La Belle Epoch

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La Belle Epoch

• Faith in Science Alone
• Science at the core of industrialization.
• New Wonders of daily life.
• Positivism Auguste Comte
• Father of sociology
• Charles Darwin - Darwinism
• Origin of Species 1859
• survival of the fittest
• Social Darwinism ? Herbert Spenser
• Promote racism

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La Belle Epoch

• Physics-
• Newtonian Science turned on its head
• Einstein ? Theory of Relativity -gt nature
  energy were separate distinct.
• Marie Curie -gt discovered radium said atoms
  emitted radioactivity
• William Roentgen -gt x-rays
• Professionalization of new sciences
  anthropology, archeaology, sociology,
  psychology, etc.

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La Belle Epoch

• Psychology
• Ivan Pavlov ? conditioned responses
• Sigmund Freud ? psychoanalysis
• The Interpretation of Dreams 1900
• The role of the unconscious the id, ego, super
  ego.
• Friedrich Nietzsche -gtÜbermensch ? Super Man
• Internal Religious Struggles
• modernists vs. fundamentalists

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La Belle Epoch Realism and Naturalism

• Literature movement that is opposite of
  Romanticism
• Attention to good and bad aspects of industrial
  states
• Charles Dickens
• Emile Zola
• George Bernard Shaw
• George Elliot
• Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace

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ART- Reflects economic, political and social
problems
Impressionism- Capture what the eye sees Use
of lights and shadows, visible brushstrokes
and backgrounds Claude Monet Pierre August
Renoir Edgar Degas Edmond Manet
Monet
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lt- Degas Renoir
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Manet
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• Postimpressionism
• Moving away from lights and
• shadow use
• Van Gogh George Seurat

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• Cubism / Futurism
• Glorified the influence of technology
• Picasso

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