bourgeois

Examples of bourgeois in the following topics:

• Dada and Surrealism

  • Dadaism was intensely anti-war, anti-bourgeois and held strong political affinities with the radical left.
  • For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war.
  • Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war.

• Die Brücke 

  • The group members initially "isolated" themselves in a working-class neighborhood of Dresden, aiming thereby to reject their own bourgeois backgrounds.

• Student Subcultures

  • Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson described youth subcultures as symbolic or ritualistic attempts to resist the power of bourgeois hegemony by consciously adopting behavior that appears threatening to the establishment.

• The Benefits of Communism

  • Both cultural and educational policy in communist states have emphasized the development of a "New Man"—a class-conscious, knowledgeable, heroic, proletarian person devoted to work and social cohesion, as opposed to the antithetic "bourgeois individualist" associated with cultural backwardness and social atomization.

• Neue Sachlichkeit

  • In concert with this evocation of angst and unease with bourgeois life, expressionists also echoed some of the same feelings of revolution as did Futurists.

• German Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • Holbein's well known series of small woodcuts on the Dance of Death relate to the works of the Little Masters, a group of printmakers who specialized in very small and highly detailed engravings for bourgeois collectors, including many erotic subjects.

• Defining Public Opinion

  • The Public Sphere, or bourgeois public is, according to Habermas, where "something approaching public opinion can be formed" (2004, p. 351).

• Surrealism

  • World War I scattered the writers and artists who had been based in Paris, and in the interim many became involved with Dada, believing that excessive rational thought and bourgeois values had brought the conflict of the war upon the world.

• Gender

  • The exhibition, "Inside the Visible," traveled globally and included artists' works from the 1930s through the 1990s, featuring: Claude Cahun, Louise Bourgeois, Bracha Ettinger, Agnes Martin, Carrie Mae Weems, Charlotte Salomon, Eva Hesse, Nancy Spero, Francesca Woodman, Lygia Clark, and Mona Hatoum, among others.

• Modern Life

  • Scenes from the bourgeois care-free lifestyle, as well as from the world of entertainment, such as cafés, dance halls, and theaters were among their favorite subjects .