For and Against. Views on the International Exhibition held in New York and Chicago.
New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors Inc, 1913.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
First edition. 64 pp. 1 vols. Squarish 8vo. Stapled red wrappers. Somewhat faded on the spine, head and foot of spine rubbed with small bit of loss to head of spine, old fold. very good.
Item #346914
A collection of essays debating the merits of the artworks in the famous 1913 Armory Show of modern art, which was the first exhibition to bring Modernist art to America; it started in New York and toured Chicago and Boston.
Includes the following sections: "The Statement", "The New York Exhibition", "Letting in the Light" by Gregg in Harper's Weekly, "Hindsight and Foresight" by W.P. (Walter Pach), "The New Art" by Kevin Cox ("on 'Futurism' and 'Cubism'), "The Great Confusion" from the Chicago Evening Post, "Cubism by a Cubist" by Francis Picabia in the preface to the catalogue of his New York exhibiton (published in Camera Work, 36), "As to Futurists", "The Cubist Room" by Walter Pach, "Old and New Art" by F.J. Mather Jr. in the Nation.
The cover and title page bear John Mowbray Clarke's The New Spirit logo, used for the 1913 Armory Show. Gregg, a writer and critic associated with the Ashcan School, was the PR director for the 1913 Armory Show, and for Association of American Painters and Sculptors, who planned the exhibition.
Rare, this is the only copy we have seen on the market.
