Ivory, Apes and Peacocks - Huneker, James, 1857-1921 (Project Gutenberg, 2010)
The genius of Joseph Conrad -- A visit to Walt Whitman -- The buffoon of the new eternities: Jules LaForgue -- Dostoïevsky and Tolstoy, and the younger choir of Russian writers -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Music of to-day and to-morrow -- Frank Wedekind -- The magic Vermeer -- Richard Strauss at Stuttgart -- Max Liebermann and some phases of modern German art -- A musical primitive: Modeste Moussorgsky -- New plays by Hauptmann, Sudermann, and Schnitzler -- Kubin, Munch, and Gauguin: masters of hallucination -- The cult of the nuance: Lafcadio Hearn -- The melancholy of masterpieces -- The Italian futurist painters -- In the workshop of Zola -- A study of de Maupassant -- Puvis de Chavannes -- Three disagreeable girls.
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Keywords: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Music -- History and criticism; Art