Charles Olson

Charles Olson

male, deceased (1970)
Harvard University alumni, Wesleyan University alumni, American, Beat Generation, Beat writer, Postmodernism…modernist poetry, modernist
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier...
Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

male, deceased (2007)
Academy Honorary Award recipient, Music video director, from Ferrara, film director, Italian, modernist
Michelangelo Antonioni was born in 1912 into a middle-class family and grew up in bourgeois surroundings of the Italian province. In Bologna he...
Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes

female, deceased (1982)
Bisexual writer, Bisexual, from the United States, American, Modernism, journalist…modernist, Modernist writer
Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English...
Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

male, deceased (1926)
lyric poetry, poet, lyric, Duino Elegies, Sonneteers, Valais…modernist
Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of...
Mina Loy

Mina Loy

female, deceased (1966)
Christian, Women poet, scientist, Playwright, novelist, English women writer…modernist poetry, modernist, Modernist writer
Mina Loy (December 27, 1882 - September 25, 1966) was an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of...
Paul Strand

Paul Strand

male, deceased (1976)
Jewish, photographer, from New York City, Jewish American, film director, Cinematographer…modernist
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like...
Charles Sheeler

Charles Sheeler

male, deceased (1965)
painter, American modernism, Precisionist, Precisionism, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Ford Motor Co.…modernist
Charles Sheeler is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the 20th century. Born in...
David Jones

David Jones

male, deceased (1974)
Writer-illustrator, roman catholic church, painter, poet, World War I poet, Companion of Honour…modernist poetry, modernist, as modernist as Joyce, Pound, or Cezanne
David Jones CH (1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both an artist and one of the most important first generation British modernist poets. His wo...
Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

female, deceased (1979)
Caribbean women writer, Modernism, dominica, alcoholism, From Dominica, West Indian…modernist
Jean Rhys, originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were...
Louis Zukofsky

Louis Zukofsky

male, deceased (1978)
Jewish, poet, writer, Jewish American, Columbia University alumni, objectivist…modernist poetry, modernist
Louis Zukofsky was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets. He was co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist...