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1. INTRODUCTION TO MODERN
WESTERN CULTURE
Prof. Simon Morley
Lecture:
Science, Technology, Urbanization,
the Mass Media, and Art
1900 - 1920

2. Science
• the intellectual and practical activity
encompassing the systematic study of the
structure and behaviour of the physical and
natural world through objective observation
and experiment.

3. Technology
1.the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.
"advances in computer technology”
•machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.
•the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.

4. Urbanization
• becoming more like a city. When populations
of people grow, the population of a place may
spill over from city to nearby areas. This is
called urbanization.

5. The City in History
500 AD 500000 Constantinople Turkey
575 AD 500000 Ctesiphon Iraq
600 AD 600000 Daxing (Chang'an) China
800 AD 700000 Baghdad Iraq
935 AD 450000 Cordova Spain
1100 AD 1000000 Kaifeng China
1160 AD 250000 Fez Morocco
1180 AD 250000 Polonnaruwa Sri Lanka
1210 AD 500000 Merv Turkmenistan
1300 AD 1500000 Hangzhou China
1350 AD 660000 Cairo Egypt
1400 AD 1000000 Jinling China
1500 AD 1000000 Beijing China
1700 AD 1000000 Ayutthaya Thailand
1850 AD 2320000 London UK
1925 AD 7774000
New York (urban
area)
United States
2000 AD 20500000 Tokyo (urban area) Japan

14. Albert Einstein

15. Sigmund Freud

16. Mass media
The means of communication to a large population — a mass of people.
These generally include newspapers, magazines, radio, or television.
mass culture - the popular culture that is widely disseminated via the
mass media.

17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CaieEwEuiw
Take a look at the Year 1912

19. Robert Delaunay, 1912

21. Robert Delaunay

22. • 1. Primitivism
Picasso,
Les Damoiselles d’Avignon,
1907

23. Picasso landscape, 1909.

24. CUBISM
One of the most influential art movements (1907- c1920) of the twentieth
century, Cubism was begun by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1882-1973) and
Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) in 1907. They were greatly inspired
by African sculpture, by painters Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906) and
Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891), and by Fauvism. In Cubism the
subject matter is broken up, analyzed and reassembled in an abstracted
form.

25. 1. Analytic Cubism
Picasso, 1910

26. Picasso, 1911

27. Picasso, collage, 1912

28. Braque, 1912

29. Picasso, collage 1912
collage – an artwork made by sticking various
different materials such as photographs, magazine and
newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored
paper or fabric onto a flat surface.

30. Picasso, collage, 1913

31. Braque, collage, 1912

32. Fernand Léger

34. FUTURISM
Futurism or futurism – A movement originating among Italian
artists in 1909, when the poet Filippo Marinetti's first manifesto of
futurism appeared, and lasting into the 1920’s. It was a celebration of
the machine age, glorifying war, and later supporting the growth of
fascism. Futurist works were especially concerned with expressing
movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms.
Important artist include Giacomo Balla (Italian, 1871-1958), Carlo
Carrà (Italian, 1881-1966), Umberto Boccioni (Italian, 1882-1916

36. Gino Severini, 1914

37. Severini, Armoured Train, 1915

38. Giacomo Balla, 1915

39. Balla, 1912

40. Balla, Speeding Car, 1913

41. Carlo Carra, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, 1911

42. Carlo Carra, Demonstration, 1913

43. Fernand Léger, ‘Ballet Mechanique’ (1924) film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgsqmQJAq0
Futurist Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcHJySm7ZO0