Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

American 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: " f all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man ’ s life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth.

A number of 19th and 20th-century United States and Canadian painters, often motivated by a desire to document and preserve Native culture, specialized in Native American subjects.

Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) and The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Norman Percevel Rockwell ( February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978 ) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Theater scholar Charlotte Canning, of the University of Texas at Austin where Williams ' archives are located, has said, " There is no more influential 20th-century American playwright than Tennessee Williams ...

This technique was notably used in the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt around 100-300 AD, in the Blachernitissa and other early icons, as well as in many works of 20th-century North American artists, including Jasper Johns, Tony Scherman, and Fernando Leal Audirac.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

The city's most prominent art museum is the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, whose collection has more than 3, 600 works and a focus on 20th-century American art.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Under the 20th-century editorship of Colonel Robert R. McCormick the paper was strongly isolationist and actively biased in its coverage of political news and social trends, calling itself " The American Paper for Americans ," excoriating the Democrats and the New Deal, resolutely disdainful of the British and French and greatly enthusiastic for Chiang Kai-shek and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

The story is a look at early 20th-century American race relations.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Miró has been a significant influence on late 20th-century art, in particular the American abstract expressionist artists such as Motherwell, Calder, Gorky, Pollock, Matta and Rothko, while his lyrical abstractions and color field paintings were precursors of that style by artists such as Frankenthaler, Olitski and Louis and others.

* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.

Some 20th-century literary theorists, relying less on the opposition of prose and poetry, focused on the poet as simply one who creates using language, and poetry as what the poet creates.

The 20th-century poet T. S.

The list of notable people who have been connected with the town includes John Donne, the poet, who was vicar of Sevenoaks in the 17th century, the 20th-century writer H. G. Wells and the Welsh tramp-poet W. H. Davies.

Famous people from Gochang include the 20th-century poet Midang.

Noailles was also the name of a poet in early 20th-century France:

In 1932 he published Het verboden rijk (" The Forbidden Realm ," 1932 ), a partly historical, partly magical realist novel combining the life of a 20th-century European with that of Luís de Camões, the 16th-century Portuguese poet ( author of sonnets and the epic The Lusiads ) who spent part of his life in the Orient.

Daisy Fellowes ( née Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg, ( April 29, 1890 – December 13, 1962 ), was a celebrated 20th-century society figure, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris Editor of American Harper's Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune.

Scholars have noted Straton's anthology as a strong influence on the work of 20th-century Greek poet C. P.

The original echo chamber at EMI's Abbey Road Studios improved by the late Clive Robinson as site foreman at the time of construction, his construction and engineering team perfected the echo booth at Abbey Road Studios, in London it was one of the first in the world to be specially built for recording purposes, when the studio was established in 1931 ; it remains in place and is a prime example of the early 20th-century electro-acoustic echo chamber.

The original theme song for This Old House was " Louisiana Fairy Tale ", composed by Haven Gillespie, Mitchell Parish and J. Fred Coots and performed by early 20th-century jazz artist Fats Waller.

Much of the neighborhood is composed of 19th-and early 20th-century row houses and apartment buildings.

The Adagio in G minor for violin, strings and organ continuo, is a neo-Baroque composition popularly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but composed by the 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto and based on the purported discovery of a manuscript fragment from Albinoni.

Not every 20th-century critic opined primarily on the quality of the final lines when discussing the success or failure of the poem ; Sidney Colvin, in 1920, explained that " while imagery drawn from the sculptures on Greek vases was still floating through his mind, he was able to rouse himself to a stronger effort and produce a true masterpiece in his famous Ode on a Grecian Urn.

The title is taken from the final phrase of a 20th-century poem titled " American Names " by Stephen Vincent Benet.

The Red Wheelbarrow is a poem by, and often considered the masterwork of American 20th-century writer William Carlos Williams.

Rota (" The Oath ") is an early 20th-century Polish poem and anthem, once proposed to be the Polish national anthem.

Pound's tacit insistence that this material becomes poetry because of his action in including it in a text he chose to call a poem also prefigures the attitudes and practices that underlie 20th-century Conceptual art.