POETRY:

Imagism: Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" is perhaps the most well-known imagist poem. Its two lines read: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd, / Petals on a wet, black bough."

Here is another imagist poem, by H.D.:

OREAD

Whirl up, sea--

Whirl your pointed pines,

Splash your great pines

On our rocks,

Hurl your green over us,

Cover us with your pools of fir.

modernist poetry

"Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot

Wallace Stevens poems

"Witch-Wife" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes

Wallace Stevens poem

Edward Weston

READYMADES

"This Is Just to Say"

"Bicycle Wheel," Duchamp

a red wheel

glazed with rain

beside the white

PHOTOGRAPHY: Alfred Stieglitz & the moment:

The modern poets were also intrigued by the ability of photography to capture a moment in time. Physical attitudes never before seen were explored by the writers. The immediate and actual moment became worthy of celebration and preservation for no other reason than the fact that the objective world exist; even the small, dirty, and trivial aspects of the world. Stieglitz commented in 1910, "When I am no longer thinking but merely am, then I may be said to be truly living; to be truly affirming life. Not to know, but to let exist what is, that alone, perhaps, is truly to know. Stein and Williams also developed similar philosophies of "the moment". As a result, the writer's narrative was no longer necessarily chronological, but impressionistic; and their poetry was held together by symbolic associations that existed between objects. Plot gave way to coherence of association. (http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~slatin/20c_poetry/projects/stieglitz2.html)

National Gallery of Art on-line exhibit

PAINTING: Georgia O'Keeffe