Nude Descending a Staircase
1912 · Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
A critic at the 1913 Armory Show called it an explosion in a shingle factory, and the insult followed the painting around America.
★ 8.0
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
1912 · 416 pages
Religion is society worshiping itself. Durkheim builds the case from Australian Aboriginal totemism: a clan gathers, works itself into collective frenzy, feels a force greater than any member, and calls it a god.
★ 6.8
Hadji Murat
1912 · 144 pages
Hadji Murat quits the rebel imam Shamil for the Russians, hoping to free his captive family, and both sides use him. The critic Harold Bloom ranked it the best story in the world.
★ 6.6
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
1912 · National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff
Monet went to Venice late and found a city already doing what he had spent fifty years trying to paint.
★ 6.3
Morning in the Village After Snowstorm
1912 · Guggenheim, New York City
Peasants and houses rendered as polished metal cylinders. Malevich was three years away from painting a black square and stopping.
★ 6.1
Psychology of the Unconscious
1912 · 566 pages
Jung reads the daydreams of an American woman he never met against myth and religion from every culture, finding the deepest material in a mind is inherited, not personal. It cost him Freud.
★ 5.7
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
The Tragic Sense of Life · 1912
1912
The Psychology of the Unconscious · 1912
1912
★ 3.4
I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.
The Old Rugged Cross · 1912
The Promulgation of Universal Peace · 1912