Links Useful to the Course and to Your Research

Below are set of links that will help you explore some of the principal movements and artists of the 20th century art.  After you begin your research in earnest, you will for the most part be using resources of the Stanford Libraries, which provide searches and materials necessary to your research and unavailable on the Web. An easy way to access the library resources you will need is to use the PWR Library Research Page.

A Select List of links to Major Museums. Collections, and Online Databases of 20th Century Art:

The 1913 Armory Show
(A terrific on-line recreation of the the landmark show, with lots of resources)

The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
(A huge collection of 20th century art online, plus substantial resources in the education section)

The Whitney Museum of American Art
(Especially strong in mid-century and contemporary art, see especially the decade-by-decade exhibition and new photography)

The Art Institute of Chicago
(Check out both the permanent collection and past and present exhibitions)

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(See especially the informative "Making Sense of Modern Art" flash program featuring "Comparisons across Time," "Themes," and "Artists in Context.")

Collection Database of Boston's Museum of Fine Art
(Searchable database for more than 50,000 works avialable online)

The Guggenheim Museums
(A link to all five Guggenheims around the world—see especially the large online collection at the New York museum)

The National Gallery of Art
(See especially the in-depth features and virtual tours on artists such as Rothko, Calder, Johns, and Steichen in the permamnent collection section.)

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)
(A large collection of American and European works since 1940)

J. Paul Getty Museum
(Click "Explore Art" to access the searchable online database of the Getty collection)

The Tate Gallery
(England's largest museum of modern art. Click the links under "What's On?" to access over 65,000 works and tutorials)

Centre Pompidou
(France's largest museum of modern and contemporary art. See especially the database of 50,000 works in "On Line Resources")

The Corcoran Gallery of Art
(A small collection, but see works by the likes of A. Warhol and W. Evans in contemporary art and photography sections)

Christopher Witcombe's 20th Century Art Page
(A big list of links of visual artists, aranged chrnologically by movement, from Art Nouveau to Pop Art and beyond.)

The artists.org
(Large online database of modern and contemproary artists)

The Artcyclopedia
(Large, online database of art.  See especially "Art Movements" at the bottom of the page for movements within Modernism such as Fauvism, Expresionsim, Cubism, Expressionsim, Bauhaus, Dada, The Harlem Renaissance, etc.)

The Masters of Photography Site
(A good place to look at selected photographs of the most prominent modernist photographers).

Grand Valley State University's "Movements in Modernism and the Avant-Garde"
(A good set of links to visual art movements like Futurism, dada, etc. and writers such as Joyce and Cummings.)

Links at Case Western Reserve course on Modernist Salons
(An good place to explore painters, photogrpahers, and other kinds of artists such as Cézanne, Duchamp, Hine.)

National Museum of Women in the Arts
(Many works and information about 20th century women artists such as Alice Bailly and Frida Kahlo)

Artelino Art Auction's guide to Modern Art Movements
A brief, but useful hyperlinked guide

ArtForum
(This is the web site of the influential magazine of contemporary art.  Lots of resources on current art and exhibitions—see especially the "Links" section for further links to museums.)

Art Renewal Center
(A site devoted to overturning modernist aesthetics and recovering academic art of the 19th century)

A Short list of links to public online resources on 20th century literature:

The Literary Encyclopedia
(A good resource for learning more about authors and literary movements.)

Stanford's American Literary Studies Page
(Scroll down to the 20th Century Section for full-text databases of American Poetry and William Faulkner.)

Stanford's British Literary Studies Page
(Scroll down to the 20th Century Section for full-text databases of English Poetry and James Joyce.)

Rutgers British and Irish Literary Resources
(A great compilation of links to biographies, interpretations, electronic versions of texts, and timelines.)

Rutgers American Literary Resources
(A great compilation of links to biographies, interpretations, electronic versions of texts, and timelines.)

Voice of the Shuttle (U.C.S.B.) Links for British and American Modernism
(A big, excellent, searchable databse. Contains resources on allied art movements.)