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1923
Showing 32 works across all media from 1923
Composition VIII
1923 · Guggenheim, New York City
Circles, triangles and floating lines arranged with the precision of a score. Kandinsky painted it while teaching at the Bauhaus, his storms over.
★ 7.2
The Garden Party and Other Stories
1923 · 256 pages
The morning of a wealthy family's garden party, a carter dies in the cottages below and a young daughter carries the leftovers down to his house. Mansfield catches life where it cracks.
★ 7.0
Downhearted BluesBessie Smith
Downhearted Blues
1923 · From The Complete Recordings
Alberta Hunter and Lovie Austin wrote it; Smith's debut record sold 780,000 copies in six months, just voice and piano.
★ 6.9
The Good Soldier Svejk
1923 · 784 pages
Josef Svejk, a Prague dealer in stolen dogs officially certified an idiot, is swept into the Austro-Hungarian army and obeys every order so eagerly that the whole war machine looks ridiculous.
★ 6.6
Zeno's Conscience
1923 · 464 pages
Zeno quits smoking constantly and never quits. Told by his analyst to write his life, he sets down a marriage begun by proposing to three sisters in one evening, and lies gorgeously throughout.
★ 6.6
Self-Portrait with a Cigarette
1923 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Beckmann had spent the war as a medical orderly, and he looks out of the shadows here like a man finished being surprised.
★ 5.6
The Inimitable Jeeves
1923 · 225 pages
Bertie Wooster's friend Bingo Little falls in love in chapter after chapter, and Bertie's cousins run a betting book on which country vicar preaches longest. Jeeves repairs the damage in a sentence.
★ 5.1