Achievements: Social Criticism

Dada: The Inspiration for all art [Duchamp, 'fountain'].An introduction to Dada (mostly in Germany but with a summary in English at the end. Note

• R. Hülsenbeck: DADA bedeutet nichts. Wir wollen die Welt mit nichts ändern.

• Hans Arp Die Schwalbenhode, 4. Tapa tapa tapa Pata pata Maurulam katapultilem i lamm Haba habs tapa Mesopotainem masculini Bosco & belachini Haba habs tapa Woge du welle Haha haha

• Hugo Ball, jolifanto,) ¿..wer gegen Dada ist, ist Dadaist..? = Whoever is against dada, is a Dadist."

• Compose a Dada poem. text: it is due to the employment of empathy for slaves in a public context that the people of Athens reflected upon the meaning of slavery, and therefore acknowledged their common humanity, making the good life possible for all. This reflection on slavery made it possible for not only citizens, but slaves to live the good, examined life. Because slaves were considered to share humanity with everyone else, slavery was considered by many to be only a physical and external limitation that had nothing to do with a person’s inherent worth.

• Core text.

  Dada Knows everything. Dada spits on everything. Dada says "knowthing,"
  Dada has no fixed ideas. Dada does not catch flies.
  Dada is bitterness laughing at everything that has been accomplished, sanctified....
  Dada is never right...
  No more painters, no more writers, no more religions, no more royalists, no more anarchists,
  no more socialists, no more politics, no more airplanes, no more urinals...
  Like everything in life, Dada is useless, everything happens in a completely idiotic way...
  We are incapable of treating seriously any subject whatsoever, let alone this subject: ourselves."

• A Berlin saying
• conquest of the machines
• don't worry...
• Collage by Grosz und Hertzfeld.
  
• Dada exhibit in Berlin; early ; 1928; in 1932 ;
• Hersfeld: self portrait with police captain
• Some dada texts in English
• A dada sonata and conclusion
• the world is wonderful!

• in art: 3mädel; dix-salon
• and on stage: berber1a, berber07, opiumtanz
• Contrast: Kirchner 1921 more conventional.

Achievements: Architecture and Design:

Bauhaus: Bauhaus: in Dessau; facade and in contrast to the classical style. As an institution of instruction: faculty, students, dorm room [restored], projects, instruction program

• Bauhaus Manifesto:
  • Fagus Factory; Dammerstock Waschhaus;
  • skyscrapers: one, and two, and three ; mies proposal and seagram; Tribune Tower; Gropius ,PanAm Building/Met Life. Mies1, Mies2; Gropius hospital and desktop; Lost building, and desktop. also in SaMo
• houses: 1922; 1927 (Barcelona); 1929; farnsworth one; two, three ; four; Tugendhat House (1930 Brno, Czech Republic)
• furniture: one ; two; three; four; five ; Barcelona chair; Brandt 1; Brandt 2; Brandt 3; Cantilever. Mies in his chair. Gropius F-51. Modern Examples: chair; couch
• Other Bauhaus Designs: typeface; ashtray; door handle. Kitchen
• The fate of the School. Its students.
• and its rebirth.

Achievements is Art: Neue Sachlichkeit = New Objectivity:

• Paintings: from Paul Klee; Kandinsky1; Kandinsky2; Kandinsky 3; Franz Marc; Kandinsky-weilheim; Schad: Operation.
• Some Portraits:
• Schad: FranRoh, Lotte, Sonja, Dr. Heurath, Maika, Gräfin Triani; xx; zz;
• Dix: parents, art critic. Otto Dix Man_smoking; but also Reichenau.
• Grosz: his parents, Head of the household; but also: Spaziergang; Cape Cod;
• Criticism: Dix bigcity; war; Groz: artillary.
• Politically active: International

Achievments in Music:

• 12tone (select 12);
• Josephine Baker; in her most famous outfit. link to her most famous song, la petite tonkinoise; note page 200.

The election of Hindenburg in propaganda

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• Gottfried Habeler: international trade, "comparative advantage", "opportunity cost"
• Friedrich Hayek:"how pricing communicates information"; theory of money, road to serfdom.
• John Maynard Keyes: General Theory, Economic Consequenes, father of Quantitative Easing / leverage in deficit spending.
• Joseph Schumpeter: His concept of Creative Destruction: that process by which progress [living standards, science, etc.] depends on the destruction of the old order. Because the old order will oppose and obstruct, it must be removed preferrably by peaceful means, and, once it is removed, human innovation and energy are liberated:
  • ..the same process of industrial mutation [...] that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. It is what capitalism consists in and what every capitalist concern has got to live in.
  • "In breaking down the framework of society, capitalism thus broke not only barriers that impeded its progress but also flying buttresses that prevented its collapse. That process, impressive in its relentless necessity, was not merely a matter of removing institutional deadwood, but of removing partners of the capitalist stratum, symbiosis with whom was an essential element of the capitalist schema. [... T]he capitalist process in much the same way in which it destroyed the institutional framework of earlier society also undermines its own. Classic case: LP to Tape to Cassette to CD to digital music

• Thornton: empathy, humanity, SSR in public context
• Brucker: inclusion, social mobility, fiscal resources, SSR in public context
• Friedrich: demise of old order, catharsis, liberation ==> creative destruction.