Modern Thought and Culture in 1900: Crash Course European History #31

[@zackakai5173]

"This painting looks like being on the internet feels" That might be the truest statement ever uttered on Crash Course.

[@pocok5000]

have you watched world history?

[@LuinTathren]

3:20 Correction: the term is "mono no aware" (物の哀れ). The explanation is correct, although it's difficult to translate completely.

[@eruno_]

I watched it myself and didn't notice that they misspelled it lol

[@LuinTathren]

@@eruno_ It happens.

[@sunn7045]

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[@Rocketboy1313]

The advent of photography, both then and now, meant that using art like paintings and sculpture to capture reality became less important. Instead pushing into abstraction, unreality, and surreal became necessary. While there is a tremendous amount of skill in capturing reality, there is a lot to be said and appreciated in capturing something that does not exist and communicating it to people in a way that makes them grow as people.

[@walkerjohnclark]

Yeah, and impressionism became prominent in the late 19th century.

[@cameronwhittle784]

Rocketboy 1313 Look at the late Renaissance works like that of Raphael. It’s the most realistic paintings had ever been but it does not depict any real scenes. The School of Athens. This is and was great art, photography does not reduce the value of this kind of art. I don’t understand why artist moved away from this form, Photography cannot be the sole reason.

[@ACivillage]

well me, an Indian, watching an American show as soon as it gets uploaded and commenting my thoughts over it, is certainly something extraordinary which we as a generation has achieved that's what might be remembered after 100 years from now

[@Udontkno7]

Aniket shrivastava Yeah, seems pretty cool that me, an American, can reply to your comment on this website where anyone from any country can do the same. Social media is crazy.

[@ACivillage]

@@Udontkno7 yup.😊

[@bennymacaroni]

@@Udontkno7 more difficult in some countries. Being an American in Taiwan, China comes to mind.

[@ACivillage]

@@bennymacaroni yeah that's true and it might be remembered as well Like 'the control that some governments wants to, and if possible then do, exert on their citizens' right to speech. Or precisely right to unfiltered INTERNET

[@lhfirex]

That Freudian slip joke was fantastic.

[@danimelma]

huh? I think I missed it :(

[@DareToRS]

danimelma - 9:43 “A Freudian slip is when you say one thing, but you mean your mother.”

[@danimelma]

@@DareToRS ooooohhh!!!! So that is why I missed it! Because I was "listening" to the episode and the joke is "written" and not "said" by John... ok, thanks! :)

[@DareToRS]

danimelma - You’re very welcome! :)

[@azraaydn737]

DareToRS oh my ahahahah i read it as OTHER omg ty

[@Kalashnikovification]

now I want an art history with John green, make it happen crash course!

[@MungareMike]

Check 'The Art Assignment' channel. John was presented some early material there. But the channel itself is so good and entertaining

[@weekasi1]

@@finlayson6868 Why not?

[@weekasi1]

@@finlayson6868 What do you know about classical music?

[@TheBc99]

@@finlayson6868 These videos are only meant to be brief and summative. Everything is boiled down and essentialized, not just art and music but politics and social history too. I know it might piss you off when something you're very specialized in is glossed over but ... that's what history surveys do. No doubt people who wish to learn more can and will find the information themselves.

[@victorangeles655]

FINALLY IT CAME OUT IT'S BEEN LIKE TWO WEEKS

[@Madhattersinjeans]

Just like my ex-wife. nyuk nyuk nyuk. I don't actually have an ex-wife. But the setup is to good to ignore.

[@LOVEMUFFIN_official]

I had to double check to make sure that I hadn’t missed an episode.

[@dependmymood8331]

@@Madhattersinjeans hi

[@RyanPHill77]

John Green’s history series (world 1 and 2, US, and European) have changed and enriched my life. They have influenced my teaching style, and inspired me to further study history, even topics that I don’t even teach. Thank you, and please keep churning out more!

[@jessicamarshall1975]

The best thing (read: funny and sometimes disturbing) about Freud is literally how far he would go to associate everything with sex and genitalia.

[@pocket7829]

I love these series 😌 I think it'd be interesting if you guys did a music history/music theory course, too 😆

[@DakkogiRauru23]

Note that Nitchze said “God is dead” in horror. “We’ll never find enough water to wash away all the blood.”

[@bennymacaroni]

That last bit was intense. I hope there even are still historians one hundred years from now, instead of just feral teenagers dying from toxic atmosphere and battling for fresh water.

