American Modernism Armory Show Chicago, 1913

Paul Cézanne Four Bathers

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

Henri Matisse Le Luxe II

American Modernism Had to Deal With The Place of Internationalism The Schematic Theory What does it mean to be new?

Chicago Optimism A little uncivilized

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

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—”

Crazy quilt art

Three modes of interaction Parody The law Obscenity

Alexander Archipenko Le Repos 1911

Underlying Issues Spectacle Primitivism Difficulty Mimesis

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

Three sites of struggle Professionalism Public culture Modes of coping

Professionalism Definitions Specialization and technical innovation Self consciousness Rise of difficulty

Public Culture Mass culture Urbanization Democratization The avant-garde

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