User:Skyadd
This is a collection of my personal favorite wikipedia articles made for the purpose of remembering information I feel relevant (and not cluttering up my internet bookmarks).
Uncategorized and otherwise random favorites located here.
Music
[edit]Billie Holiday - 1930's
Classical
[edit]Modern
[edit]Art
[edit]Styles
[edit]- Pastoral
- Baroque
- Luminism (American art style)
- Dadaism
- German Expressionism
- Streamline Moderne
- Art Deco
- Futurism
Artists
[edit]- Tamara de Lempicka - 1920's art deco painter - Woman in Green
- Thomas Hart Benton (painter). American 1940's
- Grant Wood - American Gothic. American 1940's.
- Jacques Henri Lartigue
- Brian Dettmer - Book Art. Sculpture & Mixed Media.
- Francisco Goya
- Giorgio de Chirico - Italian surrealist painter
- Giovanni Paolo Pannini - 16th cent. Italian painter, architect, set designer.
- John French Sloan
- Édouard Manet - French impressionist
- Joel-Peter Witkin - Dark surreal photographs
- Andreas Gursky - Modern photographer
- Stephen Shore - American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States.
- Diane Arbus
Literature
[edit]Genres
[edit]- Cyberpunk
- Detective fiction
- Hardboiled
- Carnivalesque
- Grotesque Body
- dark romanticism - 19th cent.: Edgar Allan Poe
- Modernist Literature
Authors
[edit]- C. S. Lewis
- Jorge Luis Borges - Spanish surrealist writer - The Library of Babel & The Book of Sand
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, Winter Dreams
- William Gibson - Neuromancer
- Flannery O'Connor
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea - Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway
- James Joyce
- Jack London - To Build a Fire, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang,
- Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis, The Trial
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick
- George Bernard Shaw
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
- Henry David Thoreau
- Gore Vidal
- Umberto Eco - The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Name of the Rose
Hardboiled Writers
[edit]Books
[edit]- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Anna Karenina
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Divine Comedy by Dante Aligliheri
- Great Expectations
- On the Road
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
- The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
- Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Little Boy Blue (novel) by Edward Bunker
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Misc.
[edit]- Epic Poetry
- Gilgamesh
- The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
- Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) by Robert Frost
- Iron John by the Brothers Grimm
- Alexithymia - difficulty describing feelings to other people.
- Anabasis - Greek term that referred to an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country. See Also: Anabasis (Xenophon)
- katabasis - Referred to a trip from the interior down to the coast, a military retreat, or descent to the underworld
Theater
[edit]- Bertolt Brecht
- Antonin Artaud - Theatre of Cruelty
- Georg Büchner - Woitzek, Danton's Death
- Harold Pinter - Characteristics
- Henrik Ibsen
Plays
[edit]- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
- Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
- Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht
- Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neil
- Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
- Six Characters in Search of an Author
- The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg
- The Wild Duck
- Three Sisters - by Anton Chekhov
- Ubu Roi
- The Birthday Party (play) by Harold Pinter
- Betrayal (play) by Harold Pinter
Opera
[edit]- Cavalleria rusticana - Opera by Pietro Mascagni
- Faust (opera)
- La Boheme by Puccini feat. Quando me n’vò
- Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
Misc.
[edit]Philosophy
[edit]- Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
- Allegory of the Cave and Theory of forms in The Republic by Plato
- Simulacrum and post-modernism in Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
People
[edit]- Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, [[]]
- Albert Camus - French Existentialist - The Stranger (novel)
- Jean-Paul Sartre - French existentialist
- Jacques Derrida - French philosopher
- Michel Foucault
- Paulo Freire - Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy
Concepts
[edit]- Hyperreality - the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures
- Ex nihilo - Latin phrase meaning "out of nothing" in creation
- Transcendentalism - 19th cent.
- Fatalism
- Predestination
- Virtue ethics - moral philosophy that emphasizes character, rather than rules or consequences, as the key element of ethical thinking
Psychology
[edit]- Carl Jung
- Edward Bernays
- Bruno Bettelheim - The Uses of Enchantment
- Jacques Lacan - psychoanalyst. Known for the Mirror stage and Name of the Father.
Concepts
[edit]- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Mnemonic peg system
- Id, ego, and super-ego
- Anima and animus
- Death drive
- psychological projection
- Schema (psychology)
- unrequited love
- obsessive love
- Value Theory - understanding how, why, and to what degree humans should or do value things
Conditions
[edit]- Asperger Syndrome
- Savant Syndrome
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Major depressive disorder
- folie à deux - ("madness of two") is a psychiatric syndrome shared by two people.
- Anhedonia - inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, and social or sexual interaction
Language & Grammar
[edit]Misc.
[edit]- Principality of Sealand
- Doppelgänger - double or look-alike of a person. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death.
- Schadenfreude - pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others
- Plutocracy - rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth
- High-yield debt - Junk Bonds