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  • (1) Every person shall have the right to free development of his personality insofar as he does not violate the rights of others or offend against the constitutional order or the moral law. (2) Every person shall have the right to life and physical integrity. Freedom of the person shall be inviolable. These rights may be interfered with only pursuant to a law.
  • (1) Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.
  • (2) The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.
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  • (1) All persons shall be equal before the law.
  • Article 5[Freedom of expression, arts and sciences] (1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing and pictures, and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship. (2) These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal honour. (3) Arts and sciences, research and teaching shall be free. The freedom of teaching shall not release any person from allegiance to the constitution.
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  • t to an end an era of great intellectual and creative exuberance
  • rationing of paper affected the production of magazines and books;
  • was produced by established writers.
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  • this became even more intense with the worldwide economic collapse of the late 1920s and early ’30s, the rise of fascism
  • moral and religious significance in the midst of destruction and strove to counter the spirit of nationalism inevitably present in a nation at war.
  • and the poem and the short story,
  • The outbreak of war in 1939, as in 1914, brought to an end an era of great intellectual and creative exuberance.
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  • In the 1920s and 1930s visual arts in England had been flourishing, much in exchange with a vibrant European art scene
  • With the onset of the Second World War in September 1939 this open creative sphere was disrupted.
  • The attention of artists shifted to the events of the war and patriotic duty
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  • reflects the destruction of the capital better than words could have done.
  • documents the reinforcements set up on the British Isles to prevent any further progress of the enemy.
  • scarcity of material had led British artists to work in collaboration with the government as official war artists.
  • artists used their art more and more as a means of digesting the shock, re-establishing a shaken identity and finding hope.
  • The destruction had caused a return to documentary more naturalistic modes of visual expression.
  • After the Second World War
  • Abstract Expressionism, a movement where the expression of the internal response to landscape was expressed in painting.
  • Many artists left cities for the tranquillity nature had to offer.
  • it is an example for how well artists made use of the limited pigment available to reflect their surroundings.
  • work of art produced for sale, as World War II had left him at the risk of becoming destitute.
  • who had also served as an official war artist began to translate themes of suffering into landscape
  • visually links with Cubist painting
  • developed pre-war abstraction in the circle of St. Ives.
  • combines a landscape painting with a Cubist section
  • there was also a great demand for tranquil pictures.
  • shows early immigrants coming to Britain in the years after World War II, who were to crucially influence the multicultural society Britain is today.
  • This shows how artists in the 1950s had reclaimed creative production and had begun to find ways of expressing themselves more emotionally in their methods of painting and interpretation of the visual representation of their surroundings.
  • greater lightness and enthusiasm
  • content has become less important.
  • nature inspired artistic freedom and expression; perhaps here the flowing form is derived from textiles, which he and his wife worked with initially.
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  • Some of the artworks have been classics of the propaganda poster genre, like the “Careless talk costs lives” posters from the campaign against sharing sensitive information with civilians (especially dangerous blondes).
  • dramatic war scenes
  • Then there are the symbolic illustrations, like the proud Aslan-like lion representing England
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  • a landscape painter and graphic designer
  • posters, drawings, oil paintings, portraits, and caricatures
  • but never published.
  • flattering oil portraits of Allied leaders
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  • The "music of WW2" includes Big Band, Swing, dance music, ballads, romantic songs, and other genres.
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  • disillusionment as representative of the views of most soldiers who fought in the war. 
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  • British official war artists were a select group of artists who were employed on contract, or commissioned to produce specific works during the First World War, the Second World War and select military actions in the post-war period.
  • for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield;
  • A war artist creates a visual account of war by showing its impact as men and women are shown waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating,
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  • what lay on the near side of World War I is Modernism,
  • Modernism took shape decades before World War I, but its clamorous arrival was vastly accelerated by the greatest collective trauma in history to that point.
  • World War I reshaped the notion of what art is, just as it forever altered the perception of what war is.
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  • World War I remains the paradigmatic conflict of the modern age, not only politically but also culturally.
  • ynicism toward the ruling classes and disgust with war planners and profiteers led to demands for art forms that were honest and direct, less embroidered with rhetoric and euphemism.
  • "It's so deep in us; the poetry, the stories, the loss, the suffering is there in every village churchyard."
  • Surrealists and Expressionists devised wobbly, chopped-up perspectives and nightmarish visions of fractured human bodies and splintered societies slouching toward moral chaos.
  • "The First World War for British people is very much a part of who we are,"
  • Other artists clung to the shards of classical culture as a buffer against nihilistic disillusionment.
  • Irony and dissonant humor permeated the music of classical composers such as Alban Berg and Benjamin Britten, a pacifist who parodied marching-band pomposity in his Piano Concert in D.
  • World War I definitely gives a push forward to the idea of dystopia rather than utopia, to the idea that the world is going to get worse rather than better," Braudy said.
  • When war broke out in summer 1914, artists were among its biggest cheerleaders.
  • aw the war as necessary for reinforcing the continental status quo,
  • Germanyviewed it as an opportunity for "purging" Europe of political stagnancy and cultural malaise.
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  • During the Second World War, the British government took a more structured approach to collecting official war art than it had during the First World War.
  • The Ministry of Information set up the War Artists' Scheme (W.A.S) in 1939.
  • dominant figure of the British art world.
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  • 'to draw up a list of artists qualified to record the war at home and abroad, to advise on the selection of artists on this list for war purposes and on the arrangements for their employment'.
  • Artists who had worked during the First World War had varying success with the Committee during the Second.
  • Muirhead Bone, the first official war artist of the First World War appointed in 1916, achieved the same honour in 1939.
  • however, was offended to have some of his work rejected.
  • The committee had conservative taste and looked for representative, rather than abstract, works.
  • The committee's official purpose was propaganda.
  • to raise morale at home and promote Britain's image abroad.
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  • music distributed during World War I greatly influenced social and political attitudes, thereby serving as an effective propaganda tool for private citizens and governments.
  • Music permeates the spirit in ways that written words alone cannot do.
  • rought into play through the power of music,
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  • Songs became overwhelmingly patriotic, heroic, and jingoistic.
  • Men who did not respond to this song by enlisting at the rally were publicly humiliated as they left by being handed white chicken feathers by children who had been assigned this task.
  • glorify the navy, the army, and the new flying corps.
  • ongs were written urging men to join the military, and popular vocalists were hired to perform these songs at public recruiting rallies.
  • Instrumental marches, recruiting songs, flag songs, and songs praising women's efforts on the home front
  • Your King and Country Want You.
  • they expressed the feelings of British women who were stoically urging their sweethearts to military service for protection of their homes and country.
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  • The Nazi government took a strong interest in promoting Germanic culture and music, which returned people to the folk culture of their remote ancestors, while promoting the distribution of radio to transmit propaganda.
  • As the major powers entered war millions of citizens had home radio devices that did not exist in the First World War
  • World War II was a unique situation for music and its relationship to warfare.
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  • After the war most English writers chose to focus on aesthetic or social rather than political problems;
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  • produce a literary response equal to that of the First World War.
  • The Second World War has remained a theme in British literature.
  • hough some have seen modernism ending by around 1939,
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  • Many artists used music as an outlet to vent the frustration associated with the war or as a means of escape from its horrible brutality.
  • Many different types of music began after World War II,
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  • World War II had an even more profound impact than World War I on people's ideas about themselves and their place in the universe. The terrible fact of the atom bomb's existence shook their sense of stability. The postwar threat of the spread of Communism brought to attention the dangers to individual freedoms in a totalitarian state.
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  • self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse.
  • "Make it new."
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