Post war social changes
Ch 13 Sec 1
Quick Write
• How do you think the older
generation views your
generation? Explain.
What was life like
during
?
The Roaring Twenties
Jazz
Age
*The roaring twenties
*A new form of music started in the U.S.jazz
*Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong were
leading musicians.
*Most modern music had been influenced
by jazz.
Women *Most saw limited progress
*Many labor saving devices had been
invented to give them more time
*1920-Women get the right to vote
RT cont’d
Reactions *Prohibition
*Rise in Christian fundamentalism
*Scopes put on trial for teaching
evolution
Women’s dress - 1920
Women’s dress - 1900
“She wore a knitted hat,
with hardly any brim, of a
flame or bonfire hue; a
henna scarf; two strings
of Betty beads, of
different colors, twisted
together; an open short
coat, with ample
pockets; a skirt with
vertical stripes… her
stockings were woolen
and of brilliant hue.”
• Psychologist G. Stanley
Hall
Tomato Female
Dollar
 Clam
 Ducky Very Good
 Bank’s Closed No Kissing/Making Out
Model T
 Flivver
Illicit Bar
 Speakeasy
The Ultimate
 Bee’s Knees
 Egg
 Cheaters
 Bell Bottom
Sinker
A Person Who Lives the Big Life
Eyeglasses
A Sailor
Doughnut
The brutality of WWI caused writers to
question accepted ideas about reason,
progress, religion, anxieties about the
future, and fear of the future
Poets and Writers
• T.S. Eliot described a world of ”empty
men and hollow dreams," showing the
20s weren't perfect
Poets and Writers
• F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great
Gatsby, a book that
exposed the
superficiality of the
1920s lifestyle.
Ernest Hemingway
One of the most
famous
American writers
of all time; wrote
about antiheroes (or
flawed main
characters);
wrote in a direct
or simple way
Harlem Renaissance
• *African American cultural awakening.
• *Cultural pride expressed
Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, was the
center of the African American political, cultural,
and artistic movement in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Causes
Growing African American Middle Class: developed
as a result of improved educational and employment
opportunities for African Americans.
Impact
The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a
deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.
Before
After
• Quick Write
• Do you think the
government should try to
regulate the moral
behavior of its citizens?
• Conceived by
the Progressives
• Was a plan to
stop people from
drinking
alcoholic
beverages
• Added to the
Constitution in
1919
• Made the
production, sale,
and transportation
of alcoholic
beverages illegal
• Reduce Crime
• Reduce Poverty
• Lower Death Rates
• Improve the Quality of Life
• Speakeasies were one of
the many ways that
people during the 1920's
and early 1930's
obtained illegal alcohol.
• Treasury Dept already had agents
to enforce federal taxes
• The 18th Amendment now gave
the power to the federal
government to use police powers
– A governments power to control
people and property in the interest of
public safety, health, welfare, and
morals
• Prohibition contributed to
organized crime in major cities
• Underground gangs battled for
control of the booze racket
• 1923 – Al Capone emerged as
leader of organized crime
• Controlled Chicago liquor
business by killing competitors
• Prohibition failed
because the policy was
unenforceable
• Only 5% of smuggled
liquor was actually
stopped from coming
into the country
• Gangs overpowered or
bribed authority figures
• Instead of lowering the crime rate
prohibition actually lead to an
increase in crime.
• Large amounts of money could
be made from illegal bootlegging.
• The
Amendment ended
prohibition in 1933
st
21
New Scientific Theories
Marie
Curie
Einstein
*Discovers some elements release
charged particles
*radioactivity
*Introduces his theories of relativity
*Leads to creation of atomic power
Fleming
*Accidentally discovers Penicillin
*Leads to antibiotics
Freud
*Introduces the world to subconscious
*Pioneers psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Albert Einstein
Modern Art
Cubism
*Pre WWI-3 dimensional & complex
patterns.
Abstract
*Lines, colors & shapes.
*No recognizable subject matter.
Dada
Surrealism
• Features the element of surprise, unexpected
juxtapositions and non-sequitur.
• Attempted to portray the subconscious.
• Favored irrational ideas.
The Persistence of
Memory, Salvador Dali
Surrealism
Artist-Salvador Dali
By Max Ernst
Analytical Cubism
Woman With A Guitar,
Georges Braque
Le Guitariste, Pablo Picasso
Synthetic
Cubism
Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso
Garcon a la
Pipe – 1905
So what are
Picasso’s
worth?
$118,000,000
2004, #6
Dora Maar Au
Chat
$101,800,000
2006 #8
Lesnoces
$85,700,000
1989 #14
Yo,
Picasso
$83,200,000
1989 #17
$70,800,000
1989 #23
Acrobate et jeune
Arlequin
$70,200,000
1988 #24
Femme aux Bras
Croisés
$62,900,000
2000 #25
The Most
Expensive…
Jackson Pollock,
156.8 Million
Dollars
Dada Movement
Rejected all traditions & believed there was
no sense or truth in the world.
Intended to shock & disturb.
Fountain, Marcel Duchamp
Dada
Cut with the Dada
Kitchen Knife through
the Last Weimar BeerBelly Cultural Epoch in
Germany, Hannah Höch
Architecture
House designed by Wright entitled “Falling Water.” It
is now a museum.
Architect Frank Lloyd
Wright felt that the
function of the
building should
determine its form.