- Cold War

 

 

 

 


Pollock, Lavender Mist # 1 (1950)


Giacometti, Man Pointing 1947


Rothko, No. 14, 1960


Jasper Johns, Flag (1954-55)


Bacon,  Painting, 1946


de Kooning Woman V (1952-53)


Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, 1942-1959


LeCorbusier, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1950-54


van der Rohe, Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, New York City (1958)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What was the ideological split of Europe during the Cold War and how was this expressed economically, politically, socially and artistically?
  • What factors contributed to the Cold War and to what extent was it a struggle over the meaning of the Enlightenment?
  • Did the end of the Cold War signify the final destruction of the ideology of Communism?
  • What was the impact of the Cold War on Europe? On the world?

 Cold War Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 Cold War Art:

Cold War Literature:

 Cold War Music:

Primary Sources:

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Primary Sources:
Cold War Documents:
The Debate about Marxism:

Existentialism:

Post-Structuralism:

Liberalism: 

  • Fraser, Isaiah Berlin: what is Liberalism (Guardian)
  • Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil
  • Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia
  • Rawls, A Theory of Justice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Novels:

Soviet Science Fiction:

  • Ivan Efremov’s Andromeda (1957) 
  • Daniel Granin’s Into the Storm (1962)
  • Strugatsky brothers (Arkady and Boris) Predatory Things of the Century (1965) 
  • Romm’s Nine Days (1962)
  • Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Solaris (1972)

Short Stories:

Plays:

Film:

  • De Sica, The Bicycle Thief (1948)
  • Fellini, La Strada (1954); Nights of Cabiria (1957); 8 1/2 (1963)
  • Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  • Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night (1955); Through a Glass Darkly (1961); Winter Light (1963); Persona (1966)
  • Truffaut, The 400 Blows (1959); Jules and Jim (1962)
  • Godard, Breathless (1960)
  • Antonioni, L'Aventura (1960); Blow-Up (1966)
  • Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and  Love the Bomb (1964)
  • Lumet, Fail Safe (1964)
  • Bunuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  • Fassbinder, The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) 
  • Tarkovsky, Andrei Rublev (1966);  Stalker (1979),  Nostalgia (1983)

Poetry:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Newman, Concord ( (1949)


1287 Transonic flight: piercing the sound barrier

1332 Moment of inertia, secrecy, and satellite stability

1578 The brief day of the great flying boats

1842 Who was first in space? It depends on what you call space 

1859 Waiting for HAL 9000: the lure of artificial intelligence 

1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants

2188 The day the earth moved: plate tectonics and the right question

Cold War Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious Thought:

 Cold War Art:

 Cold War Literature:

Cold War  Music:

Secondary Sources:

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Existentialism:

Totalitarianism:

Marxism:

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 Cold War Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

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Lesson Plans and Presentations:

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