Changing Attitudes and a New Culture

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Changing Attitudes and a New Culture

• World History
• Ch. 7 9
• Mr. Scherrman

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VOCABULARY to know

• Temperance Movement
• A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic
  beverages supported by many womens groups. It
  shows the public awareness and desire to reform
  society and cure the threat to family life.

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VOCABULARY to know

• Womens Suffrage
• The struggle for political rights for women was
  difficult across Europe and the United States in
  the 1800s. Many womens groups pushed for
  suffrage, or the right to vote. People argued
  women were too emotional to vote while others
  felt they should be protected from politics.
  Others claimed a womens place was in the home,
  not the voting booth.
• New Zealand, Australia, and some Western
  Territories won the vote before 1900.
• In Europe and US, womens suffrage did not come
  until after WWI.

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VOCABULARY to know

• Social Darwinism Racism
• Many people took Darwins theory and applied them
  to social settings. Economists felt that
  Industrial tycoons, or big business owners, had
  the right to put others out of business. It was
  survival of the fittest in business.
• Others even applied it to race, feeling certain
  races were superior to others. (RACISM). Many
  Europeans and Americans felt the success of
  Western Civilization was due to the supremacy of
  the white race.

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B. A New Culture

• a. ROMANTICISM
• The new cultural movement that emerged around
  1750-1850.
• Writers, artists, and composers went against the
  enlightenment emphasis on reason and progress.
• They glorified NATURE EMOTION
• b. The Romantic Hero a mysterious,
  melancholy figure who is out of step with
  society. REBEL.
• Lord Byron poet who lived the romantic life.

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ROMANTICISM

• c. Music
• Ludwig van Beethoven used his compositions to
  stir emotion using a wide range of sounds that
  orchestras now offered.

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ROMANTICISM

• Art
• Landscape artists like J.M.W. Turner captured the
  beauty and POWER of nature.

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Shipwreck Joseph Turner, 1805
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Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
exhibited 1842
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Rain, Steam, and Speed.
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The Slaveship-1842
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Art continued

• Delacroix painted actions that showed ENERGY
  and EMOTION.

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Liberty Leading the People-1830
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Realism-the world as it is.

• ART Often focused on the harshness of life in
  the cities or villiages.
• Images were ordinary subjects, especially working
  class men women.
• Gustave Courbet

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The Stone Breakers-1849
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The Gross Clinic. Thomas Eakins 1874
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Cowboys in the Badlands. Eakins 1888
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Age of the Novel

• Charles Dickens Portrays real life with his
  characters.
• OLIVER TWIST!

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DRAMA

• Henrik Ibsen, the father of Realism in the
  theatre. Portrayed real life drama in his works.

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IMPRESSIONISTS

• The development of photography replaced the need
  for realism in painting.
• (why paint it when the photo does the work for
  you.)
• Impressionists wanted to capture the first
  impression of a scene or object made on the
  viewers eye.
• CLAUDE MONET-most well known.

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Impression, Sunrise Claude Monet
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'Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert Claude Monet
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