| Term | ID |
| "wireless" and the BBC | -Radio's allowed people to listen to live music wirelessly and have widespread audiences of a performance across the nation.
-The British Broadcasting Corporation was a public broadcasting system that allowed people across Great Britain to tune in. |
| Birth of a Nation and The Blue Angel | -Rise in popularity of movies/cinema allowed wider spread of ideas(including propoganda) and fame of actors.
-Birth of a Nation was an American action silent film and The Blue Angel was a German sound film |
| German Expressionism | -Form of expressionism focused on devastation and depression.
-Created as a result of the devastation in Germany after WWI |
| George Grosz and Otto Dix | -two German Expressionists who portrayed their personal hatred for the "Great War"
-showed the devestation they lived through in Germany during and following the war |
| Dadaism | -style of self proclaimed "anti-art" to show the pointlessness of life
-said that all things were pointless and illogical and achieved nothing |
| Surrealism | -art used to portray irrational and break barriers of logic
-often portrayed things of dreams and nightmares |
| Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory | -showed recognized objects clocks in unfamiliar positions (melting)
-sought for the reality beyond reality , or a subconscious (surrealism) |
| Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius | -sought functionalism architecture in which engineering and art joined in architecture.
- architecture seems simple as it is serving a specific function while still being art. |
| "degenerate art" | -the term/opinion of modern art by Hitler and the Nazi's
-said this art was too simple and dull and was going backwards |
| "socialist realism" | -art accepted by Stalinist Russia and similar to Nazi Germany's art
-continuation of early 1800's art with focus on objective rather than subjective |
| "stream of consciousness" | -a writing technique in which a character has an inner monologue of their innermost thoughts
-was a part of the movement to go towards thoughts of of dreams or subconcious |
| James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | -Authors who used the "stream of consciousness" technique
-sought to tell the story of characters through thoughts and reveal their point of view |
| Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf | -sought to portray the spiritual loneliness of people in urban life
-won Nobel prize for litterature |
| Carl Jung | -a psychoanalyst and follower of Freud
-believed that a part of all people's unconsciousness was shared between all human beings, and that unconsciousness represented a persons deep desires |
| Ernest Rutherford and the atom | -the father of nuclear physics
-learned that atoms could be divided and discovered the proton |
| Werner Heisenberg and the uncertainty principle | -proposed that the path of and electron could never be observed accurately since light disrupted it
said as a general rule no scientific information could be obtained for sure and as fact |
