new era history

Makeup began with american beauty 

Make up started in america in the 1920s and 1930s 

Max factor coined the term “make up” for everyday use outside of Hollywood 

Max factors claim to fame was the creation of 

• Pan-cake

Men wore 

• Two toned cap toe oxfords, lace up boots

• Hats: boaters, fedoras, newsboys caps, derby

• Hair: well oiled side part, clean shaven pencil moustaches 

• Yachting outfits, golfing knickers, tailcoats (fancy tails)

Emergency quota act - 1921 

• If in 1910 3,00 immigrants came, in 1921 only 90 could come  from that same specific country 

President harding was hard on immigration

• He was elected after Woodrow Wilson 

• He is a republican 

The jews could not leave Hitler

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

• Founded in 1929 when Ben Garza united 3 organizations in Texas

• Fought for the civil rights and desegregation of Latin Americans 

• Many mexican American families worked fields and farms in the American Southwest

• Some children were unable to attend school, and those who could were segregated to “Mexican schools” 

• Mexican Americans were not allowed to learn English - which prevented them from gaining employment in numerous careers.

Marcus Garvey 

• Born in Jamaica 

• Publisher, Journalist, Businessman, Activist, Politician, Speaker 

• The first voice for black nationalism: advocacy and support for african descendant across the globe 

• He believed if you are of african descent you should return to africa 

• In 1914 he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African  Communities League

• In 1919-1922 Black starline: transport company to take passengers to Liberia, Africa

• Rastafari has Garvey has the most influential leader of their time

• First genocide in the 20th century was in Africa: Hereo Genocide

Art Types  

Art Deco 

- modern sleek, anti traditional, sophisticated 

- gold, black, blues, greens, mauves, pinks, turquoise 

- EXAMPLE: Rockefeller center 

Expressionism

• Originated in Germany before WWI, it emphasized presentation of the world-internally and externally 

• Could imitate real life or fight accepted forms and norms 

• Edvard Munch, Wassily Kandinsky, Erich Heckel

• The cabinet of Dr.Caligari: 1920 silent German horror film considered a quintessential work of German Expressionist film 

• EXAMPLE: The Scream By: Edvard Munch, in March 1893 

Dadaism

• Began in Germany and Switzerland (1915ish-1922)

• Its purpose was to ridicule the meaninglessness of the modern world 

• Influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk rock. It went against the standards of society

• It stripped everything clean; showed every flaw, every “stretch mark” (wanted to be genuine)

• Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Elsa Von 

• EXAMPLE: The Skat Players By Otto Six, In 1920 

Surrealism

• Rose from Dadaism, but took the expression of dream-like, subconscious contrast of the world.

• Feels like an acid trip

• What is time? 

• Frida Kalo 

American Modernism

• Between WWI and WWII

• Focused on experimentation 

• Teacher got fired for showing a picture of a flower that resemble female body part 

The Jazz Age

• Louie Armstrong played the trumpet 

• Duke Ellington played the piano 

• A period in the U.S characterized as a period of carefree wealth, freedom, and youthful exuberance

• Fitzgerlad wrote the Great Gatsby 

Radium Girls

• Discovered in 1898 by Pierre and Marie Curie

• During WWI radium was combined with paint to make luminous paint for clock hands, dials, and navigation equipment 

• Young women were hired in factories to paint the instruments (an estimate in 4,000)

• The women were told to use their lips to create the perfect tip; when doing this they accidentally swallowed the radium  

• They started to get tumors 

• Their employers didn’t take their complaints seriously 

• Nickname was the Ghost Girls