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The Wonderful Wizard of OZ By Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is considered the first American fairy tale because of its references to clear American locations such as Kansas and Omaha. -
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5)
The third Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, appeared in nine parts in The Strand The Sherlock Holmes stories helped to establish detective's investigative techniques, such as fingerprint and handwriting analysis, were in their infancy when the stories were written; Holmes frequently laments the contamination of a crime scene,we can return to those stories to immerse ourselves in the dank vapors and dark alleyways of London, and glimpse another world in all of its splendor and squalor. -
Flatiron Building Daniel Burnham
Considered the oldest remaining skyscraper in New York, the Flatiron Building is 285 feet (87 meters) tall. -
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He described his excursions into sculpture as "nourishing" his art as a whole, and it is often possible to see where these experiments in relief and his painting overlap. -
Gresham Palace
The Gresham Palace is a building in Budapest, Hungary; it is an example of Art Nouveau architecture. Completed in 1906 as an office and apartment building, it is today the Four Seasons Hotel Budapest Gresham Palace, a luxury hotel managed by Four Seasons Hotels. It is located along the River Danube, adjacent to Széchenyi Square and the eastern terminus of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge. -
Georges Braque, Nature Morte (Violon et Compotier), also titled Still Life (Violin and Candlestick), 1910
This work embodies the dynamic and energetic qualities of Analytic Cubism, a revolutionary artistic style pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso to depict three-dimensional objects on a flat canvas without the use of traditional Renaissance perspective. In this conceptual approach to painting, perceived forms are broken down, fractured, flattened, and then reconstructed in multiple-point perspective within a shallow space. -
Still Life with Compote and Glass by Pablo Picasso
This painting, Still Life with compote and Glass, demonstrates Picasso's return to portraying subjects that can be identified in his Cubism. In this painting Pablo Picasso created this complex arrangement of colored shapes and faceted objects. He seemed enjoying the many different surfaces and substances, including a wood-grained tabletop, swatches of wallpaper, spots of various shades, various food items, and segments of wood molding. -
Water Lily Lamp Tiffany, Louis Comfort (American, 1848–1933)
Tiffany Studios around 1908, was designed as a memorial window based on a well-known motif—the River of Life. It depicts magnolias composed of opalescent drapery glass, heavily folded or creased glass, and iris in multihued tones illustrating Tiffany's ability to "paint" with glass. -
The Einstein Tower, designed by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn
The Einstein Tower, designed by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn, is one of the best-known examples of German expressionist architecture. -
Blues Music 1920
The blues began in rural communities, primarily in the south. During the 1920s, classic female blues singers like Mamie Smith ("Crazy Blues") dominated the genre's sound. For most white Americans, these female singers were their first exposure to black music, or "race music" as it was then known -
Theo van Doesburg Dutch, 1883–1931Counter-Composition VIII, 1924
In 1917 Theo van Doesburg founded an art periodical in Leiden called De Stijl (The Style).These artists saw abstraction as an almost spiritual vehicle to reconstruct art and society following World War I. Their approach, as exemplified by Counter-Composition VIII, was marked by fundamentals: geometry (squares, rectangles, and straight lines) combined with asymmetry; pure primary colors used along with black and white; and positive and negative elements. -
Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid,1926 by Georges Vantongerloo Belgian
Near the end of World War I, Georges Vantongerloo felt the need to break with the past. He came in contact with a group of artists, who saw abstraction as an almost spiritual vehicle to reconstruct art and society. Their approach, known as De Stijl, was marked by fundamentals: geometry combined with asymmetry; pure primary colors with black and white; and positive and negative elements. Motivated by his belief in this utopian aesthetic -
New York Telephone Building(The Barclay-Vesey Building)Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker New York City, 1926
In 1916 New York City enacted the "set-back law" which decreed that buildings over a certain height must include proportionate setbacks so that light and air could reach the street below. The "Barclay-Vesey building reflects this law with its wide base and various set back portions leading to a tower. Although it still had a slightly gothic ornamentation, much of the interior decowas full of low-relief stylized designs that would later come to be known as Art Deco, one of the most popular styles -
American Gothic by Grant Wood American, 1891-1942 American Gothic, 1930
American Gothic, often understood as a satirical comment on the midwestern character, quickly became one of America’s most famous paintings and is now firmly entrenched in the nation’s popular culture. Yet Wood intended it to be a positive statement about rural American values, an image of reassurance at a time of great dislocation and disillusionment. The man and woman, in their solid and well-crafted world, with all their strengths and weaknesses, represent survivors. -
Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright, at Ohiopyle, (Bear Run), Pennsylvania, 1934
"...[Wright] sends out free-floating platforms audaciously over a small waterfall and anchors them in the natural rock. Something of the prairie house is here still; and we might also detect a grudging recognition of the International Style in the interlocking geometry of the planes and the flat, textureless surface of the main shelves. But the house is thoroughly fused with its site and, inside, the rough stone walls and the flagged floors are of an elemental ruggedness." — Spiro Kostof. A His -
Salvador Dali- Daddy Longlegs of the Evening - Hope!
Significant as the cornerstone of the collection, Daddy Longlegs is also significant for being the first painting Dali completed in the UnitedStates after he and Gala sought refuge here during World War II. No longer part of the Surrealist group, Dali’s homeland was under siege, and he found himself facing an unknown future. - See more at: http://thedali.org/exhibit/daddy-longlegs-evening-hope/#sthash.Hf5Xu5zT.dpuf -
Jazz Music
1940s – Many jazz musicians were drafted to fight in World War II. A million African Americans served in the armed forces all because of the strict segregation that pervaded throughout the era. Because of this, bands were experiencing difficulties in finding musicians to perform in the dance halls. -
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
first published in 1943, is a novella, the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944).The novella is the third most-translated book in the world and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. selling -
Nightlife by Archibald Motley
He is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago painter Archibald Motley represented the vibrancy of African American culture in his work, frequently portraying young, sophisticated city dwellers out on the town. Nightlife depicts a crowded cabaret in the South Side neighborhood of Bronzeville -
The Pentagon by George Bergstrom
General Somervell broke ground on the depot site for a building with five sides, three floors, and four million square feet of floor space. The architect was George E. Bergstrom and the prime contractor was the John T. McShain Company of Philadelphia -
Rodgers and Hammerstein-American Musical Theatre
Innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the "golden age" of musical theatre -
Death of a Salesman
