Research Catalog

Title

New York Dada : the Arensberg circle of artists / Francis M. Naumann.

Author

Naumann, Francis M.

Publication

• New York : Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, host institution, organizer.

Description

96 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"During the years of World War I, Louise and Walter Arensberg, wealthy collectors of modern art, opened their apartment on 67th Street off Central Park West in Manhattan to nearly nightly soirées, exciting intellectual gatherings where American poets and artists--fueled by drinks and hors d'oeuvres--intermingled with their European counterparts, most of whom fled to New York seeking refuge from the war. In the introduction to this publication, readers are invited to join a party that took place in the Arensberg apartment on the night of May 25, 1917. Most of the guests assembled there had come from the Blindman's Ball, a fancy-dress event held at Webster Hall in the East Village to celebrate the publication of The Blind Man, a vanguard periodical that was designed to serve as the voice of the newly formed Society of Independent Artists, an organization dedicated to staging annual, prize and jury-free art exhibitions in New York. The second issue of The Blind Man--which appeared just a few weeks earlier--was devoted to a defense of R. Mutt's submission of an ordinary men's urinal to the first exhibition under the provocative title Fountain, but the object had been refused from display on grounds that it was indecent and not art by any definition. The controversial artifact was secretly submitted to the exhibition by another guest at the party that evening, Marcel Duchamp, famous in America as painter of The Nude Descending a Staircase, the cause célèbre of the Armory Show of 1913"--Back Cover.

Alternative Title

Arensberg circle of artists

Subject

• Dadaism > New York (State) > New York
• Arts, Modern > 20th century

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held September 12 - November 23, 2019 at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art

Contents

Chez Arensberg / Francis M. Naumann -- New York Dada: the Arensberg circle of artists, catalogue of works exhibited -- The Arensbergs and the Arensberg apartment -- Arthur Cravan (1887-1918?) -- Jean Crotti (1878-1958) -- Charles Demuth (1883-1935) -- Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952) -- Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) -- Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) -- Mina Loy (1882-1966) -- Man Ray (1890-1976) -- Francis Picabia (1878-1953) -- Juliet Roche (1884-1982) -- Elmer Ernst Southard (1876-1920) -- Joseph Stella (1877-1946) -- Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) -- Clara Tice (1888-1973) -- Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) -- Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) -- Marius de Zayas (1880-1961) -- First exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, New York, 1917 -- New York Dada 1917-1921.

Call Number

JQE 23-420

ISBN

• 9780989549493
• 0989549496

OCLC

1122617670

Author

Naumann, Francis M., author.

Title

New York Dada : the Arensberg circle of artists / Francis M. Naumann.

Publisher

New York : Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, host institution, organizer.

Research Call Number

JQE 23-420