Chapter 18 Between the two wars

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Chapter 18 Between the two wars
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Postwar

• November 11, 1918 ends the war , (Malcom
  Cowley response- )
•  Changing patterns of life- - Warren Harding was
  elected President and Promisedreturn to
  normalacy The war had changed the world new
  customs and ways of life were created.
• New trends in Culture and style- Women gained a
  new sense of independence. Women received the
  right to vote with the 19th amendment. Women in
  the U.S. and Western Europe began using rouge and
  lipstick in public, and cut their hair short,
  This type of woman was called a flapper.
  Sports heros came on to the scene Babe ruth, Big
  Bill Tilden(tennis), HelenMoody(tennis), Gertrude
  Ederle(swam English channel, Charles Lindbergh.

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Postwar

• Technology- the automobile was created, highways
  followed, people traved farther on vacation due
  to the car, Radio-news shows, advertisements,
  radio encouraged people to buy consumer goods
  using motivation. Also packaged foods,
  refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, electric irons,
  and more leisure time was now available. Another
  invention was the movie.

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Revolutionary ideas

• Phyics- Albert Einstein- theory of
  relativitythere were no absolutes in measuring
  time and space instead depended on the relative
  motion of bodies in space. Einstein also talked
  about the Speed of light and talked about that
  all matter has energy. The breaking down of
  matter could form large amounts of energy (atomic
  Bomb). EMC2
• Psychology- Sigmund Freud- studied how the human
  mind worked. He studied the unconscious mind
  shapes our behavior. (the mind is ful of memories
  good and bad. His theories were used to help the
  mentally ill and also with child rearing

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Literature/ paintings

• WWI had a big influence on authors and artist.
  Ex. Waste land, hollow men, by T.S. Eliot he
  combined many literary, religious and historical
  references and a sense of despair. Earnest
  Hemingway(The sun also Rises) and F.Scott
  Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)used different way
  of expressing the times more upbeat. James Joyce-
  published a book called Ulysses- which expresses
  the inter-thoughts of the character in his book.
• Paintings- Cubism- Pablo Picasso he painted Les
  Demooiselles d Avignon it used intersecting
  shapes. Dada-used art form that shocked people,
  paintings that were of meaningless random
  arrangement of objects and words.His art led to
  Surrealism- art form that had dream like
  images.(influenced Freud).

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Music and Dance

• Sergey Prokofiev- age of steel composer Arnold
  Schenberg he composed Pierrt Lunaire used harsh
  dissonant music to express what he reguarded as
  the decay of western civilization.
• The U.S. came up with their own music called
  jazz. Mixture of folk music and western
  rhythums, harmonies from European classical
  musicand work songs from slave times. (Louis
  Armstrong, blues singer Bessie Smith, Jelly roll
  Morton.
• Dance- Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham transformed
  the art of dance. Sergey Diahilev-(Russian)
  blended modern dance with ballet

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Architecture

• Walter Gropius- Bauhaus school of design. Frank
  Lloyd Wright- blended his structures with natural
  surroundings.
• Popular culture- movies reflected the time era .
  Movies like The Last Laugh. Charlie
  Chaplin-used humor. The jazz singer- did away
  with silent movies