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PrimitivismH. G. Wells (1866-1946), The Time Machine (1895): Eloi vs. Morlocks
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Heart of Darkness (1899)
W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), founder of the Ballets Russes
Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian dancer
Loie Fuller (1862-1928), American dancer
Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), American dancer
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Igor Stravinsky, “Le Jeu du Rapt” (“Ritual of Abduction”) from “The Rite of Spring” (1913),Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting
Still from “The Time Machine” (2001), dir. Simon Wells (great-grandson of H. G.)
Inscription from H. G. Wellsto Joseph Conrad, in gift copy ofTales of Space and Time (1900)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
W. E. B. DuBois(1868-1963)
The Congo Free State in 1890
Grebo Mask (19th Century, Ivory Coast or Liberia)
Paul Gauguin, Parau Parau (Whispered Words, 1892) Yale University Art Gallery
Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon (1888)
Henri Matisse, “Le Bonheur de vivre” (“The Joy of Life,” 1905-06)
Pablo Picasso, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, “Bathers at Moritzburg” (1909)
Wassily Kandinsky, “Angel of the Last Judgment” (1911)
Loie Fuller (1862-1928) Isadora Duncan (1878-1927)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Danse Africaine
The low beating of the tom-toms,The slow beating of the tom-toms,
Low…slowSlow…low—
Stirs your blood.Dance!
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Marlon Brando as Col. Kurtz in “Apocalypse Now” (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Conrad’s Certificate of Competency as Master in the Merchant ServiceBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)
1882 1904
1918
Bust by Jacob EpsteinAll photos courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library