Modernist / Avant-Garde Links

DaDa LiNkS | Marcel Duchamp | Futurist Links | Apollinaire | Art Links | Modernism | Stravinsky / Ballets Russes | W. B. Yeats | James Joyce | Poetry Links |

T. S. Eliot  | Amy Lowell | William Carlos Williams | The Armory ShowE. E. Cummings | SPRING | World War I | HemingwaySun Also Rises | Surrealism | Gertrude Stein | Mina Loy | Djuna Barnes |

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DaDa LiNkS

DaDa online
http://www.peak.org/%7Edadaist/English/Graphics/index.html

Dada in Zurich
http://www.peak.org/%7Edadaist/English/Graphics/dadazurich.html

Description of the Cabaret Voltaire
http://www.peak.org/%7Edadaist/English/Graphics/cabaret_voltaire.html

Hugo Ball's account of the founding of the Cabaret Voltaire
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/cabaretvoltaire.html

Manifesto (Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1920)
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/manifesto.html

Picabia Statement
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/manifeste_cannibale.html

Manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine (Tristan Tzara)
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/mr_antipyrine.html

"Apropos of Readymades" (Marcel Duchamp)
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/readymades.html

Proclamation without Pretention (Tristan Tzara)
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/proclamation.html

List of Dadaists
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/artists.html

The International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

Digital Dada Library (Images of Dada-era books and periodicals in both .jpg and .pdf formats):
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/collection.htm

From Dada to Wave
http://www.mital-u.ch/Dada/

John Heartfield's Life: http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/life/6.html

John Heartfield's Art: http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/art/art.html

Heartfield vs. Hitler gallery: http://www.brasscheck.com/heartfield/gallery.html

Hannah Hoch (From Cut and Paste: A History of Photomontage)

Kurt Schwitters Biography / Timeline (Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Archive)

Kurt Schwitters, Master Collagist (Collage Gallery)

Kurt Schwitters at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover (in German): http://www.kurt-schwitters.org/

Kurt Schwitters (From Cut and Paste: A History of Photomontage)

The Kurt Schwitters Exhibition In Mexico City - Summer 2003: http://kurtschwitters.org/

Kurt Schwitters' Sound Poetry (including the Ursonate): http://www.ubu.com/sound/schwitters.html (Ubu Web Sound)

MARCEL DUCHAMP

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp: http://understandingduchamp.com/ (Andrew Stafford: requires flash player)

Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal: http://www.toutfait.com/
Alternate, non-cascading home page: http://www.toutfait.com/main.jsp

Art Science Research Laboratory (Runs Tout-Fait, among other projects. Scroll down for the “Rude Descending a Staircase” animation)

Marcel Duchamp World Community http://www.marcelduchamp.net/

Duchamp Links at http://www.marcelduchamp.org/

FUTURIST LINKS

Futurism: Manifestos and Other Resources: http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/

Italian Futurism: http://www.wendtroot.com/spoetry/folder6/ng63.html

The Italian Futurist Book: http://colophon.com/gallery/futurism/index.html

Luigi Russolo and the Italian Futurists (The Art of Noise): http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/russolo.html


APOLLINAIRE LINKS

Apollinaire Calligrammes at Ubu.com: http://www.ubu.com/historical/app/index.html

Apollinaire: Calligrammes: (Lettre-Océan & Colombe): http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Apollinaire_Calligrammes.html

Homage to Apollinaire: http://www.geocities.com/carmenmiranda.geo/Apollinaire1.html

Apollinaire reciting "Le Pont Mirabeau (Penn Sound)

Text of "Mirabeau Bridge" (Donald Revell, Poetry Foundation)

Apollinaire at Poets.org: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/737

A translation of Apollinaire's Zone: (Donald Revell at Poets.org) 

Another translation of Apollinaire's Zone: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Poetry/Apollinaire/zone.html

"Les Fenêtres" ["Windows"] in French and English: http://www.pierdelune.com/apollin2.htm 

"Magic Iconism" ("Coeur Couronne et Miroir"--M. Webster)
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Coeur.htm

ART LINKS

Analytical Cubism:
http://www.cavant-garde.com/articles/cubism.shtml

The Online Picasso Project (Picasso paintings, year by year)
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/

The Artchive.com (many ads, but many paintings as well . . . )
http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site_reg.htm

Robert Delaunay's Windows series:
http://www.robert-delaunay.net/windows/wi-a.htm

Another page with Robert Delaunay's Windows series:
http://www.courses.psu.edu/arth/arth497c_pjm19/del3.htm

