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

Subjects:

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

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