The Rhetoric of Art in Consumer Culture
PWR 1 Spring Quarter 2006
Jonah G. Willihnganz
Stanford University

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Select List of 20th Century Artists for Research Projects

The list is broken into two sections, Modernism and Postmodernism, and lists only writers, painters and photographers.  If you are interested in sculpture, music, film, architecture, performance art, or other forms, see me. Remember that you do not have to choose from these lists—this is just a resource.   To find out more about an artist, use the guides on the Web Links page and visit the Stanford Art Library. Starred (*) are recommneded for research in this class. 

I. Modernist Painters, Writers, and Photographers

Painters

For a list of modernist painters and examples of their work, go to the online The 1913 Armory Show.

Writers

• *Sherwood Anderson, 1876-1941, American Novelist
• Louis Aragon, 1897-1982, French Poet
• *Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918, French Poet
• Antonin Artaud, 1896-1948, French Dramtist
• Djuna Barnes, American Novelist
• *Andre Breton, 1896-1966 French Essayist, Poet
• Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German Dramatist
• *Blaise Cendrars, 1887-1961, French Poet
• *Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French Dramatist and Poet
• *Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, Polish-English Novelist
• *Hart Crane, 1899-1932, American Poet
• *E. E. Cummings, 1894-1962, American Poet
• *Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961, English Poet
• *John Dos Passos, 1896-1970, American Novelist
• *T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965, American Poet and Dramatist
• *William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American Novelist
• *Kenneth Fearing, American Poet and Novelist
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Novelist
• Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939, English Novelist
• *Ernest Hemingway, 1898-1961, American Novelist
• Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German Novelist and Poet
• *Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, American Poet and Dramatist
• *Zora Neale Hurston, American Novelist
• *Juan Ramon Jiménez, 1881-1958, Spanish Poet
• James Joyce, 1882-1941, Irish Novelist
• *Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Austrian Novelist
• *D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, English Novelist and Poet
• *Wyndham Lewis, 1882-1957, Canadian-English Poet and Novelist
• *Frederico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936, Spanish Poet and Dramatist
• Amy Lowell, 1874-1925, American Poet
• Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German Novelist
• *F.T. Marinetti, 1876-1944, Italian Poet, Essayist
• *Vladamir Mayakovsky, 1893-1930, Russian Poet
• Robert Musil, Austrian Novelist
• *Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953, American Dramatist
• *Luigi Pirandello, 1867-1936, Italian Dramatist
• *Ezra Pound, 1885-1974, American Poet, Critic
• Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French Novelist
• *Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Austrian Poet
• Edith Sodergran, 1892-1923, Swedish-Finnish Poet
• *Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American Novelist and Poet
• *Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American Poet
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950, American Poet
• *Jean Toomer, 1894-1967, American Poet and Novelist
• *Goerg Trakl, 1887-1914, Austrian Poet
• *Tristan Tzara, 1896-1963, French Poet
• *Nathanael West, American Novelist
• *William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963, American Poet
• *Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, English Novelist and Critic
• *Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1888-1970, Italian Poet

Photographers

• *Ansel Adams
• *Edward Steichen
• *Man Ray
• *Laslo Moholy-Nagy
• *Imogen Cunningham
• Chrstian Schad
• *Raoul Houseman
• *Hannah Höch
• George Grosz
• *Anton Giulio
• Alexander Rodchenko
• *Alice Lex-Nerlinger
• Edmund Kesting
• *Andre Kertesz
• Marian and Witold Dederko
• Clarence John Laghlin
• *Manuel Alvarez Bravo
• *Florence Henri
• Alvin Langdon Coburn
• *Paul Strand
• *Afred Stieglitz
• *Jan Lauschmann
• Herbert Bayer
• *Vilho Setälä
• *T. Lux Feininger
• Karl Blossfeldt
• *Hans Finsler
• Max Burchartz
• *Lucia Moholy
• *Charles Sheeler
• Berenice Abbott
• Walker Evans
• Margethe Mather
• *Edward Weston
• *Sherril Schell
• *Margaret Bourke-White
• Otto Umbehrs (aka Umbo)
• *Erwin Blumenfeld
• *Francis Bruguière

II. Postmodernist Painters, Writers, and Photographers

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