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Conflicts about Art. Week Three, G125 Humanities, Chapter 15. Objectives for this week:. Analyze the conflicts that have arisen between society and its artists Assess the role that different groups have played in suppressing the Humanities - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Conflicts about ArtWeek Three, G125 Humanities, Chapter 15
Objectives for this week:
Analyze the conflicts that have arisen between society and its artists
Assess the role that different groups have played in suppressing the Humanities
Discuss the five major causes for social conflicts in the Humanities.
Describe some of the measures taken against artists
Explain the stages of stereotyping and the impact such stereotyping has, especially on women.
How some Artists fared in their lifetime:
Belated Recognition Salieri Van Gogh
Recognition in lifeShakespeareMichelangeloGoyaPicassoTennessee WilliamsAaron Douglas – Harlem Renaissance
Reasons for Conflict Religious Content Political Views Sexual Content The Artist’s Behavior
Religious Content Moliere – Tartuffe
the word "tartuffe” designates a hypocrite who ostensibly and exaggeratedly feigns virtue, especially religious virtue
Martin Scorsese – Last Temptation of Christ Showed Jesus as a married man with children
Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ Incredibly graphic violence and suffering
Dan Brown – Da Vinci Code Catholic church opposed to the portrayal of Opus Dei
Harry Potter Witchcraft and Wizardry = devil
Native Americans Hostility toward Native Americans who practiced their religious
ceremonies—people considered them inferior
Political Views Richard Wright – Native Son
Native Son is about how society’s stereotypes put a black man in a terrible position in a wealthy white man’s house.
Diego Rivera – mural in Rockefeller Center included Lenin—Man, Controller of the Universe—see next slide
Middle East -- Many governments censor films – for example, Turkey banned a film called Yol (The Road of Life). The movie showed Kurds standing up against military repression and cruel treatment of women.
Diego Rivera’s Man, Controller of the
Universe
Sexual Content Edouard Manet – Olympia
painting (opposite) James Joyce – Ulysses D.H. Lawerence – Lady
Chatterly’s Lover Censorship stops people from
writing – who knows how many other great writers there have been, but we don’t know of because of censorship
Artist’s Behavior Oscar Wilde - Bio
The love that dare not speak its name.
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
Repressive Measures against Art
Suppression of “degenerate” art Membership in different political groups Moral Censorship Stereotyping as a form of suppression Persistence of stereotypes
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo Crippled in a trolley crash
when she was 19 Art always overshadowed
by husband Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera—painted murals
“Man at the Crossroads” in Rockefeller Center—demolished before people could see it over the inclusion of Lenin
Frida—The Movie—FANTASTIC!!
Frida’s Art
Suppression of “Degenerate” Art
Hitler and Goebbels set out to purge the nation of “degenerate art”
Destroyed all art by “foreigners”—see next entry:
Burned all books by “foreigners” – Jews, Bolsheviks, modernists, homosexuals, or anyone else at odds with “Aryan purity.”
House (on)Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC)– Committee formed to
get rid of anyone, or any group they deemed, “Un-American”. Anyone with radical ideas such as equal rights, fair pay, etc. was brought before the committee.
“Are you now, or have you ever been. . .”
Paul Robeson Richard Wright (video – 4:21) Arthur Miller
Witch Hunts
HUAC, continued Many other people were
brought before the committee
The first clip is on the Hollywood people brought before the committee: watch for the part on the Hollywood 10 who defied the committee.
The Hollywood Blacklist: 1947-1960
Arthur Miller: writer Walt Disney –argued that h
e agreed with the committee
Jackie Robinson Others?
Women and the Humanities
Virginia Woolf Shakespeare’s Sister
Early Exceptions to the rule Ancient Greek women
were recognized. Progress (Getting Closer)
!Women Art Revolution
Danger of Censorship How many writers, artists, musicians, etc.
have not produced art because of the fear of censorship.
Personally, I think that if you haven’t gone through a censorship issue, you have no idea how personally devastating it can be.
Remember that people committed suicide after being accused of being Communist by the HUAC.
“In a free society art is not a weapon... Artists are not engineers of the soul.” (John F. Kennedy)
Key Terms Assimilation Blasphemy Communism Degenerate Art Fifth Amendment HUAC Stereotype Stream of Consciousness