American Modernism Armory Show Chicago, 1913. Paul Cézanne Four Bathers 1879-1882.
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American Modernism
Armory Show
Chicago, 1913
Paul CézanneFour Bathers
1879-1882
Pablo Picasso
Woman with Mustard Pot
1910
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase
1912
Seeing New York with a Cubist
The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway)
1913
Henri Matisse
Le Luxe II
1907-08
American ModernismHad to Deal With
The Place of Internationalism
The Schematic
Theory
What does it mean to be new?
Chicago
• Optimism
• A little uncivilized
Spectacle
“Step In! No Danger! Cubist Show Now On!”• "Remember, this is the uncensored sho. It's there--there--there--on the
inside, ladies and gentlemen. It's continuous. It's different, and it's art--art of the present and the future. A thrill every minute. Something new to tickle the fancy and feast the eye."
• That was all that was needed--just a real old-fashioned bally-ho at the head of the marble staircase in [the] Art Institute yesterday--to make the first-time visitor to the international exhibition of modern art believe he had done a Rip Van Winkle act and awakened in the old Clark Street Museum.
Chicago Record-Herald, March 25, 1913
Chicago Evening PostMarch 24, 1913
Colonel Henry Clay Medders of Kentucky in the Big City
“Let’s see now. I had two small ones before breakfast and—”
Crazy quilt art
Three modes of interaction
• Parody
• The law
• Obscenity
Alexander Archipenko
Le Repos
1911
Underlying Issues
• Spectacle
• Primitivism
• Difficulty
• Mimesis
Modernism As a Deliberate Break
Moment of modernism was unmistakable
Shaken faith in traditional modes
Implications of this break
Self-conscious modernism
Three sites of struggle
• Professionalism
• Public culture
• Modes of coping
Professionalism
• Definitions
• Specialization and technical innovation
• Self consciousness
• Rise of difficulty
Public Culture
• Mass culture
• Urbanization
• Democratization
• The avant-garde
Modes of Coping
• Finding order
• Subject/object and representation
• Romanticist or Classicist?