[@abuhuraira3685]

The books are as hard to understand as life itself This is modernism

[@Gguy061]

BRING BACK RIOTING IN CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS

[@Beryllahawk]

The future is up to us. That's terrifying. Really, truly, make-your-soul-pee-itself terrifying.

[@holaisaaa]

One of the all time best and one of my favorite crash course videos! Bravo John! Loved the art history bits most of all, the openness about therapy, and the commentary at the last part. Everything we do affects the future and how it is shaped, it’s a good reminder as we continue into the new year.

[@MrArthurtea]

OH MY GOD JOHN!!!, I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT NEW CRASH COURSE VIDEOS!!!

[@Zzzeeetttaaa]

It's a shame Alphonse Mucha's name wasn't mentioned on the Art Nouveau part

[@matejeber91]

True. Especially after he talked so much about this period!

[@friendlysharkce1831]

I mean I assosiate Art Nuvogue really intensely with Mucha, so maybe mentioning it and showing his art is enough? They sadly can't mention them all.

[@andrewimms7676]

Yeah - I also noticed all the Mucha pictures - but no mention of his name .

[@DJchilcott]

I've often wondered what a culture that knows that their planet rotates rather than the sun would call sunrise and sunset. Earthturn, maybe? Perhaps divided into Dayturn and Nightturn.

[@SeanHubbard0]

In the sci-fi series The Book of the New Sun the characters speak of the earth 'turning its face' to or away from the Sun

[@melonlord1414]

I think that is wrong. Physics is all about different systems that you can use to look at the world. You choose the system that is most practical for the problem you need to solve. In our daily lifes, the most useful system is rotating around earth's axis one time every day. And from this perspective the sun is rising and setting. Of cause, you need to know, that this is an abstraction. But so would be just to look at the earth as rotating planet, because you'd forget that earth itself is rotating around the sun and that the sun is moving too. We always make the world as we like it. It's just important that we do it mathematically and physically corect.

[@SeanHubbard0]

@@melonlord1414 Very good point! There's nothing wrong with a helpful model not reflecting the 'truth' of reality so long as it's not incompatible with it

[@DJchilcott]

@@SeanHubbard0 That's why we still use Newtonian physics for most things, right?

[@istvansipos9940]

they give those phenomena names loooong before understanding them. like us, they would not change the names after many millenia

[@armanke13]

Being in the internet feels like 😱

[@lyalllunicec-1379]

Yes! to acknowledging Hilma af Klint as the abstraction pioneer!

[@markeppley1287]

John, can we have an art history series?!

[@cicihouston6965]

I love crash course, and this video is no exception, but please know that they are not "toe shoes". They are pointe shoes. Still, thank you for including ballet to demonstrate a shifting world.

[@henkdetank5253]

Audiomixing is done really wel appreciate it

[@thomaskane9464]

I know one of my biggest pet peaves of the old series was that the theme music came in like 5 X louder than John’s voice. So annoying

[@ElvenAngel]

Please please please please do a series on Art History!!!

[@dainironfoot5198]

Holy crap I was just looking if there was a new episode and it was uploaded literally as I was looking

[@josefin2929]

Hi I'm only 6 min in but I just wanna say: I'm studying history at univeristy and THANK YOU for using so many examples of women!!! This is like a perfect example of how you should include women in normal history-telling: keep the most important examples (like Monet, Picasso etc.) but for other examples that would generally be less well-known use women that are even more less talked about!!! Again, thank you, CrashCourse, you've made this young female historian happy-cry over female representation.

[@emmaeb]

"or this time will be remember as one where people grew increasing apart"... watching this as I quarantine during the COVID19 crisis. Yes I think this time will be remembered as that John :(

[@evilshrimpy]

I wear crocs every day because my teaching job involves having to be on my feet a lot, and they're lightweight, comfortable, and easy to clean. I know they're not very fashionable, but actually I like wearing colorful and unconventionally-shaped clothing; I feel like having spent all this time growing up and wearing hand-me-downs, it's really unpleasant to have to resign myself to one of six shades of mature, toned-down adult-colored clothing, and shoes that look much more practical than they are. bumming me out there, John.

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

Mica - I think he said that because those shoes are unbelievably ugly.

