Bidspirit auction | American Painting From the Armory

American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression - USA, Princeton University Press, 1972. 244 pp., il., 28.8 by 21.7 cm Hardcover book in good condition and the pages inside the book are clean. Ex-Library book. In 1913, the Association of American Painters and Sculptors organised the first major international exhibition of modern art, the Armory Show, in the National Guard Armory on Lexington Avenue. It became an important event in the history of American art and aroused different emotions: surprise, admiration, indignation, adoration and complete rejection among the American public, accustomed to realism, to some extent to impressionism, but not to the avant-garde European art, which they saw at this exhibition. The 1,300 paintings, sculptures and decorative works by more than 300 contemporary European and American artists travelled not only to New York, but also to Chicago and Washington. Reviews of the exhibition were littered with accusations of immorality, unprofessionalism, madness, charlatanism, many works were called caricatures and parodies of painting, and Theodore Roosevelt said: ‘It's not art at all!’ English Edition. Rare to find.