Art History Timeline

A Selection of Significant Moments in Modernism. Date Literary / Artistic Event Other Historical Event 1872 “Impressionism” foreshadows avant-gardism 1879 Henrik Ibsen’s early feminist play A Doll’s House Edison invents the light bulb 1883 Nietzsche introduces notion of the “superman” in Thus Spake Zarathustra 1884 London Underground opens 1885 Invention of internal combustion ... ................
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