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1916
Showing 24 works across all media from 1916
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1916 · 329 pages
Stephen Dedalus grows from a small boy into a young man set on leaving Ireland to make art. The prose matures sentence by sentence with him, from baby talk to fierce argument.
★ 8.7
Maple Leaf RagScott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag
1916
Stark's first run of 400 copies took a year to sell; Joplin was cutting it to piano roll in 1916.
★ 7.8
Suprematist Composition
1916 · Private collection
Colored bars drift at diagonals across a white void with no ground under them, which Malevich meant as pure feeling and nothing else.
★ 7.1
1916
Intolerance
Directed by D. W. Griffith
1916
Nothing in 1916 looked remotely like this: Griffith cuts between four eras at once, and his Babylon set was so enormous it was left standing in Hollywood for years afterward.
★ 6.6
Death and Life
1916 · Leopold Museum, Vienna
Death stands at the left in a patterned robe holding a club, watching a heap of sleeping people who have not noticed him.
★ 6.5
1916