Managerialism In 1920s

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Crash and the MoMA: In the last year of the 1920s, two events happened in New York that help sum up this tumultuous decade and the city’s particular influence on wider American culture. In October 1929, the Wall Street Crash – also known as Black Tuesday, the most devastating stock market crash in US history – heralded the end of the prosperous twenties and ushered in the worldwide Great Depression. And nine days later, on 7 November, New York’s Museum of Modern Art opened its doors for the first time under the particular patronage of three women – Miss Lillie P Bliss, Mrs Cornelius J Sullivan and Mrs John D Rockefeller, Jr.

Painted in the year of the stock market crash at the end of the decade, Trinity Church and

Google: How is this connected to the art movement? managerialism - "[....] Managerialism combines management knowledge and ideology to establish itself systemically in organisations and society while depriving owners, employees (organisational-economical) and civil society (social-political) of all decision-making powers. Managerialism justifies the application of managerial techniques to all areas of society on the grounds of superior ideology, expert training, and the exclusive possession of managerial knowledge necessary to efficiently run corporations and societies."

"[...] the main genesis of managerialism lay in the human relations movement that took root at the Harvard Business School in the 1920s and 1930s under the guiding hand of Professor Elton Mayo. Mayo, an immigrant from Australia, saw democracy as divisive and lacking in community spirit. He looked to corporate managers to restore the social harmony that he believed the uprooting experiences of immigration and industrialization had destroyed and that democracy was incapable of repairing."

New York:

(Ann Brower)

The 50’s was also the people who came to escape the eisenhower age. NYC was the alternative society. You could be an individual in the 50’s because you were freed from your background. There was a fear that if you went to new york you might become a communist because that was where all the radical ideas emanated with strange people and ideas.

Many things happened in the world of new york city culture. People came to NYC to flee the average and find a group of likeminded souls. It was the place of acceptance. It was the place of opportunity, Freedom and hope. We decided to take risks (Dan Wakefield (writer) )

To begin the decade, the MoMA acquired Pollock’s first splatter painting, “Number 1A, 1948”

The following year, the United Nations headquarters building opens on the Upper East Side.

The first secretary general made an appeal to all the nation members that they would donate a work of art to the newly built headquarters in New York. Brazil chose Cândido Portinari. the two gigantic facing walls outside the General Assembly, where policy makers from all countries make decisions that affect people’s lives worldwide. His deep soul inspiration was the pain of humanity. The literal inspiration was the bible. He spent four years painting the murals. In both, he brings back his favorite themes by choosing to represent war and peace through the suffering or joy of ordinary people,