EARLY 20^th-CENUTRY STYLES (PART II)

Dada- reaction to the prevailing institutions

-distrustful of order and reason

what is nihilism?

Marcel Duchamp

-L.H.O.O.Q. (1919)– "She has hot pants"

Albert Camus

-finding meaning

-living without meaning

John Paul Sartre

-what it means that "God is dead" (cf. Nietzsche)

-defining yourself

-the significance of choice

-existentialism is a humanism

Piet Mondrian (Fig. 21.17) vs. Kandinsky (20.17)

-The only referent to the image in the picture is the picture itself

-the real world and the imitation of it is no longer the basis for art

Reading: What is the thesis of Ruth Benedict?

What does Benedict mean by the "standardization of culture"?

In what ways might the argument of Benedict be challenged?

Cultural Relativism

Subjectivism

Ethnocentrism

Conceptual bigotry

-right or wrong in world

Decidophobia

Cynicism

Nihilism