Slides for March 3 and 5, 2009
The Culture of Crisis and the Height of the Modern
As introduction - we are listeing to Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37
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Portrait of Bertholt Brecht |
Two views of the Bauhaus building in Dessau |
Picasso's Three Musicians (1927) |
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Josephine Baker |
"Hot Jazz" from France in the 1930s |
Charles Lindbergh and The Spirit of Saint Louis |
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Interior of Ford's River Rouge complex in the 1940s |
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Democracy in Retreat and Democracy Defeated
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A section of the Maginot Line |
Mass demonstration against the Kapp Putsch |
50 million German Mark note Eventually, a dollar would be worth 4.2 trillion Marks |
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Walter Rathenau |
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler |
s. "Death of a Loyalist Solcier" |
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Picasso's Guernica protesting the bombing of that city |
. Francisco Franco |
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All images are from Wikimedia Commons unless otherwise noted and are considered to be in the public domain and, if copyrighted, eligible for display under fair use criteria.
The pictures of the Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany are by the author and were taken in June 2002.
The photo of Guernica is from "The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge" Web site.
The picture of Hitler and Mussolini is from the National Archive and is in the public domain.
