Cover: Charles Demuth, In Vaudeville, the Bicycle Rider (1919)
Historical arts annual · 1919
1919: A Changed World
A substantial journey through the literary and visual worlds of 1919: 27 selections by 26 contributors, including poetry, short fiction, criticism, a letter, painting, prints and photography. The 95-page volume opens with a historical introduction and closes with illustrated biographies and detailed sources. Complete literary works include Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, alongside art and photography from Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States.
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- Contents — page 2
- Foreword — page 4
- A Year in Many Worlds — page 5
- W. E. B. Du BoisReturning Soldiers — page 15
- Georgia Douglas JohnsonPrejudice — page 17
- Claude McKayIf We Must Die — page 18
- Harris & EwingWoman Suffrage. Suffrage Bus — page 19
- Fenton JohnsonTired — page 20
- Charles DemuthIn Vaudeville, the Bicycle Rider — page 21
- Edna St. Vincent MillayRecuerdo — page 22
- Wallace StevensAnecdote of the Jar — page 23
- Amy LowellThe Garden by Moonlight — page 24
- Virginia WoolfKew Gardens — page 25
- Katherine MansfieldA Ship Comes into the Harbour — page 32
- D. H. LawrenceTickets, Please! — page 36
- Sherwood AndersonAdventure — page 50
- Alfred StieglitzGeorgia O’Keeffe — page 57
- Amedeo ModiglianiRoma Woman with Baby — page 58
- W. B. YeatsAn Irish Airman foresees his Death — page 59
- Siegfried SassoonAftermath — page 60
- Siegfried SassoonEveryone Sang — page 61
- Ivor GurneyTo His Love — page 62
- Arthur StreetonThe Somme Valley near Corbie — page 63
- Max BeckmannThe Way Home — page 64
- Bart van der LeckThe Rider: Exhibition Poster — page 65
- Kawase HasuiKomagata Embankment — page 66
- Takehisa YumejiHer Portrait — page 67
- Wu ChangshuoBamboo and Rock after Zheng Xie — page 68
- Wang ZhenPortrait of Bodhidharma — page 69
- Rabindranath TagoreLetter to the Viceroy — page 70
- The Makers: Biographies and portraits — page 71
- Sources & Credits — page 84
- About this edition — page 94
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Contributors
Sherwood Anderson · Max Beckmann · Charles Demuth · W. E. B. Du Bois · Ivor Gurney · Harris & Ewing · Kawase Hasui · Fenton Johnson · Georgia Douglas Johnson · D. H. Lawrence · Amy Lowell · Katherine Mansfield · Claude McKay · Edna St. Vincent Millay · Amedeo Modigliani · Siegfried Sassoon · Wallace Stevens · Alfred Stieglitz · Arthur Streeton · Rabindranath Tagore · Takehisa Yumeji · Bart van der Leck · Wang Zhen · Virginia Woolf · Wu Changshuo · W. B. Yeats