EARLY 20TH CENTURY MODERNISM

Distrust toward the government is as American as apple pie. As the government aligned itself with corporate interests and pursued foreign policies outside the light of transparency, Americans became more cynical and distrustful, opening the way for conspiracy buffs.

A review of Christine Stansell's American Moderns: BOhemian New York and the Creation of New Century

A survey of the most important works of 20th Century architecture with an emphasis on works that are still widely studied and cited by designers and critics to this day. Beginner's guide to contemporary architecture.

Have a question about art? This provides a breakdown of famous artwork, including that by Van Gogh and others.

During the Industrial Age, there was more money in Youngstown, Ohio than in New York City. Youngstown is known for its commitment to the arts.

Long Beach, California is home to some fantastic local art museums including the newly renovated Museum of Latin American Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach.

This article is an introduction and brief overview of American portraiture art. Artists from Colonial America up to and including contemporary portrait artists are discussed.

'Cannery Row' is Steinbeck at its finest. By producing a simply, brilliantly written novel, Steinbeck carries the reader away with the complexities of its characters.

This is a book review of mine.The book under review is a critical appraisal of Free verse written in Tamil by Singaporeans.

The Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria, is a magnificent tribute to Austria's most noted living art patron, Rudolf Leopold.

An analysis of one of Eliot's few prose-poems and its roots in French symbolist poetry.

This a a research paper on the influences of the the Harlem Renaissance writers that continue to influence modern writers.

History and development of wildlife art.

This is an attempt to make the religious doctors of Islam rethink their tradition so that Islam is able to find a way from within its traditions to be in sync with the accepted human values of our time

A candid look into gender roles in hard-boiled detective fiction, this introduction to the series that will feature Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Walter Mosley.

My attempt to catch up an interview Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein biography.

Perhaps it was the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who first gave expression to the concept of an avant garde of artists on the cutting edge of innovation by asserting that "Poets are the unaknowledged legislators of the world"...

Thoughts on Whitman and his poetic forms.

The period of art after World War I is one of the most influential for today's styles of art. Taking into account all of the modernistic, anti-western culture, and abstract scenes it is very apparent how influential this period in history is for art.