European Community. European Economic Community Art and Literature Jean Dubuffet--art brut; more human- like, authentic, expressive of the real humanity.
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Art and Literature
• Jean Dubuffet--art brut; more human-like, authentic, expressive of the real humanity of WWII and beyond. Gritty.
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Abstract Expressionism
• Art scene moves to New York, baby!
• Jackson Pollack splashes paint on the canvas.
• “action painting”
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Lavender Mist--195
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Literature
• Samuel Beckett’s “Theater of the Absurd” in Waiting for Godot (1952)
• Gunter Grass (not Gunther Gnass)--The Tin Drum and many other books
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Existentialism
• Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness and No Exit among many works) “Existence precedes essence”
• We make meaning out of our own lives--much angst.
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Absurdism
• Albert Camus (the Stranger)
• Close to existentialism; we can find meaning in ourselves, maybe. Perhaps there’s outside meaning to life, but we can’t know it.
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