Concepts
MODERNISM: an artistic tendency marked by ruptures with old rules and experiments in style and form
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Literary-based listing of key publications and events
Nice Japanese site on key poets in modernist movement
IMPRESSIONISM: an artistic style, most prevalent in painting, concerned with transitory plays of light and perception
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Variety of resources to understand Monet’s work
Nice graduate student site, with good links
EXPRESSIONISM: a style dedicated to the belief that expression should govern form and, therefore, art was a highly personal endeavor
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Excellent overview from the Web Museum Network
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Multi-media site on German Expressionists
GENTEEL TRADITION: tradition concerned with the traits deemed to belong to a person of good breeding
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From PBS series on Andrew Carnegie
Links to various writers from late nineteenth century in America
LOCALISM: the use of tropes peculiar to a particular region
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On regional writers in U. S., 1870-1910
Exhibit of one of the leaders of regionalism in painting
PRAIRIE-STYLE: architectural style, pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright, designed to reflect the form and feel of the American prairie
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Many-faceted site on Wright and his architecture
Chicago Architectural Foundation
Places Wright into context of Chicago architecture
FOODWAYS: the social and cultural functions of food
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Includes many recipes
General site on history and sociology of food
RAGTIME: a style of music with a rhythm marked by strong syncopation
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Many downloadable files
General interest site, with biographies of major figures