Matisse, La Danse (1909)

• Dostoevsky, "The Most Precious Thing for Man"in  Notes from Underground (1864) 
•  Pavlov ; Nobel Prize address,  (extracts).
• Sorel, "Letter to Daniel Halevy" from Reflections on Violence (1907)
• leBon, "The Psychology of Revolution" (1895);  “The Crowd” (1895)
• Valéry, Crisis of the Mind (1919)
• Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Economy and Society) (1904) (See extracts and Weber's toolbox); 
• Weber's definition of the modern state
• Francis Galton, Eugenics

Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques (1905)

Einstein:

• Einstein, Relativity, The Special and General Theory (1920);  The General Theory of Relativity, part of a lecture at Princeton 1921  (Relativity and Simultaneity);  Einstein Archives

Nietzsche:

• Kierkegaard (1813-1855): The Present Age
• Schopenhauer, from The World as Will and Representation (1819, republished 1851)
• excerpts from The Gay Science, Twilight of the Idols, and The 'Improvers' of Mankind ;
•  from "On the Use and Abuse of History.";
• from The Birth of Tragedy (1871) (cut version)
• from The Geneaology of Morals (1887)
• from Thus Spake Zarathustra (excerpts) (1883)
• from The Will to Power (1888): Book I: Nihilism; Book III: Principles of a New Evaluation;
• from Twilight of the Idols (excerpts)
• The Parable of the Madman (1882)
• The Anti-Christ (1888)
• Golomb &  Wistrich, Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy (2007)

Magritte. The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images) (1928–1929)

Freud:

• "The Unconscious, Psychoanalysis, and Civilization and Its Discontents"  (Perry)
• The Interpretation of Dreams (1900); Extracts; Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
• The Unconscious, from  A Note on the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis;  The Unconscious (1912)
• The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis (1910);
• The Structure of Unconscious (1940)
• Civilization and its Discontents (1930) (excerpt);  Civilization and its Discontents (1930)

Freud's Famous Couch

Darwin:

• Lyell, Principles of Geology III & IV (1830)
• Darwin, excerpts from "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection"; (more excerpts) (outline) (complete text) (1859);  excerpts from The Descent of Man (1871)
• Wallace, The Malay Archipelago (1869)
• Spencer, "Survival of the Fittest Applied to Human Kind" (1851); The Man vs. the State (1884); (at Hanover)

Marx:

• Marx, from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844); Introduction to "A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right" (1844); "Communist Manifesto" (1848); on Alinenated Labor ; from Das Kapital (1867)
• Luxemburg, “Social Reform or Revolution?” (1899)

Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)


Picasso, Girl w/ Mandolin (1910) 

Cézanne, Still Life with Apples 1895-98
(Smarthistory Essay)

Post-Impressionism:

• Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire  (1897); The Basket of Apples (1893)
• Post Impressionism (Art Story)
  

Fauvism:

• Matisse, La Danse (1909) (The Fauves: National Gallery of Art Online Tour) (MET Essay)
  
• James Polchin, Into the Canvas: Matisse wasn’t just a painter but an explorer, and each painting was a journey.
  
• Modigliani, Reclining Nude, (1917)
• Fauvism (Smart history); The Fauves - National Gallery of Art Online Tour; (MET essay)
• Fauvism (Art Story)
  

Art Deco:

• Klimt, The Kiss (1908)

Kirchner, Street in Dresden (1907)

Expressionism:

• Munch, The Scream  (1893); The Storm (1893); Puberty, Jealousy, Vampire, The Kiss, Madonna, Sphinx, Anxiety, Melancholy, The Dance of Life, Ashes, The Scream.; Byatt, Edvard Munch: the ghosts of vampires and victims (2012) ; Munch designed sets for Ibsen's Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, Munch designed sets for Ibsen's Ghosts and Hedda Gabler,
• Schiele,  Self-Portrait, (1911)
• Kirchner, Street, Dresden (1908); Selbstbildnis als Soldat (1915)  (Die Brucke)
• "Hottentots in tails"
• Expressionism (Smarthistory)

