This video [2:12] This beautiful book is titled "Klange," or "Sounds." It's by Vasily Kandinsky, who was a very important painter. He also made a number of illustrated books in the early 1910s. It was published in 1913, but he actually...

D. W. Griffith was the most popular director of the silent era. During the year 1913, he made dozens of films. The most important is "The Mothering Heart", starring Lillian Gish. She is a young bride and is rather Victorian. She is...

1913 was a banner year for Leger. It was the year in which he figured out how to become a Leger instead of a follower of Picasso or Braque. He did a large series of paintings entitled "Contrast of Form". Each of these examined the ways...

In 1913 you begin to see the dawn of the narrative film with a film suspense directed by Louis Weber and Phillip Smalley. It's the story of a young mother who lives in a very remote area in a home that is also managed by their housemaid....