Lost Generation Flashcards

135113473	Gertrude Stein	Famous writer who coined the phrase "lost generation"	0
135113474	Ernest Hemingway	Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms	1
135113475	lost generation	Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe	2
135113476	Oswald Spengler	German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936)	3
135113477	Arnold J. Toynbee	argues that societies are born, mature, decay, and sometimes die.	4
135113478	Karl Barth	Protestant theologian. Basic fact about people is that they are imperfect whose reason is flawed and should not expect to work out god and his ways.	5
135113479	Niokolai Berdiaev	Wrote, "Man's historical experience has been one of steady failure, and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else"	6
135113480	Albert Einstein	This 20th Century scientist revolutionized the way scientists thought about space, time and matter, the most notable being his theory of relativity.	7
135113481	theory of relativity	einsteins theory that time is different depending on how fast you travel or how massive of object that you are on	8
135113482	Werner Heisenberg	Stated the uncertainty principle	9
135113483	uncertainty principle	Impossible to measure both speed and position of an electron at the same time	10
135113484	Sigmund Freud	austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis	11
135113485	Oedipus complex	according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father	12
135113486	psychoanalysis	a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders	13
135113487	Paul Gauguin	Pioneered expressionist techniques. b. Saw form and design of a painting as important in themselves c. Became famous for his paintings of the South Pacific where he spent some time	14
135113488	Pablo Picasso	a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism, which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes	15
135113489	Edgar Degas	A nineteenth-century French painter and sculptor. Among his preferred subjects were ballet dancers and scenes of cafe life.	16
135113490	Bauhaus	school in germany, that influnced architecture by blending science and technology with design	17
135113491	Walter Gropius	German architect who broke form previous design with light, airy, bright buildings of glass and iron	18