Naive Primitivism:

• Rousseau, A Carnival Evening 1885–6 ; The Sleeping Gypsy (1897); The Dream (1910) The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope (1905) The Serpent Charmer (1907)
  
• Shattuck, Henri Rousseau in The Banquet Years (1955); The Banquet Rousseau (1908)  Picasso throws a party in honor of Rousseau in Montmarte; Jungles in Paris (2005) Tate Modern exhibit (NGA Shockwave: Create Your Own Rousseau Painting)

Dada:

• Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), (1912) ; Bicycle Wheel (1913);  Fountain  (1917) (Smarthistory) (MET essay)
• Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp (Stafford)
  
• Dada  (Smarthistory)
• Dada (Art Story)
  

Surrealism:

• de Chirico, Ariadne (1913)
• Surrealism (Art Story)

Modernisme (Catalan Modernism):

• Gaudi, Colonia Gruell Crypt (1888), Casa Batlo (1906) Sagrada  Familia (1882-?) (Smarthistory)
• Domench. Palau de la Música Catalana (1908); Hospital de Sant Pau 
• Museo d'Historia de Catalunya

• Braque, The Portuguese (1911)
  
• Picasso, A Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905); Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) (Smarthistory); (MET Essay); Girl with a Mandolin (1910); Portrait of Ambroise Vollard  (1910);  Still Life with Bowl and Fruit (1912); Three Musicians (1921) (Picasso at the MET)
  
• Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (Dir. Scorcese) (in the Gilman Library)
  
• Brancusi, Bird in Space, (1923) (Smarthistory)
• Cubism  (Smarthistory)
• Cubism (Art Story)
  

Futurism:

• Futurism (Smarthistory)
• Boccioni The City Rises (1910)
• Futurism (Art Story)
• Futurism (Scarborough)
  

Suprematism:

• Suprematism (Smarthistory)
• Suprematism (Art Story)
  

Constructivism

• Constructivism (Art Story)

Vorticism

• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Red Stone Dancer Seated Woman
• Jacob Epstein Torso in Metal from ‘The Rock Drill’
• Wyndham Lewis Composition Ezra Pound
• Edward Wadsworth The Port Abstract Composition

Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel (1913)


de Chirico,  Mystery and
Melancholy of a Street  1914.

Decadence:

• Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891); Salome (1893)
• Von Hoffmansthal, Elektra (1908)

Beardsley, Salome (1893)

Modernist Fiction:

• Kafka, "The Judgment" (1912); "The Metamorphosis" part one; part two; part three (1916) Study Guide; Lesson Plan;   "In the Penal Colony" (1919); "A Hunger Artist" (1924); The Trial (1925)
• Nabokov Lecture on The Metamorphosis
  
• Joyce,  "The Sisters", "An Encounter", "Araby" and "The Dead" from Dubliners (1904-07); A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914)  chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5; Ulysses (1922)
• Proust, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927): Swann’s Way I; Swann’s Way II
  
• D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913); The Prussian Officer; The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd  (1914)
• James, "Daisy Miller" (1878); "The Turn of the Screw" (1898);  "The Jolly Corner" (1908); The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
• Woolf,  The Voyage Out (1915) ; Night and Day (1919); Mrs. Dalloway (1925); To the Lighthouse (1926)

Pere Ubu from Ubu Roi (1897)
by Alfred Jarry

Modern Drama:

• Ibsen, A Doll's House (1879)
• Strindberg, Miss Julia (1888) "The Ghost Sonata" (1907)
• Wedekind, Spring Awakening (1891); Pandora's Box (1903); Earth Spirit (1895)
• Jarry, Ubu Roi  (trans. Patrick Whitaker) (1896)
• Synge, Riders to the Sea (1904); The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
• Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
• Shaw, Mrs Warren's Profession (1893); Arms and the Man; Major Barbara (1905)
• Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of An Author (1921); Henry IV  (1922)

