NEO CLASSICISM

WHAT IS NEOCLASSICAL

• It is the classical style from the past
• It includes
• Art
• Archeticture
• Literature and music

AMERICA NEOCLASSICISM

• America got most of its culture from England
• Americans had extremely close cultural and literary ties to London.
• Economical mass printing, affordable books and engraved drawings helped to s
• timulate interest and spread neoclassical taste.
• American and English literature originate from Greek literature

Untitled Slide

• Thomas Jefferson Johann Winckelmann did not believe the term
• Neoclassicism
• To describe the antique revival they were living through

HOW NEO CLASSICISM SHAPED AMERICA

• Neoclassicism shaped America because
• they used the Ancient Greek political
• Systems which now is called democracy
• They have shaped America for over 150 years

ARCHITECTURE

FAMOUS BUILDINGS

• The Washington monument
• Monticello( Thomas Jefferson home)
• The Washington monument comes from
• Egyptian past which symbolizes power and
• Perpetuity.

Untitled Slide

• Thomas Jefferson home comes from
• Styles that he visited that has roman
• Past.

MUSIC

NEOCLASSICAL MUSIC

• Yankee Doodle dandy originates from England
• since an English settler made the song to make fun of
• The American settlers but instead of making them mad
• they used it against them in the war and mocked
• the British with this song.

Untitled Slide

• God save the king was a a English song
• which again America changed the name of the song
• and lyrics to America to retaliate against England
• and declare independence.

WHAT DOES NEOCLASSICAL HAVE TO DO WITH AMERICA

• As said in the previous slides it is the revival of classic styles
• Which is then used to shape our community.
• During the American revolution it helped a lot since
• America at the time only were 13 colonies, so with the wisdom
• of the past we are seeing America how it was back then today.

CITED SOURCES

• http://www.kidsandhistory.net/paulvm/h5_musicfrmset.html
• http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-neoclassical-literature.htm
• http://www.tu-cottbus.de/theoriederarchitektur/wolke/eng/Subjects/022/Nevzg...
• http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/craftg/HRS134/Neoclassical.doc
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_architecture

Untitled Slide

• The pictures that were used in the slide
• we from haiku deck