modernism at its peak history 104 / april 5, 2013
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Modernism at its Peak History 104 / April 5, 2013. Hannah Höch, Cut with a Cake-Knife (ca. 1919). Otto Dix Flanders (1934-36). Otto Dix Skat Players (1920). Raoul Haussmann Tatlin at Home (1920). Paul Citro ën Metropolis (1923). Still from Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1926). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Modernism at its PeakHistory 104 / April 5, 2013
Hannah Höch,Cut with a Cake-Knife
(ca. 1919)
Otto DixFlanders(1934-36)
Otto DixSkat Players
(1920)
Raoul HaussmannTatlin at Home
(1920)
Paul CitroënMetropolis
(1923)
Still from Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1926)
Arnold Schoenberg(1874-1951)
- chromatic dissonance:Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
- twelve-tone musical technique
(1920s)
Abstraction: the art of
Piet Mondrian(1872-1944)
Bertolt Brecht(1898-1956)
The Threepenny Opera(1927)
James Joyce(1882-1941)
Ulysses(1922)
Cabaret in Berlinin the 1920s
The “bob” haircutand the
“garçonne” persona
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)
Walter Gropius(1883-1969)
Bauhaus academy buildings, ca. 1926
Aerial view of the Bauhaus buildings: geometry in space
Bauhaus under construction: standardized dorm apartments
Bauhaus living: the “horseshoe” settlement
The “horseshoe” settlement at ground level
Standardized workers’ housing for Siemens
The Schocken department store, Berlin (arch. Erich Mendelsohn)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, “Barcelona” furniture (ca. 1930)