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The Lost Generation
- 1. The Lost GenerationEurope between the Wars
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- 3. The Persistence ofMemory Dali
- 4. Pressenetment de laguerre civile Dali
- 5. Apparition of aFruit Dish and Face on a Beach Dali
- 6. Temptation of St.Anthony Dali
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- 8. This is nota pipe (translation) Magritte
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- 10. La Condition HumaineMagritte
- 11. Love Song DeChirico
- 12. Montparnasse Station DeChirico
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- 14. Portrait of GertrudeStein Picasso
- 15. Les Demoiselles D’AvignonPicasso
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- 17. Mother and ChildPicasso
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- 19. Two Women HoldingFlowers Leger
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- 26. Enrique Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front Robert Graves, Good-bye to All that, 1929
Editor's Notes
- #2 Post-World War I modernism includes well-known surrealists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte (particularly the famous Ceçi n'est pas une pipe , 1926), the Dada movement, or cubists such as Pablo Picasso ( Three Dancers , 1925, or Artist and Subject , 1928,) The the rejection of pre-World War I values is found in the loss of form and composition in many modern works. Fernand Léger's The City (1919) and many of his other works, in which the human form is reduced to simple geometric shapes is reminiscent of replaceable machine parts, illustrating the mechanization and emptiness of the interwar decades. In the same way, the late nineteenth century's optimism and pessimism are instantly recognizable works such as George Seurat's Sunday Afternoon at Le Grande Jatte (1884-6) and Edvard Munch's The Scream (1905). These examples ground the art in a broader context of the changing social circumstances, such as industrialization, international tensions, and reinforces the impact of art, which reinforces the historical transformation.