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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero

Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Arts

Chapter Outline

  1. Total War: World War I
    1. nature of the war
    2. literary responses
      1. poetry: Owen and Yeats
      2. prose: Remarque
      3. visual arts: Ernst, Grosz, and Leger
    3. experimental film
  2. The Russian Revolution
    1. Lenin and Stalin
    2. socialist realism
  3. The Great Depression
    1. literature
    2. mural painting
    3. photography
  4. Totalitarianism and World War II
    1. Hitler and the Nazi order
    2. nature of the war
    3. poetry: Jarrell and Shuson
    4. prose: Heller and Wiesel
    5. film and photojournalism
  5. The Arts in the War Era
    1. Picasso's Guernica
    2. music
      1. Shostakovich and Prokofiev
      2. Britten
      3. Penderecki
  6. Chinese Communism and the Arts