Post war social changes

Ch 13 Sec 1

Quick Write

• How do you think the older generation views your generation? Explain.

What was life like during ?

The Roaring TwentiesJazz Age

*The roaring twenties

*A new form of music started in the U.S.-jazz

*Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong were leading musicians.

*Most modern music had been influenced by jazz.

Women *Most saw limited progress

*Many labor saving devices had been invented to give them more time

*1920-Women get the right to vote

RT cont’dReactions *Prohibition

*Rise in Christian fundamentalism

*Scopes put on trial for teaching evolution

“She wore a knitted hat, with hardly any brim, of a flame or bonfire hue; a henna scarf; two strings of Betty beads, of different colors, twisted together; an open short coat, with ample pockets; a skirt with vertical stripes… her stockings were woolen and of brilliant hue.”

• Psychologist G. Stanley Hall

Eyeglasses

No Kissing/Making Out Bank’s Closed

Sinker

Speakeasy

Doughnut

Bee’s Knees The Ultimate

Egg Cheaters

Clam Ducky

Bell Bottom

Flivver Model T

DollarVery Good

Illicit Bar

A Person Who Lives the Big Life

A Sailor

Tomato Female

The brutality of WWI caused writers to question accepted ideas about reason, progress, religion, anxieties about the future, and fear of the future

Poets and Writers

• T.S. Eliot described a world of ”empty men and hollow dreams," showing the 20s weren't perfect

Poets and Writers

• F. Scott Fitzgerald - wrote The Great Gatsby, a book that exposed the superficiality of the 1920s lifestyle.

Ernest Hemingway

One of the most famous American writers of all time; wrote about anti-heroes (or flawed main characters); wrote in a direct or simple way

Harlem Renaissance

• *African American cultural awakening.

• *Cultural pride expressed

Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, was the center of the African American political, cultural, and artistic movement in the 1920s and early 1930s.

CausesGrowing African American Middle Class: developed as a result of improved educational and employment opportunities for African Americans.

ImpactThe Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a

deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.

Before After

• Quick Write

• Do you think the government should try to regulate the moral behavior of its citizens?

• Conceived by the Progressives

• Was a plan to stop people from drinking alcoholic beverages

• Added to the Constitution in 1919

• Made the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages illegal

• Reduce Crime

• Reduce Poverty

• Lower Death Rates

• Improve the Quality of Life

• Speakeasies were one of the many ways that people during the 1920's and early 1930's obtained illegal alcohol.

• Treasury Dept already had agents to enforce federal taxes

• The 18th Amendment now gave the power to the federal government to use police powers– A governments power to control

people and property in the interest of public safety, health, welfare, and morals

• Prohibition contributed to organized crime in major cities

• Underground gangs battled for control of the booze racket

• 1923 – Al Capone emerged as leader of organized crime

• Controlled Chicago liquor business by killing competitors

• Prohibition failed because the policy was unenforceable

• Only 5% of smuggled liquor was actually stopped from coming into the country

• Gangs overpowered or bribed authority figures

• Instead of lowering the crime rate prohibition actually lead to an increase in crime.

• Large amounts of money could be made from illegal bootlegging.

• The 21st Amendment ended prohibition in 1933

New Scientific Theories

Marie Curie

*Discovers some elements release charged particles

*radioactivity

Einstein *Introduces his theories of relativity

*Leads to creation of atomic power

Fleming *Accidentally discovers Penicillin

*Leads to antibiotics

Freud *Introduces the world to subconscious

*Pioneers psychoanalysis

Albert Einstein

Sigmund Freud

Modern Art

Cubism *Pre WWI-3 dimensional & complex patterns.

Abstract *Lines, colors & shapes.

*No recognizable subject matter.

Dada

SurrealismSurrealism• Features the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and

non-sequitur.• Attempted to portray the subconscious.• Favored irrational ideas.

The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali

Surrealism

Artist-Salvador Dali

By Max Ernst

Analytical Analytical CubismCubism

Woman With A Guitar, Georges Braque

Le Guitariste, Pablo Picasso

Synthetic Cubism

Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso

Garcon a la Pipe – 1905

So what are Picasso’s

worth?

$118,000,000

2004, #6

Dora Maar Au Chat

$101,800,000

2006 #8

Lesnoces

$85,700,000

1989 #14

Yo, Picasso

$83,200,000

1989 #17

$70,800,000

1989 #23

Acrobate et jeune Arlequin

$70,200,000

1988 #24

Femme aux Bras Croisés

$62,900,000

2000 #25

The Most Expensive…

Jackson Pollock,

156.8 Million Dollars

Dada Movement

Rejected all traditions & believed there was no sense or truth in the world.

Intended to shock & disturb.

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp

DadaDada

Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, Hannah Höch

Architecture

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright felt that the function of the building should determine its form.

House designed by Wright entitled “Falling Water.” It is now a museum.