Einstein By Escher
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AMELIA EARHART
Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart turned record-breaking flight into a public argument for women’s independence before her disappearance transformed a life of achievement into an enduring mystery.
STEVE EARLE
Steve Earle joined country storytelling, folk protest and rock & roll defiance in songs about workers, prisoners, war, addiction and the difficult possibility of redemption.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN
Lawyer, journalist and suffragette Crystal Eastman connected women’s equality, workers’ rights, free speech and peace into a radical vision of democratic freedom.
MAX EASTMAN
Editor, philosopher and Provincetown radical Max Eastman made The Masses a meeting ground for revolutionary politics, modern art, free love and uncompromising dissent.
DUANE EDDY
Duane Eddy turned the electric guitar’s low strings, echo and open space into the unmistakable “twang” that helped define instrumental rock & roll.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Physicist and public intellectual Albert Einstein transformed humanity’s understanding of space, time and gravity while speaking forcefully against nationalism, racism and war.
SERGEI EISENSTEIN
Director Sergei Eisenstein transformed film editing into a collision of images and ideas, using montage to give silent cinema revolutionary rhythm, scale and psychological force.
ANITA EKBERG
Anita Ekberg became an international symbol of postwar cinematic glamour, immortalized by her midnight passage through the Trevi Fountain in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
BRITT EKLAND
Britt Ekland moved between international glamour, dark comedy and cult horror, becoming unforgettable as the seductive outsider at the center of The Wicker Man.
DUKE ELLINGTON
Composer and bandleader Duke Ellington treated the jazz orchestra as a world of individual voices, creating an expansive musical portrait of Black life, elegance and modern America.
CASS ELLIOT
From the Mamas & the Papas to her solo career, Cass Elliot brought wit, emotional force and an unmistakable voice to the meeting place of folk and rock & roll.
MISSY ELLIOTT
Rapper, songwriter and producer Missy Elliott fused hip-hop and R&B with elastic rhythms, surreal humor and visionary videos that expanded the possibilities of popular music.
RALPH ELLISON
In Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison transformed one man’s search for identity into a profound examination of race, ideology and the struggle to be seen in America.
FAYE EMERSON
Actor and television host Faye Emerson became one of early television’s defining personalities, bringing intelligence, glamour and spontaneous conversation into American living rooms.
BRIAN ENO
Musician, producer and systems thinker Brian Eno transformed the recording studio into a compositional instrument, reshaping alternative music through ambience, chance and creative collaboration.
JACOB EPSTEIN
Sculptor Jacob Epstein brought the monumentality of ancient art into modern portraiture and public sculpture, provoking outrage while expanding the expressive possibilities of the human form.
MAX ERNST
Max Ernst transformed accidents, dreams and invented techniques into strange forests, hybrid creatures and unstable worlds that helped define Surrealist art.
M. C. ESCHER
Graphic artist M. C. Escher transformed architecture, geometry and perspective into impossible worlds where staircases loop, reflections become landscapes and order slips into infinity.
HELGA ESTBY
In 1896, Helga Estby and her daughter walked across the United States in a desperate attempt to save their family farm, defying expectations of women while testing the promises of a changing America.
RUTH ETTING
Known as America’s Sweetheart of Song, Ruth Etting brought intimacy and emotional clarity to jazz-age recordings before her career became entangled in violence and scandal.
MEDGAR EVERS
Civil-rights organizer Medgar Evers challenged segregation and racial violence across Mississippi until his assassination made the dangers of that struggle impossible for the nation to ignore.
HONEYBOY EDWARDS
Delta bluesman David “Honeyboy” Edwards carried the sound and firsthand history of the Mississippi juke joints into the twenty-first century, preserving a direct connection to Robert Johnson and the blues at its source.
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