1850s
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." --"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon" (1852) by Karl Marx 1859 - 1858 - 1857 - 1856 - 1855 - 1854 - 1853 - 1852 - 1851 - 1850 |
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The 1850s was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War. At the mean time, The United States saw its peak on mass migration to the American West, that particularly made the nation experience an economic boom, as well as a rapidly increasing population.
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Art and culture
- Bohemianism
- rise of fine art photography
- the Great Exhibition (UK world fair)
- invention of pulp paper
- first purpose-built music halls
- start of "industrial design"
- start of modernism
- Baron Haussmann begins redesign of Paris, creating boulevards
- James Whistler, American artist, is one of many artists who flow into Paris after having read Murger's accounts
- New Orleans legalizes licensed prostitutes
- Olmsted's design for New York's Central Park
Literature
- The Stones of Venice (1851-53) by John Ruskin
- Chemistry of Common Life (1855) by James Finlay Weir Johnston
- Les Fleurs du mal (1857) Charles Baudelaire
- Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert
- The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
Visual culture
- The Stone Breakers (1850) by Gustave Courbet
- A Burial At Ornans (1850) by Gustave Courbet
- The Crystal Palace (1851) - Joseph Paxton
- Poem of the Soul, Nightmare (1854) - Louis Janmot
- Great Day of His Wrath (1851-53) - John Martin
- Fading Away (1858) - Henry Peach Robinson
Births
- Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Jose Posada (1851 - 1913)
- Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)
- H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925)
- Max Klinger (1857 - 1920)
- Émile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)
- Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Deaths