PrimitivismH. G. Wells (1866-1946), The Time Machine (1895): Eloi vs. Morlocks

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Heart of Darkness (1899)

W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), founder of the Ballets Russes

Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian dancer

Loie Fuller (1862-1928), American dancer

Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), American dancer

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Igor Stravinsky, “Le Jeu du Rapt” (“Ritual of Abduction”) from “The Rite of Spring” (1913),Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting

Still from “The Time Machine” (2001), dir. Simon Wells (great-grandson of H. G.)

Inscription from H. G. Wellsto Joseph Conrad, in gift copy ofTales of Space and Time (1900)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

W. E. B. DuBois(1868-1963)

The Congo Free State in 1890

Grebo Mask (19th Century, Ivory Coast or Liberia)

Paul Gauguin, Parau Parau (Whispered Words, 1892) Yale University Art Gallery

Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon (1888)

Henri Matisse, “Le Bonheur de vivre” (“The Joy of Life,” 1905-06)

Pablo Picasso, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, “Bathers at Moritzburg” (1909)

Wassily Kandinsky, “Angel of the Last Judgment” (1911)

Loie Fuller (1862-1928) Isadora Duncan (1878-1927)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Danse Africaine

The low beating of the tom-toms,The slow beating of the tom-toms,

Low…slowSlow…low—

Stirs your blood.Dance!

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Marlon Brando as Col. Kurtz in “Apocalypse Now” (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Conrad’s Certificate of Competency as Master in the Merchant ServiceBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)

1882 1904

1918

Bust by Jacob EpsteinAll photos courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library