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Art, Literature, Mass Culture of the 1920's 1930's

Review activities for the culture of the 1920'2 and 1930's

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Joseph GoebbelsNazi Minister of Propaganda
The Triumph of the WillLeni Reifenstahl's Nazi propaganda film
DopolavoroItalian national recreational agency whose purpose was to bring culture to the masses
Kraft durch FreudeNazi agency whose purpose was to coordinate the free time of the working classes
Oswald SprenglerAuthor of Decline of the West
Decline of the WestBook that looked at the decandence of the West and posited its collapse
Marie StopesIn Married Love this writer emphasized sexual pleasure in marriage
Theodore van de VeldePublished Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique
Dada MovementArtistic and literary movement that attempted to enshrine the meaninglessness of life
Tristan TzaraRomanian-French poet and a founder of Dadaism
Hannah HochCreator of the Dada Dance
SurrealismArtistic movment which sought a reality beyond the material and sensible world
Salvador DaliArtist who painted The Persistence of Memory
FunctionalismArchitectural movemnt that emphasized usefulness in structures
Louis H. SullivanLeader of the Chicago school of the 1890's who built skyscraper free of ornamentation
Frank Lloyd WrightArchitect known for his innovative designs in domestic architecture
Walter GropiusFounder of the Bauhaus school
Kurt WeillGerman composer of the Three Penny Opera
Social RealismSoviet artistic style that used as propaganda to provide communist values
James JoyceAuthor of Ulysses that employed a stream of conscious technique
Franz KaftaCzech born author of eerie novels
Virginia WolfPart of the Bloomsbury Circle who wrote Mrs. Dalloway and Jacob's Room
Hermann HesseGerman novelist whose works drew upon the ideas of Jung
Carl JungPsychologist who viewed the unconscious as two fold; personal and collective
Ernest RutherfordOne of the physicists responsible for showing that the atom could be split
Werner HeisenbergGerman physicist who proposed the "uncertainity principle"
Jean Paul SartreFounder of the existenialist movement
T.S. EliotAmerican writer residing in Britain who wrote that western society had lost its spiritual values
William Butler YeatsIrish poet who conveyed a sense of dark times ahead in his poetry
JazzDistinctly American musical style popular in the 1920's


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Kingwood High School
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