Modernism after WWI Dada and Expressionism The Aftermath of World War I 1914 1918 Casualties military and civilian Dead 16 million Wounded 21 million Serious psychological damage PTSD shell shock unknown The lost generation Technologies of Killing Machine guns Poison gas Dada Major figures Historical context reaction to World War I started in Zurich Switzerland Tristan Tzara 1896 1963 writer Marcel Duchamp 1887 1968 visual artist Philosophy anything can be art so nothing is art Anarchism Indecisive upside down children sadness dedicated Aesthetics nonsense Chance poems Ex Hi effervescent plethora tee hee Feather bunny rabbit plane Our Class Scene from The Gas Heart by Tristan Tzara Characters Eye Mouth Nose Ear Neck Elements spread throughout Europe and especially America Expressionism First develops in Germany Starts in 1900s peaks in 1920s Reaction against realism Realism Objective truth Expressionism Subjective experience Major Goal Show the individual in struggle with a hostile or nonsensical world Aesthetics of Expressionism Writing Individual against impersonal denaturalized and or hostile world written from their POV Characters abstracted or archetypal Suspicion of technology bureaucracy government or corporate Design Try to create external version of main character s internal life perception Sharp angles Strong contrasts black and white light and shadow film noir
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