The Armory Show at 100
Subtitle: modernism and revolution
By: edited by Marilyn Satin Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt ; Casey Nelson Blake, Senior Historian
Publisher: New-York Historical Society; in association with D. Giles
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781907804045; 9780916141264
Subjects: Modern Art; Armory Show (1913 : New York, N.Y.); History
Description: The 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (better known as the Armory Show) marked a turning point in the history of American art and culture. Organised by a small group of American artists and presented in the huge space of the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, this ambitious exhibition of 1,400 works is remembered as the moment when the American public was introduced to European avant-garde art. This interdisciplinary volume includes 31 contributions by eminent scholars, re-examining the 1913 exhibition in its historical and cultural context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A century of the armory show: modernism and myth / Marilyn Satin Kushner; title: Organizers of the armory show. Arthur B. Davies-Hero or villain? / Kimberly Orcutt; title: Walt Kuhn: Armory showman / Gail Stavitsky; title: Walter Pach: Agent of modernism / Laurette E. McCarthy; title: "So many thrills, so much excitement": Elmer MacRae's role in the Armory show / Susan G. Larkin; title: New York and the United States ca. 1913. Greenwich Village modernism: "The essence of it all was communication" / Casey Nelson Blake; title: The Armory show in the provisional city / Max Page; title: The Armory show and the transformation of American culture / Daniel H. Borus; title: Echoes of the Armory show: modern music in New York / Leon Botstein; title: The "big show" and the little galleries: Alfred Stieglitz and the search for modern art photography in 1913 / Anne McCauley; title: A "wordminded people" encounters the Armory show / Susan Hegeman; title: 1913: a feminist moment in the arts / Charles Musser; title: The exhibition. Off to the Armory show! / Didier Ottinger; title: "An explosion in a shingle factory": Marcel Duchamp's Nude descending a staircase (no. 2) / Francis M. Naumann; title: "The Cuban who outcubed the Cubists": Francis Picabia and the 1913 Armory show / Michael R. Taylor; title: Henri Matisse at the Armory show-and beyond / William C. Agee; title: Brancusi's busts: work in progress / Doïna Lemny; title: Puvis de Chavannes, pioneer and paragon of modernism / Aimée Brown Price.; title: Slouching toward modernism: American art at the Armory show / Virginia M. Mecklenburg; title: Robert Henri's manifesto / Kimberly Orcutt; title: A pre-emptive strike: John Marin and the Armory show / Martha Tedeschi; title: Morgan Russell: A "barbarian" or American avant-garde in Paris? / Marilyn Satin Kushner; title: Morton Livingston Schamberg: a short life, a major achievement / William C. Agee; title: Drawings at the armory: the currency of change and modernism / Roberta J.M. Olson; title: Revisiting editions: prints in the Armory show / Marilyn Satin Kushner; title: Responses. "Public verdict": debating modernism at the Armory show / Kimberly Orcutt; title: Cubist comedy and futurist follies: the visual culture of the Armory show / Sarah Burns; title: Traveling venues. "The great confusion": the Armory show in Chicago / Judith A. Barter; title: "Unwept, unhonored and unsung": the Armory show in Boston / Carol Troyen; title: Legacy. The legacy of the Armory show: fiasco or transformation / Barbara Haskell; title: "Creating a new epoch": American collectors and dealers and the Armory show / Avis Berman.