The Weary Blues
Hughes's debut collection brought the form and beat of the blues into American poetry
- Author
- Langston Hughes
- Style
- Harlem Renaissance — The 'New Negro' speaking for himself: blues, jazz and African roots as high art
- Century
- 20th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1928–1930 Chrysler Building — William Van Alen · Art Deco · New York
- 1928–1931 Villa Savoye — Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret · Modern architecture (International Style) · Poissy, near Paris
- 1922–1931 Christ the Redeemer — Paul Landowski, Heitor da Silva Costa · Art Deco · Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro
- 1931 The Persistence of Memory — Salvador Dalí · Surrealism · Portlligat, Catalonia
- 1915 Black Square — Kazimir Malevich · Russian avant-garde · Moscow
- 1907–1908 The Kiss — Gustav Klimt · Art Nouveau · Vienna
- 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — Pablo Picasso · Cubism · Paris, Bateau-Lavoir
- 1925 The New Negro — Alain Locke (editor) · Harlem Renaissance · New York
What was happening in the world
- 1914–1918 World War I
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal
- 1915 Armenian genocide
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement
- 1917 October Revolution
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War