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Disillusionment
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Objectives Define Disillusionment.
Identify reasons for disillusionment. Explain how disillusionment influenced art movements after WWI (Lost Generation, Dada, etc.)
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“Disillusionment” To lose your belief in idealism, morality, love, or other such forces. Hopelessness. Think: What “illusions” would soldiers have held before entering the fighting? How could the fighting of WWI destroy these “illusions”?
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Causes for disillusionment
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – “Shell Shock” Loss of faith in leaders Witnessing deaths that brought no benefit: did anyone really “win”? Returning home, where nobody understands the experience (censorship)
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Wilfred Owen British Poet Volunteer Soldier: Honor and patriotism
Experienced horrors: Shell Shock Wrote poems all through the war Died in 1918 – just before armistice
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Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori
Latin: “How sweet and glorious it is to fight and die for your country.”
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How sweet was it to die for your country?
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“Lost Generation” Artists who were young people during WWI
Many Lived in France Wrote/made art about disillusionment
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-People who became disillusioned with society due to WWI
“Lost Generation” -People who became disillusioned with society due to WWI
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“Lost Generation” “Every man becomes civilized between the ages of 18 and 23. If he does not go through a civilizing experience at that time of his life, he will not become a civilized man. The men who went to war at 18 missed the civilizing…All you young people who served in the war are a lost generation. You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.” --Gertrude Stein on the American writers living in Paris after World War I
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Changes to Art & Culture
Cubism popularized: looks like distorted versions of reality
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Changes to Art & Culture
Dada Movement: revolt against WWI with humor, absurd subject matter
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Changes to Art & Culture
Spare, simple, harsh literature: Earnest Hemingway Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~E. Hemingway
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Self Check Can you: Define Disillusionment? Use it in a sentence?
context of sentence demonstrates understanding Come up with 3 reasons why WWI would cause disillusionment?
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