European Community

European Economic Community

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Art and Literature

• Jean Dubuffet--art brut; more human-like, authentic, expressive of the real humanity of WWII and beyond. Gritty.

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Abstract Expressionism

• Art scene moves to New York, baby!

• Jackson Pollack splashes paint on the canvas.

• “action painting”

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Lavender Mist--195

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Literature

• Samuel Beckett’s “Theater of the Absurd” in Waiting for Godot (1952)

• Gunter Grass (not Gunther Gnass)--The Tin Drum and many other books

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Existentialism

• Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness and No Exit among many works) “Existence precedes essence”

• We make meaning out of our own lives--much angst.

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Absurdism

• Albert Camus (the Stranger)

• Close to existentialism; we can find meaning in ourselves, maybe. Perhaps there’s outside meaning to life, but we can’t know it.

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