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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: "Machine Age"

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Yale University

Yale University Art Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
The Yale University Art Gallery offers collections of Egyptian, Etruscan, and Greek art, early Italian panel paintings, European, Asian and African art, impressionist, modernist, and contemporary paintings and sculpture as well as...
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University of Virginia

"Modernism and the Modern Novel"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Electronic Labyrinth provides a concise overview of Modernism with a nod to authors and works that characterize the movement.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Futurism

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the futurist movement in painting - particularly in Italian painting - and view examples of this style of painting. Click on the titles of each work to enlarge the images.
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Other

The Italian Futurist Book

For Students 9th - 10th
A fairly detailed history of futurism with several long quotes from Marinetti's writings.
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Tour Costa Rica

Costa Rica: Literature: Prose

For Students 9th - 10th
The page gives an excellent summary of Costa Rican literature from the 1800s and 1900s. Authors and their works are described.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur Covered Cup, Saucer, and Spoon)

For Students 9th - 10th
The story behind the creation of "Object", an ordinary cup, spoon, and saucer wrapped evocatively in gazelle fur, has been told so many times its importance in modernist history transcends the fact it might be of dubious authenticity....
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: William Carlos Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a series on "Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945," this aticle features a biographical note and appraisal and an excerpt from Williams's poem, "Paterson."
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: On the Ezra Pound

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Maintained by the "McLuhan Studies Journal," this article by Edward Barton from the University of Toronto focuses on Pound's influence on Marshall McLuhan during their years of correspondence. This site is more useful for McLuhan studies...
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University of Pennsylvania

William Carlos Williams: The Barroness

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of a chapter from William Carlos Williams's autobiography, "The Baroness," which provides a personal view poetry and culture after World War I.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Roland Barthes Structuralist

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Biography of a major proponent of structuralism. Provides life info and brief mention of his various work.