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The artists, writers, and thinkers of the post-WWI world were undoubtedly brilliant. They were also about as fun as a funeral.
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the creative scene after World War one was very angsty. and of course
- 00:07
artists and intellectuals were feeling pretty blue. no one likes a war not even
- 00:12
if it inspires some cool war poetry. but these folks believed that the war had [poetry pictured]
- 00:16
occurred because leaders and nations engaged in the same destructive
- 00:19
behaviors over and over agai.n the creative class thought that this was far
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more tragic than the war itself. and so artistically speaking they decided to
- 00:28
toss out the old and bring in the new. artists rebelled against realism and
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instead embraced fantasy worlds. Mordor Narnia Oh different types of fantasy
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world. our bad. they passed over the pastels for bold colors and distorted
- 00:44
lines. Architects wanted nothing to do with the grandiose structures that
- 00:48
hearkened back to colonial empires. instead they focused on saving money and
- 00:53
inspiring efficiency by using new industrial materials to build. well
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Marcel Duchamp was a painter and sculptor who played with plastic and [Duchamp pictured]
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cubes. Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. his
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1937 painting Guernica is one of the best depictions of the destructive power
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of war in existence. as for the german walter gropius he was one of the
- 01:17
founding fathers of modern architecture. the writers of the post-world War one
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era were all about despair fear and loss. these pen and paper pushers who came of
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age during the conflict were so enthralled by these themes that they
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took to calling themselves the lost generation. someone lend them a GPS there
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stat. Ernest Hemingway was an ambulance driver turned author who got hurt in the
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war and went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. if you haven't read the [Hemingway pictured]
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old man in the sea then you have a far kinder English teacher than we did. F
- 01:49
scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. he wrote some other stuff too but the
- 01:53
tragic tale of Jay gat is the one you've heard of. Gertrude Stein was an American
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pioneer of modernist literature who ditched medical school for Paris in 1903.
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and William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet who helped found the National
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Theatre of Ireland and won the Nobel Prize in Literature. we've talked about
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the doers and analysts about the thinkers. well Albert
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Einstein was just awesome. seriously go and read his general theory
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of relativity. it's beautiful. Friedrich Nietzsche was a german philosopher who
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died in 1900. so why are we including him here? because his work was incredibly [Nietzsche pictured]
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influential in good ways and bad after his death. and then there was Sigmund
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Freud who came up with psychoanalysis and the Oedipus complex amongst other
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things. clearly World War 1 provided fertile soil for the creative talents of
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the Western world. it's nice to know the war didn't kill everything? right? [men cut down apple trees]
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