Piasso, Gertrude Stein (1905-06)

Modernist Poetry:

• Rilke,  Selected Poems; (more poems) (poets.org)
• Graves,  War poems and others (1917)
• Hopkins, Poems (1918) (poets.org)
  
• Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " (1919) ; "The Wasteland" (1922) (poets.org)
• Yeats,  "The Second Coming" (1920); "Leda and the Swan" (1923); “Sailing to Byzantium” (1927) (poets.org)
• Stein, Tender Buttons (1914);  "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"   (1923)  (audio) (poets.org)
• Pound , "In a Station of the Metro" (1913) (Haiku Poems of Basho)  (poets.org)
• Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"; "The Great Figure" (Demuth's Painting); The Yellow Flower (poets.org)
• Lorca, from Romancero Gitano (1928): The Gypsy and the Wind; The Faithless Wife; Romance de la luna, luna; Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (1934) (Flamenco Guitar)

Miro, The Farm (1922)

Loie Fuller, Serpentine Dance (1896)

Silent Film:

• Louis Feullade, Fantômas contre Fantômas  (1914) (YouTube)  Les Vampires - Partie 1 - 1915 - La tête coupée (The Severed Head) (YouTube)
  
• Chaplin, The Kid (1921); City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936)
• Wegener and Galeen, The Golem (1915)
• Weine, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (video at YouTube)
• Murnau, Nosferatu (1922) (video at YouTube)

Film:

• Renoir, Grand Illusion (complete film) (1937)
• Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Maximalism:

• Mahler, Symphony #2 in C Minor (1895) Movement 1 Todtenfeier; Symphony #10 in F# major (1910) Movement 1 Adagio
  
• Strauss, Reverie Op. 9 (1884); Salome (1905)  Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils; Elektra (1908) Finale
  
• Schoenberg, Erwartung (1899)
  

Sarah Bernhardt in La Dame aux camélias by Alphonse Mucha

Monet, Impression Sunrise (1872)

• Satie, Sarabandes (1887); Gymnopédies (1888); Gnossiennes (1890); Pièces Froides (1897);  Sports et Divertissements (1914);  Parade, (1917)
• Debussy,  Sarabande for the Piano (1894); String Quartet in G Minor (1893); Preludes (1910): Voiles; La Cathédrale Engloutie; Orchestral Nocturnes (1892-97) Nuages
  
• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (The Afternoon of the Faun) (1894); La Mer (1903-05) ; Children's Corner  (1908)
• Ravel, String Quartet in F Major (1902-03); La Valse (1919-20); Rapsodie espagnola  (1907) Pavanne for a Dead Princess (1899);  Le tombeau de Couperin  (1916)); Alborada del gracioso (1918); Bolero (1928)

Primitivism:

• Bartok, String Quartet #2 in A minor op.17 (1915-17) ; String Quartet #1;  

Stravinsky, costume design for The Firebird

Stravinsky:

• The Firbird  (1910); Petrouchka   (1910-11) ; Rite of Spring (1913) Costumes for the Ballet Russe (1909-30); The Soldier's Tale (2018); The Peasant Wedding (1923) (Les Noces); Pulcinella (with Picasso and Massine for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe) (1920)

Expressionism:

• Schoenberg, Transfigured Night (1923);  Variations for Orchestra, (1929) Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)
• Webern,  Passacaglia, Op. 1 (1908); Five Pieces for Orchestra (1911-13) 
• Berg, Violin Concerto (1930); Wozzeck (1925)

Neo-Classicism:

• Prokofiev, Symphony #1 in D maj, Op. 25 "Classical" (1917); Piano Concerto #3 in C major (1921); Suite from Romeo and Juliet (1934); Alexander Nevsky  (1938)
• de Falla, El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-cornered Hat) (1917-1919)
•  Music of Les Six : Durey, Romance sans paroles; Auric, Cinq Bagatelles; Poulenc, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano; Milhaud, Scaramouche ; Honegger, Sonate pour violon seul; Tailleferre, Suite Burlesque 

