Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | A poem by Wallace Stevens, 1917
Derrick Greaves, Black Bird / Red Beak, 2008 IAmong twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the eye of the blackbird....
1910s
Circus | Paintings by August Macke, 1910-13
August Macke, Circus, 1913 August Macke, Circus, 1910 August Macke - Circus Artists, 1911 August Macke, Tightrope walker, 1913 August...
Frame inside | The Dream / Henri Rousseau, 1910
Henri Rousseau at work on his last completed painting “Le Rêve” (The Dream), 1910 Henri Rousseau, Le rêve / The...
Alphabetarion # Addiction | Natsume Sōseki, 1916
Franz Kline, Untitled, 1955 “Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.” Natsume Sōseki, Light and Darkness, 1916...
Lied (Song) | A poem by George Grosz, 1919
George Grosz, Bourgeois world, 1918 We contain all the passionsand all the vicesand all the suns and stars,chasms and heights,trees,...
The dancer Violet Romer | Photos by Edward Weston, 1910s
Violet Romer in a flapper dress, 1915 Edward Weston, Violet Romer with peacock fan, 1917 Edward Weston, The White Peacock,...
On [:] Quality | G.K. Chesterton, 1910
Alfred Sisley, Street in Moret, 1922 “Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or...
Afternoon on a Hill | A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1917
Edward Cucuel (1875-1954), Reclining Woman in White I will be the gladdest thingUnder the sun!I will touch a hundred flowersAnd...
My great adventure is really Proust | Virginia Woolf, 1912-22
Virginia Woolf / Marcel Proust “Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the...
Insomnia. 2. | A poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, 1916
Wolf Kahn, Woods in Two Colors and Three Tones, 1988 As I love tokiss hands, andto name everything, Ilove to...