modernism, pt. iv: shattered utopia
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The first world war shatters the idea that technology would lead to human progress and the end of history. Art becomes disillusioned and strives to reconcile this new world environment.TRANSCRIPT
The Rise of Modernism, Part IV:
ShatTered Utopia1913-1939
Fernand Leger, The Cardplayers, 1917
Otto Dix, Light Signals, 1917
Gino Severini, Plastic Synthesis of the Idea War, 1915
Max Beckmann, The Night, 1918-19
George Grosz, Fit for Service, 1918
Otto Dix, The Skat Players, 1920
Otto Dix, Portrait of the Dancer, Anita Berber, 1925
George Grosz, Metropolis, 1917
First International Dada Exhibition, Berlin, 1920
Hannah Höch, The Beautiful Girl, 1919-20
Francis Picabia, Love Parade, 1918
Salvador Dali, The Lugubrious Game, 1929
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
Rene Magritte, The Treason of Images, 1929
Rene Magritte, The Therapist, 1937
Pablo Picasso, Seated Bather, 1930
Alberto Giacometti, Women with her Throat Cut, 1932
Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936