Pissarro was one of the leading Impressionists. In this painting, L'avenue de
l'Opéra, Sunlight, Winter Morning, he portrayed the broad new avenue designed by
Baron Georges Haussmann (1809-1891), which transformed Paris from a dirty
medieval city to a beautiful modern one. The avenue leads to the new opera, in
background, also planned during the Second Empire. (Giraudon/Art Resource, NY)
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Scandinavian socialism poster
Scandinavian socialism poster
Scandinavian socialism championed cooperation and practical welfare measures,
playing down strident rhetoric and theories of class conflict. This Norwegian poster
for The Oslo Breakfast showed the Scandinavian approach, which provided every
schoolchild in the Norwegian capital with a good breakfast free of charge.
(Universitets-biblioteket i Oslo)
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Soyer, Employment Agency
Soyer, Employment Agency
The frustration and agony of looking for work against long odds are painfully evident in Employment
Agency, an American masterpiece by Isaac Soyer (1902?-1981 ). The time-killing, pensive resignation, and
dejection seen in the three figures are only aspects of the larger problem. One of three talented brothers born
in Russia and trained as artists in New York, Isaac Soyer worked in the tradition of American realism and
concentrated on people and the influence of their environment. (Collection of Whitney Museum of American
Art, Purchase 37.44)
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Still of Nuremburg
Still of Nuremburg
This still is from an extraordinary illustration of the Nazi period, Triumph of the
Will, a documentary film on the sixth Nazi Party rally, which took place September
4-10, 1934, in the historic city of Nuremberg. Directed by a talented young woman,
Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), Triumph of the Will has long been recognized as one
of the most compelling propaganda films ever made. (MOMA Film Stills Archive)
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
This photograph of Virginia Woolf by
Gisele Freund shows the famous author
in a pensive pose. Her novels captured
sensations like impressionist paintings,
and her home attracted a circle of artists
and writers known as the Bloomsbury
Group. Many of Woolf's essays deal with
women's issues and urge greater
opportunity for women's creativity.
(Gisele Freund/Photo Researchers)
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Weimar movie poster for "Metropolis"
Weimar movie poster for
"Metropolis"
This Weimar Cinema poster advertises
Metropolis, a film by the AustrianAmerican film director Fritz Lang
(1890-1976). This film explored the
dehumanization and exploitation of the
modern city. (The Museum of Modern
Art, New York. Gift of Universum Film
Aktiengesellschaft.)
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