Mass+Culture+&+Leisure+and+Art+Movements+in+the+Interwar+Period

Taylor Trosper


 * __Mass Culture__**
 * Communication
 * Marconi--wireless radio waves
 * June 16, 1920--first radio broad cast for a mass audience
 * Mass production of radios
 * British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
 * Movies
 * //Birth of a Nation, Quo Vadis//
 * Actors and Actoresses became stars and subject fo public adoration and scrutiny
 * Marlene Dietrich (sensuous actress) //The Blue Angel--//new images of women's sexuality
 * used for __political__ purposes--Hitler, loudspeaker pillars erected in streets to encourage communal radio listening
 * Joseph Goebbels--propaganda minister of Nazi Germany--believed that film was a way to influencing the masses
 * //The Triumph of the WIll//--documentary of the 1934 Nuremburg party rally that forcefully conveyed the power of National Socialism to viewers
 * __Mass Leisure__**
 * sporting events--soccer
 * Olympics
 * Travel
 * planes, trains, buses, private cars
 * beach
 * //Dopolavoro// (Afterwork), Mussolini's Italy--national recreation agency
 * established clubouses with libraries, radios, and athletic facilities in almost every town and village
 * allowed state to impose new rules on previously spontaneous activities, enabling groups to be guided by the goals of the state
 * //Kraft Durch Freude// (Strength Through Joy)//--//Nazi version of Dopolavoro; affered variety of leisure time activities (concerts, operas, films, guided tours, sporting events)
 * __Art--__**weird art because of falling morale after WWI, felt like life was purposeless
 * Dadaism--enshrined purposelessness of life
 * Tristan Tzara
 * Hannah Hoch--//Cut With the Kitchen Knife//
 * Surrealism--sought reality beyond the material, sensible world, focused on unconscious
 * Dali--//The Persistence of Memory//
 * Functionalism--architecture, fulfill the purpose for which they were created
 * Chicago school of the 1890s led by Louis H SUllivan--reinforced concrete, steel frames, and electric elevators to build skyscrapers free of external ornamentation
 * Bauhaus in Weimar Germany--Walter Gropius
 * Frank Lloyd Wright


 * Richard Meier

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