Transcript Culture in the Interwar Period

Culture in the Interwar Period
Ch. 9.4
Lost Generation
• What is the Lost Generation?
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Literally, it is the generation of people
born between 1883 and 1900.
• They were disillusioned by World War I.
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Known in Europe as the “1914
Generation” or the Génération au Feu.
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The phrase was coined by Gertrude Stein (spoken to
Hemingway): “You are all a lost generation.”
Group of American writers in the Post-World War One era
who were:
Displeased with American social values, sexual and
aesthetic conventions, and established morality
First fled to cities such as Chicago and San
Francisco; then to Paris, London, Madrid, Barcelona,
and Rome (in particular, Montparnasse).
Disillusioned by World War One.
All pioneered new ways of writing, rebelling against
the traditional Victorian literary style.
Included writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, and T.S.
Eliot
NAZI Propoganda
• Leni Riefensthal “Triumph of the Will”propaganda documentary of the rise of
NAZISM
• Hitler condemned modern art and
literature as obscene.
Art
• Abstract Art- having only intrinsic form with
little or no attempt at pictorial
representation or narratie content
DADA
Life had no purpose. DADA art follows no
rules, is nonsensical.
Surrealism
• Reality in the unconsciousness.
• Salvador Dali-most famous surrealist painter
Literature
• Stream of Consciousness-innermost
thoughts expressed
• James Joyce-Ulysses-everyday life in
Dublin
• Herman Hesse- spiritual loneliness in
mechanized society
Physics
• Werner Heisenberg- Uncertainty principleAll physical laws are unpredictable, and
therefore uncertain. This fit well with the
feelings of uncertainty in the world during
this post WW I era.