1900
Showing 19 works across all media from 1900
Lord Jim
Jim jumps from a sinking pilgrim ship that then does not sink, and never afterward proves to himself the jump was not really him. Conrad makes one second of cowardice bottomless.
The Dance of Life
A woman in white waits, a woman in red dances, a woman in black stands apart. Three ages of love on a midsummer shore.
Sister Carrie
Carrie Meeber leaves Wisconsin for Chicago and rises through two men to the New York stage. Dreiser lets her prosper without remorse or retribution, and American fiction has been freer ever since.
Man with Crossed Arms
Cézanne cared less who the man was than whether the head would hold together as structure, and the slight asymmetries keep it alive.
Sailing Alone Around the World
Slocum rebuilt an oyster sloop, left Boston in 1895, came back three years later the first person to circle the earth alone. He recounts it in the practical voice of a working sailor.
Train Smoke
One puff of steam drifts across a curving shoreline, the modern world putting a small mark on a landscape that had none.
Golgotha
Munch painted this while under treatment in a clinic, and the crucified figure hemmed in by leering faces is not hard to read.