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| Chris Beekman Composition 1920 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Lovis Corinth Loves of Zeus - Antiope and Faun 1920 lithograph Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Lovis Corinth Loves of Zeus - Callisto and Zeus 1920 lithograph Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Viktor Deni Comrade Lenin sweeping away the Filth of the World 1920 lithograph (poster) Frye Art Museum, Seattle |
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| Max Ernst Le Massacre des Innocents 1920 hand-colored photograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale The Forerunner 1920 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Juan Gris Siphon and Fruit Dish 1920 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Marsden Hartley Landscape no. 3 - Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico 1920 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ludwig Hohlwein Doctor Gentner's Leather Treatment 1920 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Sergei Ivanov Long Live the Third Communist International! 1920 lithograph (poster) Frye Art Museum, Seattle |
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| Johanna Kampmann-Freund Exhibition of Art by German Women 1920 lithograph (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Fernand Léger Mechanical Apparatus 1920 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| John Nash Winter Scene, Buckinghamshire 1920 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Heinrich Nauen Still Life 1920 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Gino Severini Still Life with Brown Jug 1920 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Jacques Villon after Raymond Duchamp-Villon Baudelaire on a Pedestal 1920 etching Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Ode to the Medieval Poets
Chaucer, Langland, Douglas, Dunbar, with all your
brother Anons, how on earth did you ever manage,
without anaesthetics or plumbing,
in daily peril from witches, warlocks,
lepers, The Holy Office, foreign mercenaries
burning as they came, to write so cheerfully,
with no grimaces of self-pathos?
Long-winded you could be but not vulgar,
bawdy but not grubby, your raucous flytings
sheer high-spirited fun, whereas our makers,
beset by every creature comfort,
immune, they believe, to all superstitions,
even at their best are so often morose or
kinky, petrified by their gorgon egos.
We all ask, but I doubt if anyone
can really say why all age groups should find our
Age quite so repulsive. Without its heartless
engines, though, you could not tenant my book-shelves,
on hand to delect my ear and chuckle
my sad flesh: I would gladly just now be
turning out verses to applaud a thundery
jovial June when the judas-tree is in blossom,
but am forbidden by the knowledge
that you would have wrought them so much better.
– W.H. Auden (1971)