cultural movements
Collective artistic tides
Cultural movements are broad shifts in society's values, art, politics, or lifestyle driven by collective action and shared ideals.
Unlike formal organizations, they spread organically through communities: the civil rights movement, the counterculture of the 1960s, feminism, punk rock.
A cultural movement may reshape fashion, language, and social norms: The environmental movement changed how we think about consumption.
Movements often begin at the margins before influencing mainstream culture.
- Abstract ExpressionismGestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- ProgressivismAnti-corruption political movement
- Black Lives MatterCivil rights movement against racist violence
Existentialism · Cubism · Dadaism · Futurism · beatnik · flower power · free love · Humanism · zeitgeist · Impressionism · Bauhaus · avant garde · Surrealism · Transcendentalism · Conservatism · Harlem Renaissance · manifesto · Enlightenment
- cultural historyart history, music history, cultural artifacts, cultural memory, social history
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
- Western humanitiesRenaissance, Enlightenment, humanism, Reformation, Romanticism
- Paris literatiwriters, poets, authors, novelists, essayists
- Baroque poetryconceit, conceits, rhetorical flourish, ornamentation, court poetry
- Taisho Japanmodern girl, Ginza, Tokyo Station, universal suffrage, Mitsubishi
cultural movementspersonal expression
Conveying one's identity outwardly
cultural movementsstate propaganda
Government-produced persuasion material
government mandates · state-sponsored art · centralized planning