Another Delaunay page
http://www.modjourn.brown.edu/mjp/Image/delauney/delauney.html

A course on Kandinsky & the Blue Rider:
http://www.courses.psu.edu/arth/arth497c_pjm19/index.htm

The Dream of Henri Rousseau
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/le_douanier_rousseau/dream.htm

Russian Avant Garde Gallery
http://russianavantgard.com/index.htm

Paris through the Window (Marc Chagall)
http://russianavantgard.com/Artists/chagall/chagall_paris_through_window.html

Homage to Apollinaire (Marc Chagall)
http://russianavantgard.com/Artists/chagall/chagall_homage_to_apollinaire.html

MODERNISM LINKS

The Modernist Journals Project

Beinecke Library exhibit on American Women in the Arts 
 

Modernism and the Modern Novel: http://elab.eserver.org/hfl0255.html

The Lost Generation of 1914 (History Guide)

Christopher Witcombe's Modernism site (mostly about visual art): http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/

Little Magazines and Modernism: http://littlemagazines.davidson.edu/
[“THIS WEBSITE has been compiled by undergraduates at Davidson College enrolled in the course ENG487: The Web of Modernism. This site is maintained by Suzanne W. Churchill, Associate Professor of English, and hosted by Davidson College.”]

Paris Review Interviews (Alphabetical by subject: among those interviewed are Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway)

British Modernism’s Many Manners . . . and its American Admirers (Humanities, March/April 2009; Volume 30, Number 2)

Stravinsky / Ballets Russes Links

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: http://www.keepingscore.org/flash/stravinsky/index.html (SF Symphony)

Riot at the Rite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je2Et0XVChs (BBC film attempting to recreate the first performance of Rite of Spring)

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

Life and Works of Yeats (National Library of Ireland)

Yeats Meets the Digital Age (New York Times)

Easter 1916 Postcards (Island Ireland)

Marjorie Perloff, “ ‘Easter 1916’: Yeats’s First War Poem“ (PDF file)

JAMES JOYCE LINKS

The Brazen Head's Joyce Links http://www.themodernword.com/Joyce/joyce_links.html
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_links.html

James Joyce Resource Center
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/organizations/ijjf/jrc/

Michael  Webster's Portrait page: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Portrait.htm

Brandon Kershner's Portrait Page: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~kershner/port.html

Robert Scholes, "In the Brothel of Modernism: Picasso and Joyce"
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/people/scholes/Pic_Joy/Part_1_340.html

The Zurich James Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefoundation.ch/

Text of A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man (only works with Internet Explorer)
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/29/62/frameset.html

Finnegan's Web: A complete online version of Finnegans Wake.
(Also features an online version of Ulysses. Just so you can see what can happen.)
http://www.trentu.ca/jjoyce/fw.htm

The James Joyce Scholars' Collection (Web versions of out-of-print scholarly books on Joyce, mostly on Finnegans Wakehttp://libtext.library.wisc.edu/JoyceColl/

Reginaldo Takara's tribute to J.J.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/6372/

POETRY LINKS

Imagism

Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford UP) (MAPS: Cary Nelson) More than a companion site to an anthology, MAPS features sites for 161 American poets, with biographies, critical commentary, photos, and links for each poet.

Modern and Contemporary Poetry (Al Filreis, English 88, U Penn)

Al Filreis: Chapter 2--Modernism and Imagism   
Al Filreis: Chapter 3--The Reaction against Modernism: the Thirties
Al Filreis: Chapter 4--The Reaction against Modernism: Harlem Renaissance  

The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/

Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo--concentrates on contemporary and experimental poets) 

The UbuWeb: visual / concrete / sound poetry: http://www.ubu.com/

"Voices and Visions Spotlight"--links to sites on 13 modern American poets: http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/

Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar": http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-ancedote.html

Criticism of Stevens' "Jar" at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/jar.htm

T. S. Eliot

What the Thunder Said: a T. S. Eliot site: http://www.whatthethundersaid.org/

T. S. Eliot at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/eliot.htm

Marjorie Perloff on the "Avant-Garde Eliot" (PDF file)

“The Prufrock Papers” (hypertext Prufrock): http://www.usask.ca/english/prufrock/

Texts of Eliot poems, with a brief biography (Representative Poetry Online, Ian Lancashire, U of Toronto)  

"Preludes": http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/786.html

"Rhapsody on a Windy Night": http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/787.html

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/781.html

The Waste Land: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/790.html

TSE reads The Waste Land (Harper Audio, via IMS)

