armory show

Lauded as one of the most influential events in the history of American art, the Armory Show has a mythic legacy that rivals the raucous opening of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Rite of Spring in Paris. In the wake of previous large independent art exhibitions in France, Germany, Italy, and England, from February 17th to March 15th, 1913, New York's 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue between 25th and 26th streets was home to approximately 1250 paintings, sculptures, and decorative works by over 300 European and American artists. While the purchase of Cézanne's Hill of the Poor by the Metropolitan Museum of Art signaled an integration of modernism into official art channels, the shock and outrage proported from Duchamp's Nude Descending the Staircase and Matisse's Luxury connected the Armory Show, officially known as The International Exhibition of Modern Art, with an historic avant-garde whose duty was to question the boundaries of art as an institution.
Reconsidering the narratives constructed by Armory Show critics, using the exhibition itself as a lens through which to evaluate their claims, is a two-fold process. The first step is to provide access to the material remnants of the Armory Show, the paintings and sculptures themselves. Though by no means complete, the tour of the Armory Show aims to present a skeleton map of the exhibition as it looked in 1913, with the 69th Regiment Armory divided into 18 individual galleries. Also included is commentary on each area of the exhibition, providing some understanding of how audiences came to see the works at the Armory. The second aspect of the project is an investigation of several widespread contentions held by Armory Show critics. The impact of these assertions on analyses of early 20th-century cultural production in America will be explored as well. These essays are an attempt to detail some of the Show's impact while offering alternatives to critical accounts of the past.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/armory/entrance.html

Exposição Internacional de Arte Moderna ou Armory Show como ficou conhecida, por ter como local de sede o arsenal (quartel) do sexagésimo nono regimento da Guarda Nacional da cidade de Nova Iorque, foi a primeira mostra de arte moderna organizada nos Estados Unidos, entre 17 de fevereiro e 15 de março de 1913.
O Armory Show foi patrocinado pela Association of American Painters and Sculptors, por iniciativa de Walter Pach, Arthur B. Davies e Walt Kuhn.
Foram exibidas mil duzentas e cinquenta obras entre pintura, escultura e arte decorativa. Desse total, cerca de trezentos trabalhos representavam a produção vanguardista europeia e americana. Os organizadores da exposição conseguiram reunir obras de Ingres, Delacroix, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet, Brancusi, Signac, Raoul Dufy, Braque, Matisse, Duchamp e outros artistas não menos famosos. Estavam , portanto, ali representados nomes ligados ao impressionismo, expressionismo, fauvismo e cubismo, o que havia de mais atual na pintura européia.
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