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American Modernism

American Modernism. Armory Show Chicago, 1913. Paul Cézanne Four 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.

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American Modernism

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  1. American Modernism Armory Show Chicago, 1913

  2. Paul Cézanne Four Bathers 1879-1882

  3. Pablo Picasso Woman with Mustard Pot 1910

  4. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912

  5. Seeing New York with a Cubist The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway) 1913

  6. Henri Matisse Le Luxe II 1907-08

  7. American ModernismHad to Deal With The Place of Internationalism The Schematic Theory What does it mean to be new?

  8. Chicago • Optimism • A little uncivilized

  9. 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

  10. Chicago Evening Post March 24, 1913 Colonel Henry Clay Medders of Kentucky in the Big City “Let’s see now. I had two small ones before breakfast and—”

  11. Crazy quilt art

  12. Three modes of interaction • Parody • The law • Obscenity

  13. Alexander Archipenko Le Repos 1911

  14. Underlying Issues • Spectacle • Primitivism • Difficulty • Mimesis

  15. Modernism As a Deliberate Break Moment of modernism was unmistakable Shaken faith in traditional modes Implications of this break Self-conscious modernism

  16. Three sites of struggle • Professionalism • Public culture • Modes of coping

  17. Professionalism • Definitions • Specialization and technical innovation • Self consciousness • Rise of difficulty

  18. Public Culture • Mass culture • Urbanization • Democratization • The avant-garde

  19. Modes of Coping • Finding order • Subject/object and representation • Romanticist or Classicist?

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