Prof. Stephen Railton's T. S. Eliot page 

Exploring The Waste Land (R A. Parker)

The T. S. Eliot Society (USA)

An Interactive Waste Land Site (too many pop up ads but an interesting hypertext approach): http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/
Amy Lowell:

Amy Lowell at the MAPS site:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/amylowell/lowell.htm

Lowell's contributions to Some Imagist Poets (1915):
http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/sip15_lowell.htm


William Carlos Williams:
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Another version of the same: and another (UNC)

W.C. W. at the MAPS site
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/williams.htm

W.C. W. at the Academy of American poets site
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=120

Al Filreis' W. C. W. links:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html#w

The Armory Show

The 1913 Armory Show (UVA)

Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)


E. E. Cummings:

Spring, the Journal of the E. E Cummings Society
http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/Index.htm

The Enormous Roomhttp://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/ERoom.html 

Fantasio [cf. Enormous Room p. 34]:  http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/French_Magazines/Fantasio_01.htm

 La Vie Parisienne http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Paris_at_War/La_Vie_Parisienne_01.htm

E. E. Cummings at Representative Poetry Online:
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/86.html

E. E. C. at the MAPS site:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm

Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo--concentrates on contemporary and experimental poets)
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/

The ubuweb: visual / concrete / sound poetry
http://www.ubu.com/

A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry (Harry Rusche)
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/Handbook.html

WW I LINKS

First World War.Com
http://www.firstworldwar.com/ Features:

Prose and Poetry 
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/

Literary Ambulance Drivers in WW I
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/ambulance.htm

Vintage Audio Page
http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/index.htm
"Over There" (George M. Cohan)
http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/overthere.htm

Photos of the Great War
http://www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwar.htm

About World War I (from the MAPS site):
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ww1/ww1.htm

World War I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

Features the World War I Image Archive
http://www.gwpda.org/imagarch.html
and "Memoirs and Remembrances"
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir.html
Henri Barbusse: Under Fire (complete book online)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4380

Art of the First World War:
http://www.art-ww1.com/gb/index2.html

An Introduction to WW I Poetry
http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/

War Poems and Manuscripts of Wilfred Owen
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm

Anthem for Doomed Youth: Writers and Literature of The Great War, 1914-1918

The Hydra, Journal of the Craigolockart War Hospital: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/hydra/

Lost Poets of the Great War: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/

Heritage of the Great War: http://www.greatwar.nl/

The Great War in a Different Light (Illustrations and news articles from popular magizines of World War I)

ERNEST HEMINGWAY LINKS

The Hemingway Society's "Virtual Hemingway," a links page (the best I've found):  http://www.hemingwaysociety.org/#virthem.asp

Hemingway's Paris: An Online Seminar
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/seminar.htm

Hemingway's Life in Paris
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/ehlife.htm

Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, IL (Hem's childhood home)
http://www.hemingway.org/

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (companion ot PBS show)
http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/michigan.html

The Hemingway Resource Center
http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm

In Our Time and the Sun Also Rises

A short introduction and lesson to In Our Time (Kansas State University)
http://www.kuce.org/isc/previews/engl/engl495h_lesson.html

Webster's Sun Also Rises Notes and Study Questions: 
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Sunquestions.htm

The cancelled early chapters of The Sun Also Rises (Clifton Waller Barrett Collection)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/tsarms.html

A review of "Whiteness and the Rejected Other in The Sun Also Rises" (Sandy Alexandre)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/enam712/alexandre2.html

A review of "Brett Ashley as the New Woman in The Sun Also Rises" (Bianca Roters)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/enam712/roters2.html

"'The Saloon Must Go and I Will Take It With Me': American Prohibition, Nationalism, and Expatriation inThe Sun Also Rises" (Nakia Pope): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/enam712/pope2.html

Picturing Hemingway (National Portrait Gallery)
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hemingway/index.htm

Hemingway's ties with Kansas City, including links to his articles at the Kansas City Star: http://www.kansascity.com/hemingway/

"Inside the Whale Inside: a hypertextual journey into the belly of modernism," by Robert Scholes (Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, and George Orwell respond to El Greco's whale images)

SURREALIST LINKS

History of Surrealism
http://www.bway.net/~monique/history.htm

Surrealism Defined
http://www.duke.edu/~acm6/academic/art/surrealism.htm

Surrealism--Connections between Art and Science
http://bway.net/~monique/intro.htm

Andre Breton, "First Surrealist Manifesto" (1924)
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/F98/SurrealistManifesto.htm

