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.


 * user:skyadd/film

Music
Billie Holiday - 1930's

Modern
Dmitri Shostakovich

Styles

 * Pastoral
 * Baroque
 * Luminism (American art style)
 * Dadaism
 * German Expressionism
 * Streamline Moderne
 * Art Deco
 * Futurism

Artists

 * 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


 * Edward Gorey

Genres

 * Cyberpunk
 * Detective fiction
 * Hardboiled
 * Carnivalesque
 * Grotesque Body
 * dark romanticism - 19th cent.: Edgar Allan Poe
 * Modernist Literature

Authors

 * 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

 * James M. Cain
 * Raymond Chandler
 * Dashiell Hammett
 * Elmore Leonard
 * Mickey Spillane

Books

 * 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.

 * 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

 * Bertolt Brecht
 * Antonin Artaud - Theatre of Cruelty
 * Georg Büchner - Woitzek, Danton's Death
 * Harold Pinter - Characteristics
 * Henrik Ibsen

Plays

 * Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
 * Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


 * 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

 * Cavalleria rusticana - Opera by Pietro Mascagni
 * Faust (opera)
 * La Boheme by Puccini feat. Quando me n’vò
 * Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner

Misc.

 * Sturm und Drang
 * Stock character
 * Commedia dell'arte

Philosophy

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * Carl Jung
 * Edward Bernays
 * Bruno Bettelheim - The Uses of Enchantment
 * Jacques Lacan - psychoanalyst. Known for the Mirror stage and Name of the Father.

Concepts

 * 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

 * 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

 * Preposition and postposition

Misc.

 * 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