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Beckmann, The Shell (1915)
Faivre, "On les aura!"
(1916)
Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity
in Space,
1913
Partridge,
Sir Bernard, "Take Up the Sword of Justice"
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London 1915 (June)
‘Lord Kitchener Wants You’ poster of 1914
Ernst, Murdering Airplane
(1920)
The Army Isn’t All Work.
In this recruiting poster, the dividing line between rugby or tennis
player and trench soldier disappears.
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Key Questions
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- What were the causes of World War I?
- To what extent was World War I
simply the contradictions within the 19th century western tradition
coming to conflict in Europe?
- How was World War I a watershed
event in destroying the progressive notion of European civilization's
development? How was this expressed in the differences
between the pre- and post-European artistic, musical and literary views
of/within Europe?
- What were the repercussions of 'The
Great War' on European society? Did The Great War really
usher Europe into the 'modern age'?
- In what ways was World War I a
watershed event politically, socially
, economically and militarily?
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WWI Political, Social,
Economic, Intellectual Religious
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WWI Art:
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WWI
Literature:
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WWI Music:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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England:
Germany:
- von Bülow,
Hammer and Anvil Speech before the Reichstag, December 11, 1899
- von Treitschke, "The
Greatness of War" (1900); from Politics
(1916) (excerpt)
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain, from Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, Volume I, Chapter 5, page 329—493. The Entrance of the Jews into the History of the West; Volume I, Chapter 6, page 494—578. The Entrance of the Germanic People into the History of the World (1899) (excerpts) (excerpts)(excerpts) (excerpts)
- von Moltke,
On the Nature of War
- The
Schlieffen
Plan (1905)
- von
Bernhardi
The Next War
(1914); Germany
and the Next War (1911); The
Inevitability of War: (1912)
- Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas
II, Nicky and Willy Letters
(1914)
- Zweig, The Outbreak of War
(1914)
- Hitler
at the Feldherrnhalle,
August 1, 1914
- Austria's Ultimatum (1914)
- Leibknecht, The Main Enemy is At Home,
(1915)
- The Constitution of the Black
Hand, (1911)
- German
Soldiers Describe Combat: Eduard Schmieder (1914-15);
II: Sophus
Lange (1914-15); III: Hans Stegemann (1914);
IV: Max Beckmann (1915);
V: Peter Hammerer (1916)
- von Falkenhayn, “Christmas Memorandum”
(December 1915) on 'Stellungskreig'
- Luxemburg, "The
War and the Workers"-- The Junius Pamphlet (1916)
- Hollweg, on the Effects of the Russian
Revolution (March 28, 1917)
- The Strikes of January 1918
- Ludendorff, Admits Defeat: Diary Entry by
Albrecht von Thaer
(October 1, 1918)
- Freud,
“A
Legacy of Embitterment” (1915)
- Junger, Storm of Steel (1920); from The War as Inner Experience
(1922)
- Treaty
of Versailles
- Wilson's "League
of Nations" Speech , 1919
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War Posters and Paintings:
Futurism
Liberal Patriotism:
Dada and Surrealism:
Expressionism:
Miscellaneous:
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WWI Poetry:
WWI Novels,
Plays, and Memoirs:
Dada and Early Surrealism:
Vorticism:
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- British
Imperialistic Anthems
- Charlotte
Mew, Onward
Christian Soldiers
- Webern, Passacaglia, Op. 1
(1908); Five Pieces for Orchestra (1911-13) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire, Op.
21 (1912)
- Berg, Wozzeck
(1914-22)
- Vaughn Williams, The Lark Ascending (1914)
- Holst, The Planets
(1916) Mars, the
Bringer of War;
Venus, the Bringer of Peace;
Jupiter, the Bringer of
Jollity; Uranus, the Magician
- Ravel, La Valse
(1919-20); Rigaudon, Prelude and
Menuet from Le tombeau
de Couperin (1916)
- Bartok, String Quartet #2 in A minor op.17 1,
2, 3.
(1915-17)
- Stravinsky, from The Rite
of Spring, (1913) ; The Rite of Spring
at Keeping Score (PBS): Introduction,
Augurs,
Mock Abduction,
Spring Dance,
Games,
Procession of Elders,
Adoration of Earth,
Dance of Earth,
Sacrifice Intro),
Mystical Circle of Maidens,
The Chosen Victim,
Summoning Ancestors,
Ancestors Ritual,
Sacrificial Dance
(Listen to the Complete Rite
of Spring) ; Costumes for the Ballet
Russe
(1909-30)
- Stravinsky, L'Histoire du Soldat
(1918): 1. Marche du Soldat
2. Petits Airs
3. Pastorale
4. Marche Royale
5. Petit Concert 6.
Trois Dances
7. Danse du Diable
8. Grand Choral
9. Marche Triophe du Diable
- Antheil, Ballet Mechanique
(1924) (American Mavericks)
Video by Marcel Duchamp
- Cohan, Over
There (1917)
- Satie,
(with Cocteau and Picasso) Parade
(1917); Gnossiennes;
Trois
Gymnopedies;
from Furniture Music (1917) (ist use of the term 'surrealism' Carrelage phonique
(Erik Satie
at Ubuweb)
- Britten, War Requiem
(1936)
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Haussman, The Spirit of Our Times (1921)
Nevinson, Paths
of Glory (1917)
Sargent, Gassed,
(1918-19)
Kirchner, Selbstbildnis
als Soldat (1915)
Dix, Skull
(1924)
Dix, Prague Street
(1920)
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World War One:
Dada and the Surreal:
Expressionism:
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Dada and the Birth of Surrealism:
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Lesson Plans and Presentations:
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Lesson Plans and Presentations:
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Lesson Plans and Presentations:
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Lesson Plans and Presentations:
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- Heubeck and AP European Class-John
Carroll School. Surrealism (ppt)
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