Research Catalog

Title

The Armory Show at 100 : modernism and revolution / edited by Marilyn Satin Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt ; Casey Nelson Blake, Senior Historian.

Publication

• New York : New-York Historical Society ; London : in association with D. Giles, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kushner, Marilyn S., 1948-
• Orcutt, Kimberly
• Blake, Casey Nelson.

Description

512 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Subject

• Armory Show (1913 : New York, N.Y.) > History
• Art, Modern > 19th century > History
• Art, Modern > 21st century > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• A century of the armory show: modernism and myth / Marilyn Satin Kushner -- Organizers of the armory show. Arthur B. Davies-Hero or villain? / Kimberly Orcutt -- Walt Kuhn: Armory showman / Gail Stavitsky -- Walter Pach: Agent of modernism / Laurette E. McCarthy -- "So many thrills, so much excitement": Elmer MacRae's role in the Armory show / Susan G. Larkin -- New York and the United States ca. 1913. Greenwich Village modernism: "The essence of it all was communication" / Casey Nelson Blake -- The Armory show in the provisional city / Max Page -- The Armory show and the transformation of American culture / Daniel H. Borus -- Echoes of the Armory show: modern music in New York / Leon Botstein -- The "big show" and the little galleries: Alfred Stieglitz and the search for modern art photography in 1913 / Anne McCauley -- A "wordminded people" encounters the Armory show / Susan Hegeman -- 1913: a feminist moment in the arts / Charles Musser -- The exhibition. Off to the Armory show! / Didier Ottinger -- "An explosion in a shingle factory": Marcel Duchamp's Nude descending a staircase (no. 2) / Francis M. Naumann -- "The Cuban who outcubed the Cubists": Francis Picabia and the 1913 Armory show / Michael R. Taylor -- Henri Matisse at the Armory show-and beyond / William C. Agee -- Brancusi's busts: work in progress / Doïna Lemny -- Puvis de Chavannes, pioneer and paragon of modernism / Aimée Brown Price.
• Slouching toward modernism: American art at the Armory show / Virginia M. Mecklenburg -- Robert Henri's manifesto / Kimberly Orcutt -- A pre-emptive strike: John Marin and the Armory show / Martha Tedeschi -- Morgan Russell: A "barbarian" or American avant-garde in Paris? / Marilyn Satin Kushner -- Morton Livingston Schamberg: a short life, a major achievement / William C. Agee -- Drawings at the armory: the currency of change and modernism / Roberta J.M. Olson -- Revisiting editions: prints in the Armory show / Marilyn Satin Kushner -- Responses. "Public verdict": debating modernism at the Armory show / Kimberly Orcutt -- Cubist comedy and futurist follies: the visual culture of the Armory show / Sarah Burns -- Traveling venues. "The great confusion": the Armory show in Chicago / Judith A. Barter -- "Unwept, unhonored and unsung": the Armory show in Boston / Carol Troyen -- Legacy. The legacy of the Armory show: fiasco or transformation / Barbara Haskell -- "Creating a new epoch": American collectors and dealers and the Armory show / Avis Berman.

Call Number

JQZ 13-1503

ISBN

• 9781907804045 (hardcover edition)
• 1907804048 (hardcover edition)
• 9780916141264 (softcover edition)
• 0916141268 (softcover edition)

OCLC

857525115

Title

The Armory Show at 100 : modernism and revolution / edited by Marilyn Satin Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt ; Casey Nelson Blake, Senior Historian.

Publisher

New York : New-York Historical Society ; London : in association with D. Giles, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kushner, Marilyn S., 1948- editor.

Orcutt, Kimberly, editor.

Blake, Casey Nelson.

Research Call Number

JQZ 13-1503