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Conflicts about Art

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

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Conflicts about Art

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  1. Conflicts about Art Week Three, G125 Humanities, Chapter 15

  2. 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.

  3. How some Artists fared in their lifetime: • Belated Recognition • Salieri • Van Gogh Recognition in life Shakespeare Michelangelo Goya Picasso Tennessee Williams Aaron Douglas – Harlem Renaissance

  4. Reasons for Conflict • Religious Content • Political Views • Sexual Content • The Artist’s Behavior

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. Diego Rivera’s Man, Controller of the Universe

  8. Sexual Content • EdouardManet – 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

  9. 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.”

  10. Repressive Measures against Art • Suppression of “degenerate” art • Membership in different political groups • Moral Censorship • Stereotyping as a form of suppression • Persistence of stereotypes

  11. 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!!

  12. Frida’s Art

  13. 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.”

  14. 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

  15. 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 he agreed with the committee • Jackie Robinson • Others?

  16. 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

  17. 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)

  18. Key Terms • Assimilation • Blasphemy • Communism • Degenerate Art • Fifth Amendment • HUAC • Stereotype • Stream of Consciousness

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