1. Cubism and Abstract Art Erik Satie, “Prestidigiteur Chinois” from “Parade” (1917) Performed by the New London Orchestra Writers and Editors Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) Velemir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) André Breton (1896-1966) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Margaret Anderson (1886-1973) T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) James Joyce (1882-1941) Critics Marjorie Perloff Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) Artists Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Georges Braque (1882-1963) Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Paul Klee (1879-1940) Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Alfred Stieglitz (1887-1986) Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) Composers Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915) Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Alban Berg (1885-1935) Anton Webern (1883-1945) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Erik Satie (1866-1925)

2. Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1908)

3. Picasso, “Still Life with Vase, Gourds, and Fruit” (1908) Yale University Art Gallery

4. Picasso, “Seashells” (1912) Yale University Art Gallery

5. Picasso, “Ace of Clubs” (1914), Collage Yale University Art Gallery

6. Kasemir Malevich, “Black Suprematist Square” (1914)

7. Piet Mondrian, “Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue” (1920)

8. Wassily Kandinsky, ”Improvisation 35” (1914)

9. Jackson Pollock, “Cathedral” (1947)

10. Paul Klee, “Main Path and Tributary Paths” (1929)

11. Guillaume Apollinaire, “La Cravate et La Montre” (1913-1916)

12. Gertrude Stein, “A carafe, that is a blind glass” A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.

13. Alfred Stieglitz, “The Steerage” (1907)

14. Alfred Stieglitz, “Equivalent” (1926?)

15. Georgia O’Keeffe, “Black Iris” (1926)

16. Wyndham Lewis, “Workshop” (1914-1915)

17. Wyndham Lewis, “A Battery Shelled” (1919)

18. Marcel Duchamp, “Fountain” (1917)

19. Alberto Giacometti, “Hands Holding the Void” (1934) Yale University Art Gallery

20. James Joyce 1904 1915 1920 1936 Photos courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library