[@evilshrimpy]

@@AmandaFromWisconsin I respect your position, but disagree vehemently

[@stonehelsel4845]

Reguardless of the virtue of comfortability, your role as an educator should be in light with Domain 4 of Danielson’s Framework: Showing professionalism

[@26yd1]

@@stonehelsel4845 I rather think as an educator, it's a great thing to contest ideas such as professionalism, and embrace values such as comfort, authenticity, being the same self you are than at home or with your friends. By this mere unprofessionalism, you already play super-indirectly in the favor of science, you criticize essencialist/arbitrary/hierarchic/status-based norm, rules and dogmas, in the favor of auto-determination, truthfulness, caring the for "the real". I willingly go way too far and there's no need to intellectualize so much, but that's already a little act of rebellion that's very materialist and I'd dare say utilitarist without costing anything. And to wear colours, you can also buy clothes designed for women while actually wearable by anyone.

[@fadedpajamas]

@@26yd1 I think the OP didn't think that much when wearing crocs, it's just footwear.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@meehleibfamily3070]

Please John don’t stop doing Crash Course. You are soo good at it.

[@miaevans7437]

This is definitely one of my favorite Crash Course videos...

[@bmyers8356]

9:14. I had a beach ball as a kid. It looked like a globe. The inflation port was in Antarctica. That was “up” for the beach ball.

[@timyu2948]

Me: My gosh the early 1900's were wild . . . . John: [FREUD HAS JOINED THE CHAT]

[@Imthefake]

yeah, that's as wild as it gets

[@lar9299]

I just love John Green so much. What a teacher

[@ethan-loves]

Absolute banger of an episode

[@Sordatos]

I still wonder then exactly what is the "correct" form of being influenced without "appropiating" and idea, because sometimes it appears pretty much the correct thing is to simply stick solely to your local knwoledge

[@therongjr]

I can now confirm that the word "tremendous" is ruined for me forever.

[@gregwiens9146]

Pilate Said, "Truth, what is truth?" While truth stared him in the face... ...As it still does with us today. (Loving Crash Course)

[@Thunderwalker87]

5:18 I love that lobster painting.

[@demetriusmorgenroth2835]

Just a correction of a Japanese term that was incorrectly used: it is 'mono no aware' (物の哀れ), not 'mono NON aware'. The particle 'no' is the possessive one in Japanese and means 'of'.

[@CPRodrigues8]

Oh man! No joke I seriously think this is the best episode that crash course has ever made! Many interesting remarks and connections! Thanks for the video guys! Much love! ❤️

[@hanagreg]

The ending made me cry... thanks.

[@kylemcgregor3418]

Nobody: Kaiser Wilhelm II: GUTTER ART

[@adamfrisk956]

He’s not wrong

[@magtovi]

Great video, just a slight error: the fourth mathematical dimension was introduced since the special relativity theory in 1905.

[@Gguy061]

Thank you. Classical music didn't "end" at the start of the 20th century, or even with the rise of rock/pop music. New classical music is still composed and performed to this day, from superb minds such as Thomas Ades and David Lang

[@unon735]

Thankyou so much team Crash Course, always grateful, especially before an exam haha! P.S. i miss the who's here the night before an exam/deadline comments that used to plague the world history series years ago (damn that was YEARS ago) they were such a mood (Damn John now you've made me think of how my ways of communication have been changed by the changing times and the internet 😂) THANKS AGAIN! Much love, Unnati

[@JEROMEJAMESGREEN]

Strong hermann grid vibe coming from John's shirt.

[@kca_randy]

Hey part-timer, glad to see you John. 😁 Happy New Year John, Hank & Crash Course crew!!

[@bellajaid]

Oh yay! I love when your videos pop up in my lectures!

[@FedoraPirate]

It kinda annoys me a bit that the image of the earth at 9:02 rotates the wrong way, especially after John just talked about the sun rising in the east. I know it's not a huge deal, but stuff like this can leave people confused about how it all works. Also the light spreading out from north America felt very US centric.

[@TheMexicanPlatypus]

At 5:55, it is stated that “Hilma Af Klint produced the first entirely abstract painting with no relation to realistic form”. Is that to say that ‘at no other point in human history, has a painting, that bears ‘no relation to realistic form’ been produced? Or is this video merely presenting an impetus of each popular trend?

[@lakrids-pibe]

I learned about *Ubu Roi* in Crash Course Theater. Then in 2016 it was performed live as *President Ubu* . Merdre!

[@LegoLordPro]

Basically, since this episode came out two weeks later, its the 2nd part of European History, from the 20th century up to now.

