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1820-1900
Realism and Impressionism
Camille Corot,View of Rome
Charles Darwin,Origin of Species
Poetry of Walt Whitman,Leaves of Grass
Édouard Manet, Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Claude Monet, Water Lilies
Isadora Duncan
Japanese Haiku Poetry
Music of Claude Debussy
Louis Sullivan,Wainwright Building
Georges Seurat,A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884
Van Gogh, Starry Night
Auguste Rodin, Gates of Hell
Destruction of African States, such as Benin,
and European colonization in Africa

1900-1920
Modernist Movements
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase
Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring
Serge Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe
Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House
German Expressionism: Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter
Ragtime Compositions of Scott Joplin

1920-1940
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Picasso, Guernica
Woody Guthrie
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Woman
Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory
Franz Kafka
Georgia O'Keeffe
Aaron Copland
Bauhaus Movement in Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water
Duke Ellington
Modern Dance Development: Martha Graham

1940-1970
International Style in Architecture
Mies Van der Rohe, Seagram Building
Abstract Expressionism in Painting
Jackson Pollock
George Segal, Holocaust
Henry Moore Sculptures
Decolonization in Africa
Rudolf Nuryev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
George Balanchine

1970-1997
Post Modernism
Michael Graves, Humana Building

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