MODERNISM BIBLIOGRAPHY

Henry G. Bennett Library

Southeastern Oklahoma State University


Selected Reference Works

American Art Analog  R 759.13  Am13
This three volume set contains information for 820 artists from 1688 to 1930. It is presented chronologically by year of birth of the artist. For each entry, there is information about the artist's life, education and training,  important influences, significant works, critical reputation, and performance at recent auctions.

Encyclopedia of Art  R 703.  Enlo
This large reference work was originally published in Italian, and has been translated to English and published over a period of many years, from 1959 to 1983. It contains coverage of art, such as painting, sculpture and architecture.

Dictionary of Art  R 770.3  D56
 This massive 34 volume set was published in 1966. It contains some 45,000 articles on all aspects of art, including: the decorative arts, architecture, photography, painting, sculpture, and more. It contains over 20,000 biographies from all periods of history, with more biographies for the twentieth century than for earlier periods of art history.

The Encyclopedia of World Biography  R 920.02   W17b2
This set contains biographical information on 7,000 people past and present who have made "contributions to human culture and society and have reputations that stand the test of time."

Timeline of the Arts and Literature  R 700.202  W17bs
This work is a chronological history of the cultural side of human history. It is divided into major cultural classifications, such as: literature, visual arts, and performing arts.

A Chronology of Western Architecture  R 720.9 Y2c
This book covers architecture styles from 2000 BC to the present day, including styles from the Greek, Roman Byzantine, Romanesque, early Christian, Gothic Renaissance, and Baroque. Geographically it is concerned with Western Europe and North America.

The Timetables of History  R 902.0202  G92t3
This source contains a chronological history of the world from 4500 BC to the 1990's. The timeline is actually seven timelines of history and politics, literature and theater, religion, philosophy, learning, visual arts, music, science, technology, growth and daily life.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas  R 903 D56
This set contains the history of ideas about the external order of nature, the history of ideas about human nature the history of ideas in literature and art, the history of religious and philosophical ideas, and the history of formal mathematical, logical, linguistic and methodological ideas.

Selected Works:
700.103 M72Modernity and Mass Culture
820.93 F98gThe Great War and Modern Memory
821.9109 H24rThe Reactionaries: A Study of the Anti-Democratic Intelligentsia
820.9 L56jyJourney Through Despair 1880-1914
811.5209 R 43tThe Turning Word: American Literary Modernism and Continental Theory
823.91209 St2oOn or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World.
709.04 Ar6h3A History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography
801.9 M83f Freud and the Critic: The Early Use of Depth Psychology in Literary Criticism
809.93357 Sch9rReconfiguring Modernism: Explorations Between Modern Art and Modern Literature
809.9112 As8cThe Concept of Modernism
720.947 V94rRussian Architecture: Trends in Nationalism and Modernism
701.18 J26fForm Follow Function-Or Does it? Modernist Design Theory and the History of Art
909.82 C16tTwentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction
700.4112 M72Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives
820.99287 G37nNo Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1-3
811.5209 L54YmModernist Quartet
811.5209 N33rRepression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945
823.91 Sco8YrRefiguring Modernism
809 W69aA Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
810.9896 B17YmModernism and the Harlem Renaissance
909.82 C16aThe American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times
001.20943 G25wWeimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
709.42 T46iThe Impact of Modernism, 1900-1920
808.80112 C14LThe Cambridge Companion to Modernism
016.8 C76mThe Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books From England, France, and America, 1880-1950
741.0924 L58gGeorge Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic

Selected Modernist Authors

W.B. Yeats
James Joyce
T.S. Eliot
Joseph Conrad
E.M. Forster
 

Magazines and Journals

ArtNews
This monthly magazine contains international and national art news, reviews, reviews of books on art, news and biographical information on artists, advertisements of exhibits, and more.

Art Journal
This quarterly journal is published by the College Art Association, and contains articles on art topics, exhibition reviews, book reviews, and an exhibition catalogue.

Artforum
This monthly magazine contains articles about art and artists, exhibition reviews.

History Today
This monthly magazine contains articles about topics in world history. Holdings: 1951-1997.

History: The Journal of the Historical Association
This journal is published at Oxford University and contains historical articles. Holdings: 1957-present.

Journal of the American Musicological Society
This journal contains articles pertaining to the history of music. Holdings: 1976-present.

 Selected  Internet Resources

MODERNISM
http://www.artsmia.org/modernism/
Photographs of various arts from movements starting in 1880-1940. Art and Crafts to Art Deco with links to biographical information and pictures of artists. Click on art terms for definitions.  

INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
This online literary criticism collection allows you to look up  time periods or an author by name. You can view recent articles concerning their various works. Links to subject specific websites provided.

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MODERNISM
http://www.modernism.wsu.edu/
Journal of scholarship on the literature and culture of Europe, 1890-1939. Short articles, reviews, and extended review-essays on new scholarly and critical books on modernist literature and culture situated in historical and national contexts.


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Last Updated: June 24, 2008