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Warm Up Answer the following questions based on the Mass Society Timeline (p. 612-13): a. When did the Civil War begin in the United States? b. How many years passed between the invention of the telephone and the Kodak camera? c. Who invented the radio? d. In which year did World War I begin?
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Essential Question ► Why did the industrial revolution lead to a new modern consciousness?
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Romanticism
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Romanticism ► Reaction against Enlightenment thinking ► Enlightenment stressed reason as the means of discovering truth
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Romanticism ► Emphasized feelings, emotions, and imagination as sources of knowing
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Literature ► Walter Scott ► Ivanhoe ► About knights in medieval England
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Frankenstein ► Written by Mary Shelley
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Edgar Allen Poe ► Horror short stories
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Romantic Poetry ► Love of nature “One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”
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Romantic Literature ► Concerned that science and industrialization would cause a separation of people from their inner selves and from nature
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Romantic Art ► Abandon classical use of reason; focus on an artist’s inner feelings
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Romantic Music ► Ludwig von Beethoven “I must write, for what weighs on my heart, I must express.”
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New Age in Science ► Accompanied the Industrial Revolution
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Louis Pasteur ► Proposed the germ theory of disease ► Led to modern medicine
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Dmitry Mendeleyev ► Classified all elements on the basis of their atomic weights
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Michael Faraday ► Primitive generator that led to the use of electric current
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Secularism ► Discoveries led to a growing faith in science ► For some, this led to a rejection of religion
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Charles Darwin ► On the Origin of Species by Natural Means of Selection ► Organic evolution ► Natural selection
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Marie Curie ► French scientist ► Discovered that an element called radium gave off energy or radiation
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Albert Einstein ► 1905 – theory of relativity ► Space and time are not absolute, but relative to the observer ► Matter is another form of energy
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Social Darwinism ► The “fit” or strong advance while the weak decline ► Also applied to nations
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Growth of Anti-Semitism ► Hostility toward Jews in Europe ► Many were successful doctors, bankers, lawyers, and scientists
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Growth of Anti-Semitism ► Persecution in eastern Europe ► Pogroms – organized massacres
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Zionism ► Many moved to Palestine ► Jewish national movement to regain the homeland of ancient Israel
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Modernism in Culture ► 1870-1914 ► Artists and writers rebelled against traditional styles
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Impressionism ► Form of painting ► Rejected working in studios, went out into nature to paint
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Claude Monet
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Renoir
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Renoir
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Renoir
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Vincent van Gogh
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George Eastman ► Created the first Kodak camera in 1888
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Picasso ► Created cubism – use geometric designs to recreate reality
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Picasso
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Picasso
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Abstract Painting ► Began in 1910 with Wassily Kandinsky
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Kandinsky
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Kandinsky
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Kandinsky
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Architecture ► Emphasis on functionalism ► Buildings should fulfill the purpose for which they were built
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Louis H. Sullivan
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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