I need ideas for my history project. Want to help?

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<p>Ok. I have to write 6 one-page papers on influencial works from american painters, photographers, musicians, and poets. Any ideas? Who would you choose?</p>

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<p>pick some philosophical movements...like existentialism, or art movements like dada, these can be easily related to historical events at the time. and poets...try the lost generation for writers.</p>

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<p>Must they be American? That limits a little.</p>

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<p>Yeah it does.</p>

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<p>try patriotic painters/artists/musicians</p>

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<p>Man Ray.</p>

<p>He was the only American surrealist.</p>

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<p>William S. Burroughs. Do it....</p>

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<p>Oh yeah and inventors, too</p>

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<p>maybe focus on women?</p>

<p>or what about Mod in the 60s, art deco in the 20s, </p>

<p>oh....how about propoganda from wars
poems, photographes, paintings etc</p>

<p>murals</p>

<p>grafitti artists</p>

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<p>I really only know about writers- not a big visual arts person, but here are my two cents-</p>

<p>"Howl" or "America" by Allan Ginsberg
"On the Road" or "The Dharma Bums" by Jack Keroauc
Walt Whitman (transendentalism)
Robert Frost (first poet to read at a presidential inaguaration)
Rita Dove (national poet laureate for a while)
Maya Angelou (involved in the civil rights movement)
Langston Hughes (major writer of the harlem renaissance)
John Steinbeck (covered the lives of farm workers in the depression era)
Upton Sinclair (The Jungle led to the passage of the food and drug act in 1906)</p>

<p>There are also a lot of interesting social reformer photographers you could do. Lewis Hine revealed conditions of child laborers in factories around 1900. Jacob Riis uncovered the terrible state of tenement living in NYC at the turn of the century. Dorthea Lange is most known for her depression photography, and she covered Japanese-American internment as well.</p>

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<p>Oh man. Jack Keroauc. Do it. He's amazing.</p>

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<p>You guys are awesome. I've decided so far on four: Thomas Moran (hudson river school), Jasper Johns, Man Ray, and Riis. Who should I do for my last two?</p>

<p>By the way, I have to write 20 of these by the end of the year, so lay on ideas.</p>

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<p>how about t.s. eliot, hemingway, fitzgerald the whole 20s modernism movement</p>