MODERNISM: an artistic tendency marked by ruptures with old rules and experiments in style and form

Links:

Modernism Timeline

Literary-based listing of key publications and events

Twentieth Century Poetry

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

Links:

Claude Monet

Variety of resources to understand Monet’s work

Paul Cezanne

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

Links:

Web Museum: Expressionism

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

Links:

Gilded Age

From PBS series on Andrew Carnegie

Gilded Age Texts

Links to various writers from late nineteenth century in America


 

LOCALISM: the use of tropes peculiar to a particular region

Links:

Regionalists

On regional writers in U. S., 1870-1910

Charles Burchfield

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

Links:

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Links:

Southern Cooking

Includes many recipes

The Food Museum

General site on history and sociology of food


 

RAGTIME: a style of music with a rhythm marked by strong syncopation

Links:

Ragtime Music

Many downloadable files

Ragtime Home Page

General interest site, with biographies of major figures