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

Billie Holiday - 1930's

Dmitri Shostakovich

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• Preposition and postposition

• 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