Here are some modernism works and research materials that I've collected so far - I'll continue to update and annotate this post as I find more information:
Modernist Literature
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
James Joyce's Dubliners
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Albert Camus's The Stranger
Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- note, strictly postmodern, but still displays many modernist characteristics
Modernist Poetry
Most modernist poetry (esp. the works of T.S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats) can be found (in their original editions) at
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
or
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Online Sources
Wikipedia has good overviews of most topics relating to modernism. Some more in depth sources are listed below:
Art and Architecture
John Haber's Art Reviews
A collection of reviews and essays on several dozen traditional pieces of modernist art and how they influenced art today. The essays are accompanied with reproductions of the paintings and sculptures
Decopix
Collections of photos of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings. The main site (above link) has a few essays on Art Deco and the state of architecture in the beginning of the twentieth century as well.
Victoria and Albert Museum Art Deco Study Guide
The Archer by Henry Moore
TIME Archive: reactions to modern art
The highlights of TIME magazine's coverage of modern art throughout the twentieth century.
Excerpt from The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Discusses the famous architect LeCorbusier and how efficiency and science influenced the architecture of the time.
Music
Recordings of Schoenberg's Phantasy, Op. 47, and Chamber Symphony, Op. 9 .
Literature and General
Essay on Postmodernism by Dr. Mary Klages of the University of Colorado
Modernism in Five Chapters - good overview of modernism and it's effects on modern day society.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide - Chapter 7: American Modernism, an Introduction.
Some Attributes of Modernist Literature
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