History 111 - MODERN EUROPE

Selected Images from Lecture and for Discussion

Part II

 

Social Change in the Late 19th c.

Edouard Manet, "The Railroad," 1872-3 (National Gallergy of Art, Washington).

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Le Moulin de la Galette," 1876. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

 

Innovations and Novelties of the Belle Epoque

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, "Car Trip, Papa at 80 kilometers an hour," 1913.

 

Lartigue, "The ZYX 24 takes off, Rouzat," 1910.

 

Expressionism and Despair in the Belle Epoque

Edvard Munch, "The Scream," 1893 (Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo).

 

Cubism and the Breakdown of Perspective

Pablo Picasso, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," 1907. Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

World War One - The Trenches

British Troops in the Trenches of the Somme, preparing to go over the top, July 1, 1916.

 

And the Home Front

Women Munition Workers, British WWI poster.

(From http://www.iwm.org.uk).

 

Workers of the World, Unite!

Dimitry Moor, 1919. Soldier, farmer and worker stand together. Text at top: "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"

(From http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions).

 

The Magic of Industry in the Soviet Union

S. Mirzoyan and A. Ivanov, 1929. "Help build the gigantic factories." Poster advertises a state loan for industrial development.

(From http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions).

 

Surrealism and the Impermanence of Time

Salvador Dali.

 

Scenes from the Great Ideological Struggle of the Twentieth Century

The Soviet Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris. At the top, the worker and the peasant woman. Not pictured here, the pavilion of Nazi Germany, facing the Soviet Pavilion just across the river.

 

Political Posters from the Spanish Civil War

The CNT and the AIT, the anarchist-syndicalist trade union and the the international anarchist organization, join together to battle fascism.

"The 'Military' Practice of the Rebels." Popular Front propaganda aimed at western governments. On this question, see Guernica.

"Peasants, the land is yours!" From the revolutionary (but anti-Stalinist) communist party, the P.O.U.M.

(From "The Visual Front: Posters of the Spanish Civil War," at UCSD, http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/)

 

1968 in Prague. What Time is It?

Josef Koudelka, Czechoslovakia, 1968.