Andre Breton, "What Is Surrealism?" (lecture, 1934)
http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~fa1871/whatsurr.html

The Surrealists Website
http://www.spiraleye.net/surrealists/

GERTRUDE STEIN LINKS

Gertrude Stein Online [See also Accounts of Meeting Gertrude Stein]

Audio: Gertrude Stein at PennSound (scroll down for "A Completer Portrait of Picasso")

Text of "A Completed Portrait of Picasso" (PennSound / Ulla Dydo)

Stein reading "A Completed Portrait of Picasso" (from the UbuWeb)

Digital Images Online (Beinecke Library, Yale University--type in "Gertrude Stein")

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (American Women in the Arts: a short selection from the Yale photos, with commentary)

Tender Buttons at Bartleby.com : http://www.bartleby.com/140/

Stein's first Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Autobiography 34-40) 

Picasso's 1905 Portrait of Gertrude Stein (Autobiography 12, 45-46, 53)

Mabel Dodge's essay on Stein, "Speculations, or Post-Impressionism in Prose" [Arts and Decoration, March 1913]

The World of Gertrude Stein (Biography)

Salon.com article on Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

The New York Times on Stein: 
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein.html

Mina Loy

MAPS page on Mina Loy: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/loy.htm 

Mina Loy, Poet, Painter, Modernist 1882-1966 (Left Bank Review) 

Marjorie Perloff, “ENGLISH AS A ‘SECOND’ LANGUAGE: Mina Loy's ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ 

Mina Loy's Lunar Odyssey: http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/wolkowski/main.html 

Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes (American Women in the Arts)

Becoming Modern (Carolyn Burke) 

Djuna Barnes

The Book of Repulsive Women (Poems, 1914)

The Ladies Almanack (1928)

Djuna Barnes, Tortured Genius 1892-1982 (Left Bank Review)

Djuna Barnes

Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes (American Women in the Arts)

PARIS NOIR LINKS

Richard Wright Quotations
http://www.clrjamesinstitute.org/wrightqu.html

Richard Wright Biography and Resources
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wright_richard/

Richard Wright Documentary

Chester Himes
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/HIMES/CHESTER.html

Langston Hughes:

Langston Hughes at the MAPS site: 
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm

Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/mountain.htm

Salon.com article
http://www.salon.com/audio/poetry/2001/02/15/langston_hughes/

Josephine Baker:

The Official Josephine Baker Site
http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/about/index.html

Josephine Baker (Smithsonian Exhibit of Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir portfolio)
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/noir/index.htm

Josephine Baker (costume design)
http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/selections/paris/index.html

Jazz Audio: http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/jazzage.htm
 

 little MAGAZINES

MJP Modernist Journals Project [“journals books essays artist database periodical database teaching December 1910 Project search about”]
features PDF files for Poetry (1912-1922), BLAST (1914-1915), and The New Age (May 1907-Oct. 1916)

Little Magazines and Modernism: http://littlemagazines.davidson.edu/
[“THIS WEBSITE has been compiled by undergraduates at Davidson College enrolled in the course ENG487: The Web of Modernism. This site is maintained by Suzanne W. Churchill, Associate Professor of English, and hosted by Davidson College.”]

Golding, Alan. “The Dial, The Little Review and Modernist Canonicity” [2001]: also at  http://www.umit.maine.edu/~steven.evans/3F-36

The Great War in a Different Light: http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/index.htm (Illustrationa and news articles from popular magizines of World War I)

The Dial:
"The Dial's White-Haired Boy" Spring New Series 1 (1992): 8-27. 
The Dial 1922: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/eng/pages/eking08/
The Dial Magazine: A Brief History: http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/dial/dialhist.htm
The Dial / Scofield Thayer Papers at Yale: http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.dial.nav.html
The Dial building at 152 W 13th St.: http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/America/Dial.htm/
An E. E. Cummings drawing of Thayer (from CIOPW)  
PHOTOGRAPHY

Eugene Atget's Photos of Paris:

The Atget Rephotographic Project:
http://www.art.usf.edu/marcus/atgetrephoto.html

Atget at masters-of-photography.com (too many pop-under ads here):
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/atget/atget.html

Gerald Panter's Photos of Atget's Paris Then and Now (scroll down for the photos):
http://www.gmpanter.com/new/2003/atget.html

Gerald Panter's Photos of Paris (scroll down for the photos):
http://www.gmpanter.com/new/2003/paris.html


Sources for Electronic texts:
Composition & Citation Advice:
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