2 Assignments. Respond to 4 questions each about select reading and visual material.. Answers must be detailed and show that you understand the material.

2 Assignments. Respond to 4 questions each about select reading and visual material.. Answers must be detailed and show that you understand the material.

User_8609 added on 03/31/16 at 12:41 AM (PST):

For the bonus assignment, it is a group discussion. Part 1 is the initial post, and part 2 is the responses. I will post part 2 after part 1 is complete

User_8609 added on 04/06/16 at 03:02 AM (PST):

bonus - response 1: The incredible amount of violence and death resulting from The Great War in Europe led many European intellectuals to contemplate and discuss the senselessness of war and bloodshed which had enveloped their generation. Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier and writer, reflected upon such notions in his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, where he used his first hand experience as a soldier in the trenches to illustrate the horrors of war and the fear and introspection which followed, through the eyes of his narrator. As his main character recovered in a military hospital, he reflected upon the senselessness of war and the resulting agony and death suffered by the soldiers. Remarque wrote, It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is. He articulated the developing disillusionment amongst the intellectuals of Europe about notion of the supremacy of western culture. Remarque highlighted this notion profoundly by writing, I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more redefined and enduring. His observations about the wasted innovations and creative and scientific efforts are especially poignant today. If instead of creating new weapons and new ways to fight in wars, as well as counter efforts to protect ourselves from those who are looking to wage war, todays brightest minds were focussed on something like renewable energy, the world would be a very different place.

Otto Dix, another artist who used his first hand experience from the front lines of The Great War, depicted the grotesque brutality and horror of the battle field as way to protest the war. In image 5.3-C10, The War, Dix depicts a battle in a series of four panels, each illustrating different scenes in which soldiers suffer the coneqeinces of the violence and agony of war. This print is a far cry from the typical war propaganda, in which one side is clearly the victory, defeating the enemy and wining the battle with divine glory. The War, instead highlights the terror, death and suffering of the soldiers, through the graphic imagery of gore and destruction. There is no indication of which side the soldiers are on, alternatively, Dix portrays the loss and suffering of human life for all the soldiers, as equal human beings, not enemy and victor. His work strives to illustrate the grotesque and horrible nature of battle in an effort to draw attention to the human cost of such needless violence.

User_8609 added on 04/06/16 at 03:02 AM (PST):

bonus - response 1: The incredible amount of violence and death resulting from The Great War in Europe led many European intellectuals to contemplate and discuss the senselessness of war and bloodshed which had enveloped their generation. Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier and writer, reflected upon such notions in his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, where he used his first hand experience as a soldier in the trenches to illustrate the horrors of war and the fear and introspection which followed, through the eyes of his narrator. As his main character recovered in a military hospital, he reflected upon the senselessness of war and the resulting agony and death suffered by the soldiers. Remarque wrote, It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is. He articulated the developing disillusionment amongst the intellectuals of Europe about notion of the supremacy of western culture. Remarque highlighted this notion profoundly by writing, I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more redefined and enduring. His observations about the wasted innovations and creative and scientific efforts are especially poignant today. If instead of creating new weapons and new ways to fight in wars, as well as counter efforts to protect ourselves from those who are looking to wage war, todays brightest minds were focussed on something like renewable energy, the world would be a very different place.

Otto Dix, another artist who used his first hand experience from the front lines of The Great War, depicted the grotesque brutality and horror of the battle field as way to protest the war. In image 5.3-C10, The War, Dix depicts a battle in a series of four panels, each illustrating different scenes in which soldiers suffer the coneqeinces of the violence and agony of war. This print is a far cry from the typical war propaganda, in which one side is clearly the victory, defeating the enemy and wining the battle with divine glory. The War, instead highlights the terror, death and suffering of the soldiers, through the graphic imagery of gore and destruction. There is no indication of which side the soldiers are on, alternatively, Dix portrays the loss and suffering of human life for all the soldiers, as equal human beings, not enemy and victor. His work strives to illustrate the grotesque and horrible nature of battle in an effort to draw attention to the human cost of such needless violence.