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Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment with a Bird in the Air Pump, 1769, oil on canvas. This historical painting captures the spirit of the enlightenment as though Joseph Wright of Derby were there, although it is painted 100 years after the beginning of the enlightenment. We see a shift in attitude towards science in this painting.
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Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog demonstrates the philosophical and ideological effects of the industrial revolution individualism and romanticism.
Friedrich, Caspar David. "Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog." Hamberger Kunstalle. 1817. Hamberger Kunstalle. Accessed March 31, 2014. http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/index.php/19th_Century.html. -
Boulevard du Temple, Daguerreotype, 1838, Daguerre. This is the earliest surviving daguerreotype featuring human beings as subjects (in the streets). This photograph demonstrates the effectiveness of the daguerreotype as a medium for capturing what is directly in front of the camera.
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Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1908. This painting shows the dual sides of the fin de siecle/belle epoque mindset. On the one hand, there are obvious shows of decadence and gradeur in the oainting. But it also displays nostalgia and a sense of dread as well.
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Signed June 1919, the treaty of Versailles is an agreement of peace between Germany and the tallies of Europe at the end of the second world war. This primary source is the event of choice for this topic and so it is perfect.
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The Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925. The film that demonstrated Eisenstein's perfected method of creating meaning through "montage", which was used by the soviet's for propagandic ends in the USSR.
