Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Context
Aftermath of WWI
Systemic
political change (1917-19 onwards) Systemic economic change (debt, economic disruption, 1929, collapse of the gold standard)
Intellectuals?
Ideologies?
Functions of art?
Role of an artist?
Unintended consequences?
Power and architecture inseparable? Symbolic architecture and power in the XX century, examples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esposizione_Universale_Roma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27eclisse
Albert Speer and Nazism Niemeyer: Brasilia Ceaucescu Financial power from early-XX-cent.chic New York to Horror (King Kong to twin towers)
Fascist architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esposizione_Universale_Roma
Architecture
Niemeyer: Brasilia
Ceaucescu
Painting
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UZ4Gu7a7V9UC&pg=PA496&lpg=PA496&dq=Soviet+people%E2%80%99s+art&source=bl&ots=FypMM8qM5&sig=Yf2vhcRSh2xbI_dZqXmVh2nLVgo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aJmhUuabBsOBhQeqgoG4AQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Soviet%20people%E2%80% 99s%20art&f=false
Italian
Fascism
and Futurism.
Futurist manifesto
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html
Greek drama
Epic theatre Use of art as an instrument for arising political awareness Influenced Dario Fo (Noble prize)
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/philosophy_ and_literature/v032/32.1.conolly.pdf
Leni Riefenstahl
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1975/feb /06/fascinating-fascism/?pagination=false
Obsession:
Luchino Visconti Bycicle thefts, Miracle in Milan: Vittorio de Sica Germany Year 0, Stromboli: Roberto Rossellini Story of a love affair: Michelangelo Antonioni (not in subsequent films)