Bilingual History 4th ESO

“At the beginning of the roaring twenties, the United States was converting from a wartime to peacetime economy. When weapons for World War I were no longer needed, there was a temporary stall in the economy. After a few years, the country prospered. In this decade, America became the richest nation on Earth and a culture of consumerism was born. It was the time of the $5 workday, good worker pay for those days. People spent money for better roads, tourism, and holiday resorts. Real estate booms, most notably in Florida, sent land prices soaring.” Famous People at that time Alcapone ( one of the most famous gangsters of all time ) Amelia Earhar (First female to fly over the Atlantic ocean) Betty Boop ( the sex symbol crown queen of the animated screen)             Ford Motor Company owner "I do not believe in routine charity. I think it a shameful thing that any man should have...

Now we are dealing with the revolutionary development that art underwent from Impressionism (around 1880) up to the 1970s. We are going to use an aicle (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras) from Junta de Andalucía. There is the link for the pdf archive. Revolution of Modern Art There you will find activities to understand the latest art. Now an example of what we are going to find: The Kidnapping of modern art by the New Yorker (Russell Connor) 68" x 64" 1985 Collection of John Parker Willis In the 1980s a French critic named Serge Guilbaut wrote a book called How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art. Provoked by such works as Irving Sandler's famous The Triumph of American Painting, Guilbaut claimed that the postwar boom in the New York art world was due to a sinister conspiracy led by the U.S. government, with the aid of galleries and critics, to bring the center of the art world from Paris to New York. They did it by making Abs...