Chapter 8 Art: Dada and the Bauhaus:
  1. The marketing of art, no longer dependent on the very wealthy or institutions, as in Athens and Florence, but now on a middle class with enough disposable income to buy art.
  2. On dada: its anti establishment, anti authoritarian attitudes were to be found all over Europe in postWWI period? How so? Rocky Horror picture show. "Against culture because the culture of Goethe and Schiller became compatible with war." "people seemed fascinated by the young artists who insulted them" (150)
  3. Moral renewal: --154 read quotation
  4. Bauhaus: mankind had failed to controlthe arrival of the machine, but that control could be recaptured ("HAL"): machines could be also make beautiful things. functionalism in aesthetics. Bauhaus vs. the neoclassical of prewar german. NOTE the quote on 164 comparing Berlin to LosAngeles
  5. Art: Dada and the Bauhaus:
    1. The marketing of art, no longer dependent on the very wealthy or institutions, as in Athens and Florence, but now on a middle class with enough disposable income to buy art.
    2. On dada: its anti establishment, anti authoritarian attitudes were to be found all over Europe in postWWI period? How so? Rocky Horror picture show. "Against culture because the culture of Goethe and Schiller became compatible with war." "people seemed fascinated by the young artists who insulted them" (150)
    3. Moral renewal: --154 read quotation
    4. Bauhaus: mankind had failed to controlthe arrival of the machine, but that control could be recaptured ("HAL"): machines could be also make beautiful things. functionalism in aesthetics. Bauhaus vs. the neoclassical of prewar german. NOTE the quote on 164 comparing Berlin to LosAngeles

Explain finances: Germany borrows to pay reparations, postpones final reckoning but allows the internal economy to recover and to prosper.

 

Chaper 9 Review: on the sexual revolution, consider what Thorton wrote about the control of sexuality (eros) and passion. And consider the distinction between "freedom" and "license" (look up these words in a dictionary, the meaning I am looking for here is related to licentiousness).

  1. The first part of chapter deals with the elections of 1924, scandals and th complicity of the Social Democrats. Bear in mind they are already under attack for other reasons. Given the range of the problems, what does it say about the position of the party (you may want to review the summary of the election results given as a link off the last lecture)
  2. More significant in this chapter is the development in the world of music. Consider the divisions in classical music and the response of various groups. Why would Berlin support so much classical music? And why would this "experimental" music be performed and supported there?
  3. The chapter ends witht he election of Paul Hindenburg as president of the republic. How does Friedrich interpret the outcome?
  4. Music:
    1. Note p. 175. "...musical life represented what colonies, or a Foreign Office, do in a great capital of a great power. The ambition that people might otherwise dedicate to military powerwas all played out on an opera stage." Menuhin.
    2. Schönberg... create a wholly new language for modern music. Opus 31 To Schönberg and his followers, the tone row represented a liberation from the conventional language of music, 178. The reaction on p183

Ch. 10

  1. The first part of the chapter deals with the formationof the Nazi party. Note Hitler's sense of the "good life". Consider the "planks" of the Nazi platform. Whose support were the Nazis seeking?
  2. The second part of the chapter turns to popular culture --jazz, Josephine Baker and "carefree exoticism"
  3. the chapter ends with the rise of open warfare between extremists on left and right.
  4. Politics: 1925...death of Ebert; election of Hindenburg..
    1. "given a choice between a democratic political leader and a conservative military leader, the largest number of German voters supported Hindenburg."187 . The election of Hindenburg in propaganda. 205: Army loyal to Hindenburg, not to republic
    2. 1926. Tensions among the Nazis. p196. One group saw mission to fight Communism, the other was genuinely socialist and dedicated to attacking monopoly capitalism. Hitler turns to the former. Perhaps because Hitler realized he could not win enough votes on the left (201, 2 million went to communists; only 280,000 to Nazis). Note the role of deliberate provocation .

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