Nationalism:

• Richard Strauss, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1896) 
• Respighi, Ancient Airs and Dances  (1917);  Fountains of Rome (1916); Pines of Rome (1923–1924)
• Vaughn Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910); The Lark Ascending (1914)

Braque, The Portguese (1911)

Boccioni The City Rises (1910)

Steiglitz, Flatiron Building (1903)

Flight as seen in 1911 

Picasso, Girl w/ Mandolin (1910) 

• Paris and Berlin in the 1920s: A Cultural History (Indiana U.) (user name pb20s  password  nov1118)
• Stephen Vicchio, Notes on Modernism (1996)
  
• Shattuck, Introduction to The Banquet Years: The Arts in France, 1885-1918

• Debrabander, Deluded Individualism NYTimes The Stone 8-20-2012
• Freud Museum, London
• 1868 Dreams and the struggle to keep ourselves in one piece 
• Freud: The Last Great Enlightenment Thinker  Prospect (2012)
• Carl Jung: Taking the Inner Life Seriously
  

• Einstein Influence on Modern Culture (American Scientist)
•  Greenberg, It Didn't Start With Einstein: (Slate)
• Swanson, Einstein and Godel
  
• Einstein: Image and Impact (AIP)
  
• Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity; (Physics Classroom); General Relativity (Illinois); Einstein and Mozart, NY Times 1-31-06
• Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle (AIP)
• Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity  (AIP)
• The Discovery of the Electron (AIP)
  
• 2447 The Special Theory of Relativity in Einstein’s Own Words
• 2627 Clash of the Titans: The Bohr-Einstein Debates
• 1423 An encounter with Einstein
• 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century
• 1797 Summer, 1912: Bohr, Planck, Einstein, Brooke, and Duchamps 
• 1893 Satyendranath Bose, quantum physics pioneer and Indian hero 
• 2019 Robert Millikan: a remarkable late-bloomer in modern physics 
• 2237 Modeling the atom: Making quantum uncertainty reveal corpoeal solidity

• Friedrich Nietzsche Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Hooker, Introduction to Nietzsche
• Nietzsche, Freud and the Thrust Toward Modernism (History Guide)
• Stefan Zweig's Personal Recollection  of Nietzsche

• 2198 Getting ready to invent the airplane in 1901 
• 1867 In which the Wright Brothers invent the airplane propeller 
• 2223 Charlie Taylor, builder of the Wright brothers' engines
• 1539 In which a thin layer of fluid determines whether an airplane flies
• 1271 In which automobiles race around the world in 1906
• 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights
• 1951 In which poets explain how the airplane matured
• 1436 Adding it up in 1910: A book grapples with the coming 20th century
• 1461 George Everett Hale and BIG telescopes
• 1473 Two unsinkable ships: the Titanic and the Great Eastern 
• 2248 Arc lights, glow lamps, incandescant bulbs -- Edison's in there somewhere
• 1596 Looking for the "first" automobile
• 1681 The Literary Digest tells us about science in 1904
• 1724 Looking to nature for our technology in 1906
• 2066 The Olympic and the Titanic on the day that  ships grew too larger
• 2112 In which Röntgen struggles to put fact before fame -- not so easy to do  
• 2217 Escalator: the Not-All-Purpose Magic Stairs

• Spragins, The Crisis of Liberalism

• Filler, "Bauhaus: The Powerhouse of the New" NYRB 6-24-2010
• Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936)
• Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
• Vienna in 1900: Freud, Klimt, Art Deco
• Gustave Klimt
• Fauvism (Smart history); The Fauves - National Gallery of Art Online Tour; (MET essay)
• African Influences in Modern Art (MET)
• Expressionism (Smarthistory)  
• Cubism  (Smarthistory)
• Dada  (Smarthistory)
• Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp (Stafford)
• Futurism (Smarthistory)
• Suprematism (Smarthistory)
• De Stil (Smarthistory)
• Gardner, Modern Art: Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Suprematism, Bauhaus
• Modern Architecture Panoramas
• 1925: The Year in Review
• Aestheticism: The Painterly Image in Poetry (Norton)
•  Robert Hughes on Antonio Gaudi: God's Architect (BBC Documentary)
• Antoni Gaudi (Artchive)
• Antonio Gaudí [1984] (Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara)
• "Gaudi From the Grave" re. the on-going construction of Sagrada Familia (2012)
  