[@MrSJPowell]

9:42 had me laughing out loud. Very clever CrashCourse! Thanks for doing these.

[@michaelaburns734]

This is the biggest events of the 20th century. Titanic, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife, The War to end all wars (Great War aka WWI), Russian Civil War, Fascist Italy, and the Rise of the USSR in 1917. Just to name a few Major Events in the 20th century. Next week is that lesson.

[@kushastea3961]

Don't you love how any place outside of Europe seem not to exist in this list.

[@dargondude2375]

@@kushastea3961 I mean it is Crash Course European History.

[@eruno_]

@@kushastea3961 This comment is under crash course European history though

[@Madhattersinjeans]

@@kushastea3961 I mean Russian civil war did happen over a pretty large area that went beyond Europe, as did the first and second world wars.

[@michaelaburns734]

@@Madhattersinjeans Yes the White and Red Revolution in the Motherland during the post World War I and after that.

[@MaryamShamsWayMaryamShams]

Thank you for the history education I wasn’t fond of history now that I am I appreciate it much more thanks to people like you

[@bobobofett]

anybody else unusually bothered by the image at 9:05 depicting the sunny side of earth going from west to east, only seconds after he talks about how it travels from east to west?

[@maclilith]

His point is that the sun doesnt rise excactly in the east but at an angle. This is true but this animation is just backwarts.

[@ethannorton4016]

Great video!!!! 👍 You guys rock!

[@bradlee9870]

What's with the "Colonel Dreyfus"? He was a Captain and was only promoted to Major after his rehabilitation, which came much later.

[@harunsuaidi7349]

When I think of Art Nouveau, I think of Kingdom Hearts. You can see Art Nouveau influence in many of Tetsuya Nomura works.

[@victoriarenard1309]

This has been my favorite episode yet. Though, I felt you could have made more mention of photography in the art segment.

[@willcwhite]

it's "THE Rite of Spring" ("LE sacre du printemps")

[@SG-sz5vh]

Like the use if a skoda, a vehicle unavailable in n. America, in the view of the world segment

[@arkan5000]

this was a heave episode, very thoughtful

[@seopark7467]

I cant really wrap myself around the difference between modernism and postmodernism. All I know is that both reject the status quo of "before" and that postmodernism rejects modernism but that's vague. What made postmodernism so different?

[@andrejansen3281]

Amy Park. It might come up in a future episode. I'm no scholar, but I would say that Both posit that original or natural society is/was a bit chaotic, disorderly with varying beliefs etc, but they differ in what to do about it. Modernism has it that there is one best way for humans to be, and they have a rather optimistic forecast for the future thanks to strong rationalist and empiricist institutions that dispel chaotic premodern ideas. Postmodernists, on the other hand, disagree that there is one best way for humans to be, and have a more pessimistic forecast of the future. They believe that both pre-modern and modern institutions (eg. Religions and science, respectively) exert power over people, rather than free them, as evidenced by systematic racism and sexism and warfare etc. Whereas modernism would have us marching to the same drum, shouting 'onwards and upwards', post modernists say leave the chaos as it is and 'believe what you want' because everything is relative, nothing is absolute.

[@seopark7467]

@@andrejansen3281 that was such a kind, comprehensive response! I have been racking my brain trying to understand these concepts for years and I think I finally understand. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this and share your knowledge with me :)

[@andrejansen3281]

Amy Park. Just happy to help a fellow crash course follower. DFTBA :D

[@dae0420]

omg he’s changed so much from how we see him at school

[@trinityflow]

Also with the advent of photography you could get an exact image. So need to paint to perfection or reality. Right?

[@SeanHubbard0]

From my limited reading of art history, I don't think there's any strong casualty between the development of photography and the modernist movement. Photography as an art form rather than a documentary practice took many years to develop

[@elizabethmckenzie3373]

We had the study right of spring in one of my classes

[@s0ngf0rx]

i tried watching a clip of it and it looks absolutely ridiculous haha. what'd you guys talk about?

[@elizabethmckenzie3373]

shimmy.ojeleye The moves and like what we thought the person who wrote it was trying to like explore

[@xeagaort]

I have a feeling things are going to get a lot more “shooty” next episode. Just a feeling. No real reason why.

[@EcceJack]

Well. You are.... correct xD at least, the *run-up* to WWI is discussed, anyway

[@isaachunter1444]

7:50 funnily enough i kinda figured the same thing without being told (at least in regards to time). I still need to figure out space.

