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Schocken department store, Chemnitz 1930
This piece of architecture depicts the allure of department stores in the 1930s and the association of shopping with women. -
Fotografía de moda // Fashion photography by Man Ray 1930
This is a play on the interest that artists took in fashion in the 1930s. The woman's shadow is larger than her. -
Josef von Sternberg - The Blue Angel (1930)
This film depicts a seductive woman as someone who pulls men away from their studies and questions the validity of love versus lust. -
Mission House, Skid Road, Seattle, Wash - Ronald Ginther 1930
This watercolor depicts what life, namely attending entertainment venues, was like during the Great Depression. -
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Women in the 1930s
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Le Rêve. A dream - Pablo Picasso 1931
Picasso was known for his distorted depictions. This one is particularly erotic, with many critics noting the appearance of a penis on her face. -
The Lovers - Man Ray 1933
This piece marries the idea of love with suicide, suggesting the artist's tormented relationships with women. -
Death Seizing a Woman - Käthe Kollwitz 1934
This emotionally powerful piece speaks to the prominent deaths in this era of the Great Depression. -
The Bride of Frankenstein – Carl Laemmle (1935)
This landmark film is about the iconic monster, Frankenstein, who is discovered undead, finding himself a mate in a woman. -
Julio González - Petite femme assise, ca. 1935-1936
This sculpture weighs down the woman into space while also marrying her to sacred geometry. -
Object - Meret Oppenheim 1936
This work was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso at a cafe in Paris when she made the joking observation that anything could be covered in fur. -
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell 1936
This wildly popular romance tells of Civil War and Reconstruction days in Georgia. -
Jimson Weed - Georgia O'Keeffe 1936
O'Keeffe's flowers are often associated with female sex organs, though she personally denied this interpretation during her lifetime. -
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes 1936
This novel propounded a lesbian narrative in a highly controversial time. -
Frida Kahlo - My Nurse and I 1937
This painting describes the cold and distant relationship between Frida Kahlo and her wet nurse, meanwhile highlighting her disappointing relationship with her mother. -
Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California - Dorothea Lange 1938
Dorothea Lange is well-known for her ability to highlight the agony of the Depression Era, as we can see in the expression of the woman here. -
A-Tisket A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald 1938
This hit song of the time was an adaption of a popular children’s nursery rhyme from the late nineteenth century. -
The Two Fridas - Frida Kahlo 1939
This iconic, double self-portrait depicts "Two Fridas" hand-in-hand yet with different hearts, a reflection of how the artist felt split in two by her husband's rejection and her willingness to begin a life on her own as an artist. -
Wizard of Oz - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1939
This film portrayed the female protagonist in a dream-state that she ultimately wakes up from, proclaiming the famous line "There's no place like home." -
New York Movie - Edward Hopper 1939
Hopper's painting not only highlights a woman in solitude in a public place but also the illusory nature of cinema.