• Shattuck, Henri Rousseau in The Banquet Years
• Schama, "Rembrandt’s Ghost: Picasso looks back" New Yorker (3-36-07)
• Online Picasso Project
• Robert Hughes on de Chirico (Artchive)
• Richard Brettell on Cezanne's Basket of Apples  
• 1595 In which Alfred Stieglitz and 291 anticipate Modern
• 1605 The brief race to build very tall buildings: 1885 to 1931
• 236 Industrial Design: Showing us how function is art 

• Modern Art: The Revolt Against Representation (ppt)
• The Zeitgeist of Modernism (ppt)
• Heubeck and AP European Class-John Carroll School. Surrealism (ppt)
• "The Armory Show Exhibition of Modern Art" (1913) (at UVA)
• The Spanish Civil War (Lesson Plans)
  

• "Petals on a Wet Black Bough": American Modernist Writers and the Orient:Discussion of the Eastern influence on Pound and Fenollosa, as well as H. D., Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher.
• Pound: A “hypervortext” version of Pound’s Canto LXXXI.
• A Brief  Guide to Imagism  (poets.org)
• Imagism and Ezra Pound (Wikipedia)
• On "In a Station of the Metro" by Pound (at Modern American Poetry)
• A Brief  Guide to Modernism (poets.org)
• The Composition of Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium” (video) (manuscript page)
• 1951 In which poets explain how the airplane matured
• British Modernism’s Many Manners

• Nabokov's The Metamorphosis
• Notes on Freud and Kafka's The Judgment
• Freud on "The Uncanny" (1919) 
• The Modernism Lab at Yale
  

• Shattuck, Introduction to The Banquet Years: The Arts in France, 1885-1918
• Shattuck, Alfred Jarry: Suicide by Hallucination in The Banquet Years
• Hultkrans, Jarry's 'Pataphysics defined Nov 13 2012

• Hypertext History of Modern Drama (Emory)
• Gilman, The Making of Modern Drama (1970) Essays on Buchner, Ibsen, Chekhov and Brecht
• Theatre du Grand-Guignol 
• The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1895)
• Robb, "The Divine Sarah Bernhardt" NYRB 10-10-10

• "The Rite of Spring" at Keeping Score (PBS) Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Philharmonic
• Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music (NGA) (film)
• The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' (NPR)
• Ecksteins, "Birth of the Modern Age?" (1990) Rites of Spring (1989) "Paris" (10-55) on the opening night of The Rite of Spring and the zeitgeist of pre WWI Paris
• The scandalous premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" (NPR)
• The Rite of Spring (Joffrey)
  
• Kimmelman on Stravinsky "All in the Family" (NY Review 4-12-07)
• Stravinsky (The Time 100)
• Croce, "The Great Adventure of Serge Diaghelev" NYRB  1-13-11

• See Moscow: the Centre of the Avant-garde;  The World of Art movement and the Ballet Russes from Orlando Figes, Natasha's Dance (2002)

• Jazz Age in Paris; Jazz-Poetry; Jazz and Blues Music: 1920's-30's (Nichols, Pittsburgh State)
• History of Jazz (History of Classical Music)
• Influence of jazz on classical music  (NPR)
• How Jazz Is Like a Skyscraper.
• Schoenberg: "Love him or loathe him, he transformed music" Duer, Boston Globe 2-12-06
• The Twentieth Century from Music History 102 (IPL)
• Modern Music from The Capistrano Elementary School
• L'inhumaine: the audience riots! (1923)