Displaying 1 Episode of The Year That Was with the tag “art history”.
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A Gladiator's Gesture: Art after the Great War
September 24th, 2019 | Season 1 | 42 mins 46 secs
1919, american history, art history, dada, european history, return to order, season 1, surrealism, world history
In 1919, two competing art movements went head-to-head in Paris. One was The Return to Order, a movement about purity and harmony. The other was Dada, a movement about chaos and destruction. Their collision would change the trajectory of Western art.