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Writers and the Orient
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/orient/intro.htm
An online exhibition exploring the influence of the Far East on American Modernist writers. The exhibition details the experiences of writers including Ezra Pound, H.D., Wallace Stevens, Williams Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Thornton Wilder and others.
Date created: October 1996
Arthur W. Wang
Arthur W. Wang: Photographs
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/arthurwangphotos
An online exhibition celebrating the portraits taken by the distinguished book editor, Arthur W. Wang.
Date created: July 2002
Anna May Wong
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/cvvpw/
An exhibit compiling Carl Van Vechten's portraits of women including dancers, actresses, writers, artists, activists, singers, costumiers, photographers, social critics, educators, journalists, socialites, and aesthetes.
Date created: July 2003
The Illustrated Word
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/illustratedword/index.html
An online exhibition curated by Yale University undergraduate students in the Spring 2006 course “Print Culture at the Fin de Siècle.”
Date created: 2006
Illustrating Traveler
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblevents/illus.htm
An online exhibition displaying illustrated traveler's narratives and original art by travelers from the later 18th to the late 19th century.
Date created: September 1996
David Plowden
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/blplow.htm
An online exhibition of the photographer David Plowden who has documented vanishing landscapes and artifacts, forming an image of life in 20th century urban and rural America.
Date created: September 1997
Intimate Circles
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/awia/
An exhibition examining the careers and lives of women—writers, artists, publishers, performers, collaborators, and community builders—whose energies set in motion lasting aesthetic and cultural practices.
Date created: July 2003
Let It Resound
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/LetItResound/
Selections from the major genres of sheet music including minstrelsy, spiritual, ragtime, musical theater, blues, jazz, R&B, and soul genres contained within the Beinecke Library's James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection.
Date created: 2006
Langston Hughes
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/langstonhughes/web.html
An online exhibtion in observance of the centenary of the birth of Langston Hughes (1902-1967), Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist, and playwright.
Date created: February 2002
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/utopia/
An introduction to American utopias—from the first Puritan settlements to the communes of the 1960s—through literary works and manuscript collections in the Beinecke Library.
Date created: 2006
Petrarch
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brbleduc/petrarch/index.html
An online exhibition commemorating the 700th anniversary of Francesco Petrarca, the Italian Renaissance Humanist, born July 20, 1304.
Date created: September 2004
The Speculum Theologiae
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/speculum
A collaborative project created by the undergraduate students in Brian Noell's seminar "The Medieval World of Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose." The Speculum Theologiae explores the Beinecke Library's manuscript MS 416, a late thirteenth-century or early fourteenth-century collection of mnemonic devices from the Cistercian abbey of Kamp in western Germany.
Date created: Spring 2006
Witold Gombrowicz
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/gombrowicz/
A bilingual, online exhibtion in observance of the centenary of the birth of the Polish playwright and novelist Witold Gombrowicz.
Date created: 2006
Robert Penn Warren
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/bollingen/
An exhibition devoted to the Bollingen Prize, a prestigious literary honor bestowed on a poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.
Date created: 2002 (Updated biennially with each award recipient)
 
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