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Back Through the Decades: The Ten's 1910 - 1920

Banned Books
Publication Date Range: 1910 - 1920

 

Art

Art Nouveau (1890-1914)

Art Nouveau was an international art movement that served a decorative function in the final decades of the nineteenth century. The name comes from a shop in Paris, so the movement was consequently known by other names in other parts of Europe. Art Nouveau made its biggest mark in the applied arts (glassware, ironworks, posters). It was the first artistic style to be promoted by mass communications.

Common characteristics:

  • Highly stylized, flowing lines
  • Organic, plant-inspired motifs
  • Well-known Art Nouveau artists: L. C. Tiffany, Toulouse-Lautrec

 

Modern Art (1900-present)

The twentieth century brought complete change in the art world. A flurry of movements followed the turn of the century - movements that rejected naturalism and classical traditions- including (but not limited to) Fauvism, Cubism, Naïve painting, and Expressionism.

 

Fauvism

  • From the French word fauves, meaning "wild beasts"
  • Use of non-naturalistic color
  • Short, energetic brushstrokes
  • Well-known Fauvist artists: Matisse, Dufy

 

Cubism

  • Less concerned with the illusion of depth and volume
  • Limited range of color
  • Analysis of form from several angles combined in one art piece well-known Cubist artists: Picasso, Braque, Gris
  • Well-known Cubist artists: Picasso, Braque, Gris

 

Naive

  • The work of artists with little or no formal training
  • Artist's lack of training seen as a strength and thought to bring freshness to the work
  • Awkwardly drawn figures
  • Bright, unnatural colors
  • Compositions crowded with detail
  • Well-known Naïve artists: Rousseau, Grandma Moses

 

Expressionism

  • Emphasis on highly personal psychological/emotional response of the artist to the subject
  • Pioneers of abstract art
  • Fought against modernization of the art process
  • Well-known Expressionist artists: Kirchner, Marc

 

Tefertiller, Michelle, and Tara Luse. Second Grade Enrichment: Supplement to the Classical Core Curriculum. Memoria Press, 2019. 

 

  • art and
    • 1910
    • 1920
    • ...

Exotic Landscape, 1910

Henri Rousseau (Modern Art - Naive Art)

Oil on canvas, Norton Simon Museum -- Pasadena, CA

The Wright Brothers at the International Aviation Tournament,

Belmont Park, Long Island, N.Y., October 1910 (Photograph)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division -- Washington, D.C.

I and the Village, 1911

Marc Chagall (Modern Art - Cubism)

Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art -- New York, NY

Apfelbaum I (Apple Tree I), 1912

Gustav Klimt (Art Nouveau)

Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

Elephant, Horse and Cow, 1914

Franz Marc (Modern Art - Expressionism)

Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

 

Government / Political Science
  • Colonial Korea
  • Mexican Revolution
  • Armenian Genocide
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Balkan Wars
  • WW1
  • The Great War
  • League of Nations
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • German U-boat

 

 

Literature
  • Literature and
    • World War I

 

Business / Economics
  • Middle class America
  • Panama Canal
  • Federal Reserve
  • Central Bank
  • International Law 
  • International Court of Justice
  • Prohibition  

 

 

 

Society / Culture
  • City development
  • Suburbs
  • The Great Fire of 1910 (3 million acres burned in ID, WA, MT)
  • Health - Influenza Pandemic
  • Gender roles
  • Diary and memoires
  • Boy Scouts of America
  • Ottomon rule
  • USA flag (46 stars, 1910)

 

STEM
  • Telephone
  • Air Mail
  • Hailey's Comet
  • Electric refrigerators
  • Electric air-conditioning units
  • Oreo (1912)
  • Life Savers (peppermint 1913)
  • Kraft Processed Cheese (1916)
  • Henry Ford (20k vehicles sold in 1910)

 

Hot Off the Press!

 

Los Angeles Times Historical Newspaper Database

Newspaper headlines form the South Bay region 1910 - 1920

Search by keyword, geographic location, and date

Accessible on and off campus

Music & Leisure
  • Ruth Etting
  • Arthur Collins
  • Komitas
  • Billy Murray
  • Al Jolson
  • John McCormack
  • Olive Kline
  • Alma Gluck
  • Nora Bayes

 

 

Film / Media

WW1: The Final Hours

Library Database: Academic Video Online

BBC Worldwide, 2018

48 Minutes

Panama Canal

Library Database: Academic Video Online

Public Broadcasting Service, 2011

1H 23M

American Humanitarianism in the Armenian Crucible: 1915-1923 

YouTube Channel: Library of Congress (keyword search, Armenia)

2015

1H 10M

  • Film
  • Automobile history
    • 1900
  • Aviation history
    • 1900
  • Penny Arcade
  • Motion Picture Patents Company (the Trust)
  • Movie Theaters
    • The nickelodeon (price was a nickel to watch a film)
  • Popular films
    • A Christmas Carol (silent film)
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    • The Unchanging Sea
    • The Lad from Old Ireland
    • An Arcadian Maid
    • Frankenstein
    • In Old California (1st movie filmed in Hollywood)
    • The Wizard of Oz (original version, 1910)

 

YouTube Channel: Glamourdaze

 

About Glamourdaze: 

"Glamourdaze.com brings the past back to life. I take early fragments of silent 16fps footage and restore them to life by a combination of manual frame by frame colorization as well as the use of deep exemplar-based video colorization techniques. The footage is upscaled and the frames interpolated to a higher frame rate ( in most cases 60 frames per second.) Finally I produce a soundtrack which helps build a new immersive experience for the viewer. The intent is to create a time travel experience. Glamourdaze is also a vintage fashion blog with color restored vintage, plus modern retro beauty tutorials. All films are licensed, procured by private agreement from relevant copyright holders, or deemed to be public domain. Where relevant, links are provided to permission granters and to public domain / creative commons archive sources".

Glamourdaze. YouTube, 17 December 2008, https://www.youtube.com/@glamourdaze/videos. 

 

Box Office Hit - The Birth of a Nation

Produced in 1915 - American Silent Epic Drama Film

Adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play, The Clansman

 

 

Theatrical Release Poster

 

Premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles (1915) and breaks box office and film length records.

 

Fashion
  • fashion
    • and 1910
    • and 1915
  • men and
    • Norfolk jackets 
    • ankle-length topcoats
  • women and
    • high collars
    • long skirts
    • intricate detailing
    • lace and embroidery
    • large hats adorned with feathers and flowers