Sixteenth and seventeenth century literature was dominated by giants such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Voltaire. Moliere, and Swift and the artistic works of Titian(Christ Crowned With Thorns), Rembrandt (Syndics Of The Cloth Guild), and Fragonard(The Swing). | ||||
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A nation comes of age and sheds its romantic innocence through the writings of Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, Dickinson, and Crane. Washington Irving And His Fellow Writers by Christian Schussele; Fugitive Slaves On The Underground Railroad (detail) by Charles T. Webber; and The Wounded Drummer Boy by Eastman Johnson. The Raven and El Dorado by Edmund Dulac. | ||||
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Indicative of the personal crises of humankind in the first half of the twentieth century represented in the literature of Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and others is Edward Munch’s The Scream. |  | |
Reflective of the world crises of the Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, and the start of the Nuclear Age are the literay works of Sartre, Camus, Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Tenessee Williams, and the visual art of Thomas Hart Benson’s City Activities With Dance Hall, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, and Ogden Pleissner’s Breakthrough At St. Lo. | ||
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In the era of the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Civil Rights, and the Women’s Movement, the times were expressed through the literature of Becket, Ionesco, Pinter, Shepherd, Daly, Vonnegut, Kerouac, and Marquez and artisitically demonstrated in such works as Leon Golub’s Mercenaries and Sandro Chio’s The Illness of Sisyphus. |  |  | |
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