Modernism - The Impact of World War One and The Dada Movement

People's century: Killing Fields

- Troops from Germany, Russia, China, India, New Zeeland, Australia, Britain, France

- People were exited about the war, previously hadn't been much violence, didn't think it would last very long

Joe Sacco's The Great War

-Created a book called " The Great War" depicting the first day of the Battle of the Somme . It goes on for 24 feet

-Summer of 1916

-Took references from the pictures at the Imperial War Museum- wanted to focus on the small details of how things are done

-Giving each soldier a personality, showing the process of war - journey there, trenches, being killed.

-Shows how industrialism takes over, men being killed through weaponry

-10,000 British soldiers were killed within the first hour

-Jaws of Death

-Spent time with soldiers from Iraq, concerned out themselves and friends

-Why do we do this to ourselves?

What is Dada

-Literal and artistic movement that occurred in several European cities

-First founded in Cabaret Voltaire Zurich 1916 by Hugo Ball, Emmy Hemmings

-Ready Made art

-Picabia liked looking at mechanisms particularly in America- Links to the industrialisation of the war, hidden ironic messages

- Anti art movements

-Hanna Hoch, collage techniques, Weimar Germany from a women's perspective

-Brought on the Surrealist movement

-Is still referenced in modern artwork - David Bowie through costume

-Nonsensical, fresh thinking approaches

Marcel Duchamp-Fountain 1917, replica 1964

- Ready made art

-Submitted to the society of independent artists (a group he founded and was a member of) , the idea being anything was considered art

- SIA said it was indecent and was rejected from show

-He resigned from the group and had the piece photographed on a pedis tool published the photo in a magazine that he created

-The rejection makes the artwork more popular

-It was peed on at the Tate Modern as part of art

Raoul Hausmann The Art Critic 1919–20

-Made by one of the founding members of the Dada movement

-German banknote behind the neck to suggest he's controlled by capital forces

-Political satire

George Heartfield any of the political collages 1930-8.