[@LuziFearon]

Are those Pirate Scientist at 7:36?!

[@alexhuffvn]

The graphic you showed for Bali was actually French Indochina, modern day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

[@StephenLee1]

If Crash Course makes an Art History course, I'm gonna lose it!!!!😄

[@leonelguzman459]

I looked at the US history videos and this one and he had more energy in the US history videos 😭

[@AlRoderick]

Six years is a long time.

[@shabolealquesimi9420]

"mono no aware"*

[@S0phiel0ph]

John Green looks and sounds so different lol

[@karlkarlos3545]

So do you.

[@Treepelt]

It’s a crazy change. I love this series, but it didn’t have the magic of his earlier Crash Courses

[@S0phiel0ph]

@@karlkarlos3545 what is that supposed to mean?

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Cool video!

[@armanke13]

It's 5 AM. here and I'm watching CrashCourse 🤓

[@juans_refriedbeans2127]

John greens book is dope ngl

[@mestre12]

i think the Scream summarize the feeling of alot of people.

[@falnica]

At 6:36 you mention that Theosophy was inspired, among other religions, by islam, which I found odd because I had never heard that when learning about Theosophy, could you give me some examples of the islamic influence on Theosophy or a source that discusses them?

[@varana]

Without looking deeper into it (I don't know much about Theosophy), I suspect looking into Sufism might get you some connections.

[@falnica]

@@varana Sufism have a lot of mystic aspects, but that doesn't mean Theosophy took anything from them, sufism didn't invent mysticism

[@dabwiso784]

My dad had a suitcase from an old German friend where I would sneak to find porn books. Among them were two or three Theosophy books. At the time I was obsessed with religious lore and mythology so thanks to that I know more about theosophy than I should.

[@eruno_]

The only thing about Theosophy I know is that it has some strange connections to emergence of Nazism in Germany

[@pvkjhilk8323]

except psychology was studied & written about & used as far back as Greece & Rome.

[@TheLaughingPanda]

Another important turn of the century artist you should all look up is J. C. Leyendecker!

[@maclilith]

Sry but the animation at 9:05 is backwarts. Yes the sun is at an angle and this angle is even mainly responsible for the seasons. But when the sun sets in europe it is still the middle of the day in the US and this animation doesnt Show that

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

I thought Nietzsche and syphilis was a discounted theory. His father went through the same progression of symptoms so it seems to have been some kind of a hereditary condition. And I would have mentioned the gold foil experiment when you talked about the new conception of the atom. So much history, so little screen time.

[@Paulthored]

So how did the Scientific Method come about?

[@mikeoxmaul45]

1:31 Ah yes. *The 1900 T-Pose*

[@azraaydn737]

Crocs look good ig

[@asianpowerranger8526]

Sad to know CC history is almost done.

[@Zariich]

Never fear, still african and asian history to go

[@asianpowerranger8526]

Zariich I hope so, I really enjoy watching these videos. I would love to learn about world history but at school they only teach European history. :’)

[@JoaoPessoa86]

Positivism is the source of the phrase on the Brazilian flag

[@markwerfel5537]

Dreyfus was a Captain at the time of his arrest. Years later, after a pardon, he was promoted to Major -- Wikipedia: On 12 July 1906, Dreyfus was officially exonerated by a military commission. The day after his exoneration, he was readmitted into the army with a promotion to the rank of major (Chef d'Escadron). A week later, he was made Knight of the Legion of Honour,[7] and subsequently assigned to command an artillery unit at Vincennes.

[@WiseCheese587]

Polarization? How about isolation and with a constant influx of dopamine.

[@flaviosouza4449]

You are great dude

[@alonealien1474]

7:46 "I will mess with time!"

[@no_more_free_nicks]

eXCELLENT, it made me think a little.

[@benjamintrejo9307]

8:24 that’s adorable 👋🏼

[@peacewillow]

have you done a show on the history of overconsumption? i'm imagining that it must have begun alongside the industrial revolution, 'cause someone's gotta buy all those worthless products. so i imagine psychological advertising started then, too. that's when we started accumulating the waste that is now negatively impacting our environment. we have to stop adding to the mountain. 🌎

[@Celeste-in-Oz]

My crocs are so handy... I do love my crocs. Only ever wear them around the house tho.

[@fadedpajamas]

Same

[@f6amyy.y786]

Stop scrolling through the comments and actually listen to the dang video

[@jaojao1768]

Lol, you got me