The 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (or Armory Show) marked a turning point in the history of American art and culture. Organized 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 was the moment when the American public was introduced to European avant-garde art. This outstanding interdisciplinary volume re-examines the exhibition and its historical and cultural context. It includes over thirty essays by eminent scholars across diverse fields to evoke the wider social, political, and economic climate during the 1913 show.
Authors
Marilyn Satin Kushner is Curator and Head, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections at the New-York Historical Society; Kimberly Orcutt is the Curator of American Art at the New-York Historical Society; Casey Nelson Blake is Professor of History and American Studies at Columbia University.
Contributors
William C. Agee, Professor of Art History, Hunter College, City University of New York; Judith A. Barter, Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago; Avis Berman, Writer and independent art historian; Daniel H. Borus, Professor of History, University of Rochester, New York; Leon Botstein, President, Bard College; Music Director, American Symphony Orchestra; Conductor Laureate, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; and Editor, The Musical Quarterly; Sarah Burns, Professor Emerita, Department of History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington; Barbara Haskell, Curator of Early Twentieth Century Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Susan Hegeman, Associate Professor of English, University of Florida, Gainesville; Susan G. Larkin, Independent art historian and curator; Doïna Lemny, Assistant Curator of Modern Collections, National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Laurette E. McCarthy, Independent scholar and curator; Anne McCauley, Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art, Princeton University, New Jersey; Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Charles Musser, Professor of Film Studies and American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;Francis M. Naumann, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, LLC, New York; Roberta J. M. Olson, Curator of Drawings, New-York Historical Society; Didier Ottinger, Deputy Director, National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Max Page, Professor of Architecture and History, University of Massachusetts in Amherst; Aimée Brown Price, Independent art historian and curator; Gail Stavitsky, Chief Curator, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Michael R. Taylor, Director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Martha Tedeschi, Deputy Director for Art and Research, The Art Institute of Chicago; Carol Troyen, Curator Emerita of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
